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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Buck Sexton and you're listening to the

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Speaker 1: Tunor Dixon Podcast, part of the Clay Drivers and Buck

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Speaker 1: Sexton podcast Network. Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast, where

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Speaker 1: we bring you stories of great Americans. And I've met

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Speaker 1: some amazing people across the state of Michigan, and I

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Speaker 1: just feel like I need to share those people with you.

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Speaker 1: Some of them have become a part of me. And

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Speaker 1: you know, when someone finds a permanent home in your heart,

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Speaker 1: you know that that story just needs to be told.

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Speaker 1: And my guest today is definitely one of those people.

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Speaker 1: From the moment I met him, you could just feel

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Speaker 1: I think what I can only describe as this intense

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Speaker 1: energy coming from him. He's an American hero, a leader,

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Speaker 1: a top military strategist, a loving father, loyal husband, and

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Speaker 1: strong man of faith. I want to welcome the author

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Speaker 1: of Zero Percent Chance and Purple Heart recipient Major Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Turnbull to the podcast. John, Welcome to the podcast. Thank

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Speaker 1: you man. I'm really excited to be here. Well, I

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Speaker 1: am so excited to have you. I want to talk

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Speaker 1: about your book and I'm going to hold it up here.

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Speaker 1: This is such an amazing piece of work because I

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Speaker 1: think what people need to understand is this is truly

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Speaker 1: the raw, unedited story of what it is to serve

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Speaker 1: in so many ways, It's not just your story of

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Speaker 1: what you've gone through, but it really is the story

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Speaker 1: of how a military family handles these missions. I love

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Speaker 1: the way you start out the book talking about your childhood,

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Speaker 1: and something stuck out to me that I want to

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Speaker 1: go through because your parents actually took you out of school.

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Speaker 1: You said you weren't doing well in school, and if

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Speaker 1: it were today's world, you'd be medicated. You would have

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Speaker 1: been told you had add and you would be medicated

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Speaker 1: and you'd be a different person. But the add part

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Speaker 1: of you, that part of you that has that get

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Speaker 1: up and go is what drove you to really become

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Speaker 1: this American hero. Is that right? So tell me a

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Speaker 1: little bit about that. Your parents. Parents are incredibly adorable

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Speaker 1: and sweet people. Your mom is so awesome. She I

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Speaker 1: think I met her before I met you, and she

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Speaker 1: was clearly just completely in love with you and talked

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Speaker 1: your champion very young. So tell me how she made

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Speaker 1: that decision and what that was like for you. Because

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Speaker 1: you said, instead of traditional book learning, you kind of

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Speaker 1: learned by doing. Yes. My mom was a big believer

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, like a struggling in school. Attended a public

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Speaker 1: school until fourth grade. Again, it's fifth grade. When my

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Speaker 1: mom and my dad sat down, we had the conversation, like,

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Speaker 1: the public school, which was not working for me, or

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Speaker 1: me more successful that way? So that we decided, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know it's a tough question for them to tackle,

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Speaker 1: but they decided the best bet was to pull me

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Speaker 1: We did. I mean, we got into books. My mom

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Speaker 1: long as I can remember. Love's Book. So our daily school,

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Speaker 1: And my family originally came from Scotland prior to the Revolution,

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Speaker 1: fought with Bonnie Prince Charlie during the Jacobite Rebellion, and wow,

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Speaker 1: there as a as a hero for my people. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: one thing that definitely sparked it, and try and practice brevity.

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Speaker 1: The King King Robert the Bruce in that movie. Later,

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Speaker 1: name was William Rule, and King Robert the Bruce knighted

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Speaker 1: They fought, their family again, fought in War of eighteen

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Speaker 1: My paternal grandfather he fought in Vietnam and after Vietnam

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Speaker 1: oftentimes you volunteered to go out and do these missions.

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Speaker 1: they bad? So we have this long outlook and it's great.

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00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: So I just didn't like this. Also, we were removing

429
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: them from our region physically and so on the day

430
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 1: on January sixteenth and twenty nineteen, but four months into

431
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 1: my deployment, and my wife will tell you the day

432
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: after I was supposed to return home, because supposed to

433
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 1: return in January fifteenth, but we're doing such a great job.

434
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 1: My boss said, would you like to stay? And I

435
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 1: said yes, How else can I affected this amount of

436
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: change in the world and make the world a better place?

437
00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:19,679
Speaker 1: And to quote oh Oh, Kingdom of Heaven with Orlando Bloom,

438
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: one of his phrases in there, what is a man

439
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: if he does not try to make the world a

440
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: better place? And I think that's very true. Who who

441
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: are we if we do not try to make the

442
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:30,480
Speaker 1: world better place? So I had a chance, so I

443
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 1: volunteered to stay. We went to one of the schools.

444
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 1: We're going to go and talk with the kids to

445
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: see if there were any bad guys around, because kids know,

446
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: and you know, we're American military were really good at

447
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: dealing with bad guys. And went to the school, did

448
00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 1: all the fifth pumps with all the little girls at school,

449
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: and that's why Shannon was so happy. We went back

450
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: to our trucks to get ready after the end of

451
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: our mission. So finished our routine combat patrol, get back

452
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: to our trucks and we're going through a simple patrol

453
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: brief where we were going, how long it is going

454
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: to take, what we're gonna do, why we were doing it,

455
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: and just you know, just kind of given clearing the field,

456
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: let everybody knows what's going on. At which time the

457
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: suicide bomber walk up and just I mean, the luck

458
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:25,080
Speaker 1: of this individual should not have happened. We had security.

459
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: You know, I can't explain how it happened, if he

460
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: sneaked through or if he was you know, he wasn't

461
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: a genie, just poofy was there, but something like that.

462
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: But I do remember yet getting getting ready, getting my vehicle.

463
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: It was remember seeing Shannon's smiling because she was going

464
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,720
Speaker 1: to tell her boys, Mommy has done something really good.

465
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,479
Speaker 1: Girls from back to school. Kids are happy and healthful

466
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: and safe. And at the same time, I remember seeing

467
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: a chief corn Officers Special Forces guys with the toughest

468
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: of the tough. His name is John Farmer. Guy. I'm

469
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: pretty sure eight nails for breakfast. He was just that tough,

470
00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: just big guy. He was bouncing on his feet back

471
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: and forth, making a little twirly motion with his finger bouncing.

472
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: I can rebody language. He had to go to the

473
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:10,719
Speaker 1: bathroom and trolling his finger. He was saying, turnbull, hurry

474
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: it up, let's go so I can go back home,

475
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, and I can call my wife

476
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: and my kids and tell them how their daddy's a hero.

477
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: And it was at the exact time that the suicide

478
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: bomber walked between them both and detonated his vest, and yeah,

479
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: ruined first day of my life. Ruined the lives of

480
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: four families, And rather than focusing on that negative and

481
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: sad stuff, I decided to focus on the positive things.

482
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: I decided my mission was now to cheer up the families,

483
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: because you can't replace that kind of loss. It's it's

484
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: horrible and I don't want to replace it. But rather

485
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: than focusing on that, I remember that, as mentioned in

486
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: my book, my linguist who was killed, her name was

487
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,160
Speaker 1: Goodeer to hear her to as Jasmine, just easier to saying.

488
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: She kind of looked like the princess anyway, but she yes,

489
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,439
Speaker 1: there's a picture, so I beautiful woman. But I always

490
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 1: remember her mom was like we met her and she

491
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: was crying, and she asked me to said, John, why

492
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: are you here? And why is my daughter not here?

493
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: What did she do that made somebody want to kill her?

494
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: And again, rather than focusing on the negatives, we spent

495
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 1: a whole day together. And I actually get to spend

496
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: the opportunity with her in April. I'm really excited. I'm like,

497
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: rather than focusing on the bad things, let me tell

498
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: you how she lived, let me tell you about how

499
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: fiery and feisty her daughter was. And I talked about

500
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: in the book not Given Way all my secrets, But

501
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: my favorite thing was we were talking about we were

502
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: going into a room that hadn't been a bathroom that

503
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: hadn't been opened since ISIS had left the area, since

504
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: we had removed them. They boarded it up and they

505
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: wrote mines on the door, so saying that the room

506
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: was had bombs in it. So we're brief in it,

507
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: and I had explosive ordinance to Marines, got by name it,

508
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,000
Speaker 1: Darius and Jared. They're briefing and as we're talking through

509
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: it Jasmine stuff, She's like, all right, guys, before we

510
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: go in, She's like, make sure you partner up with

511
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: the EOD guys, because I don't want any of you

512
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: to kick off a booby trap. I remember, I was like,

513
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: wait a minute, sorry for the profanity. Best I did

514
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: anybody just hear that? Like what it's like? Did you

515
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: guys just hear Jasmine? She said booby And she slapped

516
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: me and told me to grow up. But fun things

517
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: like that, like and you do mention that you make

518
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: a lot of people laugh in the bug, which you do.

519
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: You are very I got it. Have some fun and

520
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: if we can't laugh at the situations, especially the situations

521
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: we find ourselves in, and what's the point. So that's

522
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: why I wrote the book for this woman's name was Amina,

523
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 1: Jasmine's mom, and then for a little tiny girl who

524
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 1: right after while I was in the hospital, she heard

525
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: she was John Farmer's daughter who I mentioned earlier, the

526
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: Special Forces guy. Her name is Priscilla. Remember her asking me,

527
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: Uncle John, you're my daddy's boss. I was like, yep,

528
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm your daddy's boss. She's like, can you order him

529
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: to come home for Christmas? I missed my daddy. I

530
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: was like, oh God, and like I don't know what

531
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: to do. And her mom is the most amazing woman ever.

532
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: She's just like, John, just be tough. She's like, you'd

533
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: be tough, you'd be tough for my John. John won't

534
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: want you to cry. John wants you to to be strong.

535
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, ma'am. And so I wrote the book

536
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 1: as a series of letters to the family members, being like,

537
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: once again, let me tell you how they lived. The

538
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: funny things, happy things, the things did run working out

539
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: on the play is going through the mentioned Joe Kent earlier.

540
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: I remember sitting down with them while I was at

541
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: the hospital again. He sat down with us so we

542
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: were able to talk with him, and I was like, hey,

543
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: did she send home? I mean, I'm gonna probably low

544
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: ball the number, but like a thousand scarves. And he's like, oh,

545
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: dear Lord, Yes, she sent home boxes and boxes and scarves.

546
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: And I'm like, we're sorry. She would go into town

547
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: and she picked up food for us, like hamburgers or

548
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: something fantastic. Is always Shoma, but the best you could find.

549
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: She'd bring it to us, and she wouldn't let us pay.

550
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: She was she was like a like a mother figure.

551
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: She had to take care of her take care of

552
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: her boys, so she was always there given us food

553
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: and she wouldn't loves to pay for it. But she

554
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: loved scarves, so we would buy her scarves from the

555
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: local market and we would pay her in scarves and

556
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:56,800
Speaker 1: sales Campan. I was like, sorry, Joe about all those scarves. Yeah,

557
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: I helped the Serian economy quite well with the scar

558
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: of making and give em. But that was the point.

559
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 1: And then I was like, I want Shannon's boys, Josh

560
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 1: and Colton. I want them when they grew up, because

561
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: they were I mean they were babies when Shannon was

562
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: killed very little ones, and I want them if they

563
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: don't remember their mom, I want them to have something

564
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: they could be like that was my mom. And the

565
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: same thing with Priscilla and her brother Preston, who are

566
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,719
Speaker 1: now eight or nine years old of them when they

567
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: grew up too. If they can't remember, like I don't

568
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: remember what my daddy was like, let me tell you

569
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: what your daddy was like. And it's this book. Zero

570
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: percent chance it was written for these four families. Saw

571
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: multiple letters. We ended up putting them together chronologically to

572
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: outline the deployment. But then it gets into after the explosion.

573
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: Explosion which killed four Americans, killed Chief one Officer John Farmer,

574
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 1: Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, killed Petty Officer second Class

575
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: Scott Wurtz, and Miss Gadeer to Hear also known as

576
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: Jasmine to our friends and family. These four people. It

577
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: also killed nineteen Syrians that day. So we traveled with

578
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: eight soldiers on my team. Immediately half of my team

579
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: was killed. Myself, I was blown to the ground. My

580
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 1: right eye. You can see the flap I have over here.

581
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: It's a skip and flap holding my face together. Right

582
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: eye was blown out of my head. My left eye

583
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: was punctured pretty badly. Shrapnel wounds were really gross, and

584
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: I'll go the word ikey. Two other soldiers were also wounded,

585
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: a guy by the name of Devin, and then another

586
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: guy by the name of Jail. And then we had

587
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: one soldier who was uninjured physically, uninjured, spiritually and mentally.

588
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: Was That's where his assault came because he had to

589
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: pick up body parts after the explosion. Falls being said.

590
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: A few hours later, Americans landed. We called in an

591
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: immediate METAVAC request for help medical evacuation MEDIVAC. Helicopter landed.

592
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: Is my boss, that colonel I told you about earlier,

593
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: who is in charge of the whole area. He landed,

594
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: big early American like probably one of the greatest leaders.

595
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: I've ever met a person. When I grew up, I

596
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: want to be just like him. Great person landed. They

597
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 1: found me, They found me two guys that were wounded,

598
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: and they evacuated us to another spot in Syria than

599
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: to a rock. I went from a rock to Turkey,

600
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: or we're not to Turkey, excuse me, to Germany. And

601
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: after a few weeks in Germany the past I went

602
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: to read National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, right

603
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: outside of BC, where I spent well, I think I

604
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: want to stop you here because I think it's important

605
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: to mention that what you did to bring medical services

606
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: to that area in Syria actually saved your life as well,

607
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 1: because it was one of the ambulances that you brought

608
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,319
Speaker 1: in that you actually were taken out. In correct. Yes, yeah,

609
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: so the way things I mean, we didn't. You never

610
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,359
Speaker 1: plan for things, but you always the sun sus said,

611
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, you pray, pray for the best, prepare for

612
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: the worst. Paraphrasing it's a really bad paraphrase, but you understand,

613
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 1: I mean the reason we write death letters home and stuff.

614
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: But yes, I was we provided ambulance of service to

615
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: the region. Um, the British actually provided the ambulances and

616
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: then so we were put I was put into it ambulance.

617
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: I was taken to the hospital that we rebuilt, and

618
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: we worked with the Germans. The Germans provided a whole

619
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: bunch of equipment, extra machines, ultrasound machines, surgical equipment, all

620
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: the stuff you needed. Uh. And then American State Department,

621
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: our State Department provided brought doctors and who taught triage

622
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: so who lives, who dies? How do you fix up

623
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 1: wounds for this? And also how to package up people

624
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 1: in case things are so bad they can't stay there

625
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: that they need to go somewhere else. So I was

626
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: in an ambulance and went to the er in this

627
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: hospital where the equipment we had brought in. They worked

628
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: on us. The doctors who had the training from American

629
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: doctors fixed me up and I came in landed in

630
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: a specially made area. I'm gonna make it try and

631
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: make it sound really cool. Special Forces guys set up

632
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: a helicopter landing Zone HLZ for hot extract. Hot means

633
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: stuff happening. There's combat, things are bad, but it's safe.

634
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: Number help black Hawk helicopter to land. People got out,

635
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: And I try to make it sound really cool. It

636
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: was a soccer field, but I mean, I mean, it's

637
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: pretty amazing to think about it. And at this time,

638
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hold up your book one more time,

639
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: because at this time, this is when you hear the

640
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: doctor say he gives you a zero percent chance. Then

641
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: that's why you named the book zero percent. Ye. Through

642
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: the through the two years I spent in my recovery,

643
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: I was giving a zero percent chance so many times.

644
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: And I'm not going to bash any of her doctors,

645
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna I'll make fun of them though

646
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 1: they weren't wrong. I on my flight from Syria to Iraq,

647
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: my heart rate went to zero and my respirations went

648
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: to zero, which I guess medically that's considered dead. I

649
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: even have a time of death written in my medical records.

650
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: Not good for the life insurance policy, but that's not

651
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: here there. So I died. The surgeon was amazing. The

652
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: surgeon was like, all right, Termbull's dead. There were other

653
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: people in the airplane. Work on these other guys, fix

654
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: them up. This guy, you know as a flight surgeon,

655
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: has been to college for upteen years and you know,

656
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: the best of the best. But there was a young

657
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: man on that flight, and let's go with his first name.

658
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: His name was first name is Cory. A specialist, so

659
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: not an officer, not even even ann commission officer, a

660
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: low ranking soldier. I was a medic, and he got

661
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: it under his skin. He's just like, oh yeah, He's like,

662
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 1: let me show you what you're You know, your your

663
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: pad didn't teach you and he's like, not breathing whatever,

664
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: So would you breast heart not beating the trust com

665
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,840
Speaker 1: that's called CPR. This young man and I ingest, but

666
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: this young man did CPR on me for four hours,

667
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: the whole flight it took to get from Syria into

668
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: a rock and by the time we landed, I was

669
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: breathing on my own and my heart rate had turned.

670
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: So it was Corey, in my opinion, was an angel

671
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: sent by God, or he was for sure an individual

672
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: sent by God given the stamina to perform CPR for

673
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 1: four hours. Like who does that stamina? The stubbornness, termination,

674
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: to nacity, all these you know, adjectives to describe this guy,

675
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: and they wheeled me off and again that you know.

676
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: The doctor gave his report to or the flight surgeon,

677
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: season gave his report to the hospital doctor and Baghdad,

678
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: and the hospital doctor and Baghdad. His name was Kyle.

679
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: I asked what was wrong with this guy because he's like,

680
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: you're pretty ugly. I'm like, I've always been ugly. He's like, nah,

681
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: you're you were missing your face and I was like,

682
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: that's pretty bad. But he said the flight surgeon said,

683
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: turnbull died on the flight over. He's like he's not

684
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: gonna make it. He's like, I'm giving him zero percent

685
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: chance of surviving twenty four hours. So Kyle, you know,

686
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: cracked his knuckles and we can't drink downrange. So I

687
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: mean he said it's a phrase, but said here, hold

688
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 1: my beer and started to work on me. And I

689
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: later was able to meet Kyle in my hospital room.

690
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 1: And while he was in my room, Samantha, my wife,

691
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: was there, and remember him telling her. He was like,

692
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: you can't be here and she's like, oh, I can't.

693
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: He's like, no, you can't be here. She's like, I'm sorry,

694
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: are you guys gonna talk like secret stuff? I can leave.

695
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: He's like no, no, no, no no no. He's like no,

696
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: you like, there's no way you can be here because

697
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: there's no way John's here. He's like he's dead. Like

698
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: John couldn't have survived. He's saying what I saw, there's

699
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: no way John survived. And this guy opened up to

700
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: me and said, John, there's one reason why he survived.

701
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: And we have a few seconds to get mushied about it.

702
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: He's like, before the explosions, like John, I was an atheist.

703
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: I didn't believe in God. I was a doctor, you know,

704
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: like a surgeon, a great certain there's no God. He's like,

705
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: but this bomb happened, I had a piece of TRAPM

706
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 1: I go into my iliac artery in my groin. This

707
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: doctor happened to specialize in of all things arteries and

708
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: you know, arterial repair, artery stuff, stuff with your arteries.

709
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: He was the one doctor in the middle league, in

710
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: the middle league, especially in our of our conflict, the

711
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: one doctor that could save my life with my artery

712
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 1: being torn open. So he's like, John, I we fixed

713
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: you up. And they sat back and I was like,

714
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 1: how did you know? This explosion happened to this one guy?

715
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: And he was flown all over these different places and

716
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: he comes to me by by chance. He's like, no,

717
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: such things a chance. It's like if it weren't for

718
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: the Father above, He's like, I would have never you

719
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:46,800
Speaker 1: would have never come to me. You'd have just died

720
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: with anybody else, you would have died. It's like socited

721
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: to sit back. He's like, in that moment, it's like

722
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: I became a Christian. I remember some of the Bible

723
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: stories that I heard about Jesus and how Jesus helped

724
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 1: everything out. And he's like in that one moment I

725
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: knew there was a god. He's like, I prade necessary

726
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: sorry for what you know, for denying you all this time.

727
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: It's like thank you. It's like, John, you were injured.

728
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: It's like I don't want to see injured, just from

729
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: but it's like, thank you. You've saved me, You've saved

730
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: my family. He's like, and I can go on living.

731
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 1: He's put that so just absolutely amazing. But he still

732
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: couldn't believe. He kept touching me, like he kept like

733
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: hitting men. I'm like, what are you doing. He's like,

734
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: seeing if you're real. I'm like, I'm real. He's like,

735
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: you're not to head, Like I don't think so. I

736
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: mean like I lost my eyesight so I can't see,

737
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 1: so I can't really verify that I'm here on earth.

738
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: But I mean, like sounds, smells, We're good. But it

739
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: was amazing, Um, all these people were coming like and

740
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: that's the second part of the book. He's talking about

741
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: the people that came together America. Americans are amazing. We're amazing.

742
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: What makes some amazing is that we care and we

743
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: care about each other. I think that you probably saw

744
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: a side of President Trump that people talk about what

745
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: we don't really hear about. So I definitely want you

746
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 1: to share that my caveat is everything I'm about to say,

747
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: and everything that I have said is unclassified to the

748
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:22,760
Speaker 1: best of my knowledge. Yeah, so now we're all covered.

749
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,919
Speaker 1: So and I say, when listening in, this is all unclassified,

750
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: so you don't have to listen. But President Trump came

751
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:36,439
Speaker 1: to visit me a few days after the explosion, came

752
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: to the hospital. I was in the ICU, and I

753
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: was really sick. My wife said that I was fluens

754
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: were coming out of me, not just both ends, but

755
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: like literally out of me, like all and gushing, and

756
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: it was it was ikey. President Trump met with my

757
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: two soldiers that were also wounded, and that they just

758
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: kept talking about this guy, kept talking about Captain John Turnbull,

759
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: their leader. Like, mister President, you've got to meet him.

760
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: He loves you and he thinks you're awesome. So President Trump,

761
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: you know, came up to my room in the ICU,

762
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: and in order to gain access to a room, you

763
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: have to ask permission to enter. My wife, Samantha was there,

764
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: and so he's like, may I enter your husband's room?

765
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: This woman, she says no, and he was taking quite

766
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: a bit back and he's like, no, She's like, it's president.

767
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: In all honesty, John has I had the flu type

768
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: whatever influenza. I had ecola. I was coughing up blood.

769
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: I had chunks of metal coming out of me. My

770
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: gups were played open. Say, John's in a bad place.

771
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: He had a breathing tube. And even she's like, if

772
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: I law you in there to meet him and he

773
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: can't talk with you, he'll be crushed. Say so, mister president,

774
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: can you please come back? My wife turned him away.

775
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 1: All but it gets better. He comes back. Yeah, she's

776
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: she's amazing. Um. But in November of twenty yeah, it's

777
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So November of twenty twenty, during his re

778
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:14,919
Speaker 1: election campaign. I had my very last surgery. I had.

779
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: I've all stuff done and I mean you can see eyeball,

780
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: it's a prospect. Had an ear replacement, the cochlear implant.

781
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: I had my bilateral incision on my stomach, a abdominal

782
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: wall reconstruction. That was some pretty rough shape. But as

783
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: my last surgery, yeah, I'd made it. I defeated the

784
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: odds a zero percent chance, zero percent chance. When I survived,

785
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: it's one hundred percent got at work. So, you know,

786
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: like as I was all excited, we're getting ready to

787
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: leave the hospital, and I didn't, you know, have doctors

788
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: signed my report card, you know, my hall pass, so

789
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: to speak. And one of them said, no, you're not

790
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: allowed to leave. And I was like why not. He's like,

791
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a direct order. You cannot leave until

792
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: the state and time tomorrow morning at nine o'clock or

793
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: whatever time it was. I would needs you to report

794
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: the gymnasium. Do not bring a cell phone, Do not

795
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: bring any cameras, don't bring any recording devices, iPads, any

796
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: of that stuff. Computers to show up, just in your

797
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: clothes and we'll beat. Something's going to happen. You're like,

798
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: all right, cool. So my wife and I walk down

799
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: to the gym. It's the place I love because I'm

800
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: an army guy, like working out. When to the gym,

801
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: they ram the pipe cleaners up my nose, you know,

802
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: checking for COVID, COVID clean They I walked through a

803
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: metal detector. Yeah, pipe cleaners look like COVID because I'll

804
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: SAYD my nose, where you done having stuff in there? Deep?

805
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: But we go in there, get padded down, no cell phones,

806
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: no technology. Wait around with about twenty or so other

807
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,240
Speaker 1: veterans or soldiers that were there being treated. When President

808
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: Trump walks into the room, we're all like, Who's what's

809
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: going on? Very first thing President Trump says, he's like,

810
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:05,439
Speaker 1: I bet you guys wonder why I say you can't

811
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: have cell phones? Camera's eyes. It's like, you're not gonna.

812
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: I don't want you to have any recording devices for this.

813
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: He's like, you don't see any news agency here. Nobody's

814
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: taking pictures except for official White House photographers are taking pictures.

815
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,879
Speaker 1: But he's like, I have a reason. It's like, this

816
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: isn't about re election, you know, Donald Trump's re election campaign.

817
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't want the American people to see

818
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: all over the news look at him going and schoozing

819
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: with wounded warriors. He's like, Nope, it's not why I'm

820
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 1: doing this. He's like, I'm here on behalf of Donald Trump,

821
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: the Trump family and the American people. Is like, I

822
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: just want to tell you guys, thank you for your service,

823
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: and come around and shake our hands. So that was

824
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: his why we didn't have phones. During his reelection, he

825
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: was there to meet with us and spent time with

826
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: this one on one. He talked with everybody for about

827
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,280
Speaker 1: five minutes, listen to what they had to say. He listened,

828
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: he didn't just hear them, responded in kind and it

829
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: was fabulous. And he got to My wife and I

830
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: were the very last ones. So they're running out of time,

831
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: you know, helicopters, rotors are spinning, getting ready to take off,

832
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,280
Speaker 1: like he had to get out of there. We started

833
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: talking and this guy is the most amazing individual. I

834
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: mentioned John Farmer's two youngest children, President Priscilla earlier. They

835
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,720
Speaker 1: met President Trump when John was brought home to Dover

836
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,800
Speaker 1: and he's returned to his family. President Trump was there, helped,

837
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: you know, shook hands with the families, hugged the kids.

838
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: So he met them real briefly. President Trump walks up

839
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: to me and my wife, Samantha, and he says, you know,

840
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: they start reading my buyout buyoull being like John Turnbull

841
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: was injured in and President Trump said, stopped, told stop.

842
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 1: He's like I remember twenty nineteen right early, Like yes,

843
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: mister president, he's like suicide bombing, Like yes, mister President.

844
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,920
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm gonna ask you some real tough questions

845
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: like what's up, mister president. He's like, how are President

846
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Speaker 1: Priscilla doing? John Farmer's kids? I mean, who is this guy?

847
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Speaker 1: Like one, how does he remember their names? And all

848
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: of our liberal friends out there? And be like he

849
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: didn't remember him? He asked, you know, he had held

850
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: headphones and somebody was prompting it. If that's the case, yes,

851
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: I will agree with you. He was prompted on it.

852
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: But how does he know what to be prompted on?

853
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: Do they know this stuff? No? He told them to

854
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,839
Speaker 1: pay when I meet Turnbull brought me on this, so

855
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: that was his priority. He wanted to know about the families.

856
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: So we talked about the families and how they were doing,

857
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: and the kids were struggling at the time, and he

858
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: got really choked up when I was like, oh, they

859
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: you know when I asked him, asked me to have

860
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: her daddy come home for Christmas, and he's like, he

861
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: is home, and he's in Arlington, but he's he's home

862
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: and here and here. He's like, can you tell them

863
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: that and tell him that you know, Uncle Donald Trump

864
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: loves them and if they need anything, they call and

865
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: they have and he's good to it with his word.

866
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:57,959
Speaker 1: But if I can tell you one other real quick

867
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Speaker 1: story about him that was really funny. So in the

868
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: middle of this campaign, um we remember how you know,

869
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: campaign have their ups and their downs. I think that

870
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,720
Speaker 1: around this time he's having one of his downs. Um So,

871
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:15,399
Speaker 1: I mean much like yourself when we met. I mean,

872
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: you didn't have any downs. You're you're always on top

873
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 1: of my opinion. But I like it. You're just like, hey,

874
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: you know, tell tell me something nice. Let's uh, you know,

875
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,839
Speaker 1: let's let's have some fun. Let's have some laughter. Can

876
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: tell me something nice. President Trump said the same thing.

877
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: He's like John, He's like having a rough time of this.

878
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: It's like the news just beating me up. Tell me

879
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 1: something good. I remember its own. It was like, mister President,

880
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: my wife's it's pregnant. We were expecting our second child

881
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: and about one or two months and he's like what

882
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: I was, like, my wife's pregnant. He's like everybody because everybody,

883
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of people crowding rounds, everybody quiet.

884
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: It's like, say it again. It's like, seems like I'm

885
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: expecting mister president. He's like this. It's like, this is

886
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: what I wanted to hear. This is amazing. He's like,

887
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 1: but John, how did this happen in my beautiful life?

888
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: Seems to president if you don't don't know by now

889
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: it's too late, which got everybody laughing about it. And

890
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: you know he laughed. But that this man, and this

891
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,560
Speaker 1: is the man Donald Trump that we know, all that

892
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,560
Speaker 1: we met. He told us that. He's like, I've got

893
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 1: to do something for them. He's like, right on your notepad,

894
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: do something for the trembles. This is great, which is

895
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 1: just wonderful to have, you know, congratulations from the president

896
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: especially you know the man, you know, this really evil man,

897
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 1: you know, mean man that the news portrays. You know,

898
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: he's just very kind, magnanimous, a wonderful, humble individual. U

899
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,879
Speaker 1: he it was the President Trump that we've seen. He's

900
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: not all talk. I mean, he talks a big game,

901
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: but he delivers. The next day we were able to leave.

902
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: Once again it's going out and getting all these signatures.

903
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: The same doctor that was like, uh, go to the gym,

904
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 1: told me again, go first to the did it, go

905
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: to the presidential wing of Walter Reed and then I'll

906
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: give you your signature. So we go up there and

907
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: we're like we are reading up here. His aid. President

908
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: Trump's aid was there's like, oh, President Trump left you this,

909
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 1: and he gave us a pewter plate with the presidential

910
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 1: seal in the middle of it. And I like to

911
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: tell my wife that there's also a lipstick kiss on

912
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: it from Milania. She says it's not there. But now

913
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: I know who the real blind one is. It's her.

914
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: But he left us stat with a little note saying

915
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: thank you. I loved being with you guys like you

916
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 1: guys are Americas what America you know needs? Thank you,

917
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Just this very generous left us

918
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: a really cool plate. But it wasn't just that. When

919
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: we'd gotten home, we drove back to North Carolina. Within

920
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: a day or so, we had a big box from

921
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: the White House on our front porch which had a

922
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:00,080
Speaker 1: rattle in it, a little stuffed animal bear, and a

923
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: bunch of another note from President Trump just being like, hey,

924
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: thank you so much for what you told me. I mean,

925
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 1: this guy was incredible, and we were told were like

926
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: James President, you know, like because he asked everyone there.

927
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, what can I do to make Walter

928
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: read the medical hospital? What can I do to make

929
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: it better. Okay, you didn't make the army better? Is

930
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,000
Speaker 1: there any suggestions for making America better or making the

931
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: world better? And I love I love this how his

932
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:28,240
Speaker 1: approach to us. And I remember you're like, well, mister President,

933
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: like honestly, fire your social media team because they suck.

934
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 1: Oh and he's like, hey, hi, yeah yeah. I was like,

935
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: because if America could see you like this, like we

936
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 1: see you right now, I was like, you don't have

937
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:46,320
Speaker 1: to run for reelection. We will demand that you be reelected.

938
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you know. And we hear so many stories

939
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: like that about the true Donald Trump. And I am

940
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: so grateful to you that you shared this with us

941
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: because I think people need to hear that this is

942
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,479
Speaker 1: the time type of stuff that he does. And he's

943
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,160
Speaker 1: not asking for credit. No, he was not, and he's

944
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: you know, he didn't waive it. Like the news that

945
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: did come out from it was somebody snapped a picture

946
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: of him getting on to Air Force one helicopter and

947
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: you get the road to wash that was blowing down

948
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: really hard. His mess went down below his nose. So

949
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,319
Speaker 1: what did the news hit up Donald Trump? You know

950
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: at the hospital not warn his mask? Right? Really, guys,

951
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:30,240
Speaker 1: come on Now, let's you know you're always liked um

952
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: the was the show a crossfire with those the guys

953
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: on SEM. They brought on John Stewart one time, and

954
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: Don Sturt said, the best thing I loved it rerepped

955
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,919
Speaker 1: for a crossfire was canceled. He said, stop you're hurting America.

956
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:48,919
Speaker 1: Let's come together, Let's build up America. It's positive. Stop

957
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: hurting America. And that's I mean, every day it changed

958
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: to go on talk with those folks. I would want

959
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: to be like John Stuart and say, all right, let's

960
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: stop say something good. I mean, how hard it is

961
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: to say something positive? I mean, you can you can

962
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: turn everything negative and be like, oh, you know, it's

963
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:08,439
Speaker 1: it's so gross outside it's twenty degrees out. Well, it's

964
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: you know, we're alive and the sun is shining. Let's

965
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: be positive about it. And that's what I loved about

966
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: my journey was the positivity maintained. I've always maintained a

967
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: positivity journal rather than you know, every time I think

968
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:24,759
Speaker 1: it's something bad or sad, I try to replace a

969
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: sad thought or bad thought two positive ones something fun.

970
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: And that's how it came out with the book. Rather

971
00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 1: than focusing on negative. Let's be positive and we can

972
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 1: make a world a better place. I think that's a

973
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: good principle that all people. Thank you, and that is

974
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: why I wanted to share you with as many people

975
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: as I could, because that's exactly what I felt when

976
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 1: I met you and reading this book, I really I'm

977
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: going to hold it up again. Zero percent Chance. It

978
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: is a page turner. You can't put it down. You

979
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 1: You're so honest and open and just like you are today,

980
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: That's why the people to hear from you, because you

981
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,319
Speaker 1: tell the story that a lot of our veterans can't tell.

982
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: So I appreciate that you were willing to share this

983
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: with us today. Thank you, Major Jonathan Turnbull, author of

984
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 1: Zero Percent Chance. I hope everybody goes out and gets

985
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,399
Speaker 1: their own copy because this is really a true, raw

986
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,400
Speaker 1: story about the lives of our service members and the

987
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: sacrifices that you all make for us. Thank you so

988
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: much for joining me today on the Tutor Dixon Podcast.

989
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: For all of the people that are listening for this

990
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Speaker 1: episode and others, go to Tutor Dison podcast dot com.

991
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Speaker 1: You can subscribe right there and join me next time

992
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: on the Tutor Dixon podcast, have a great day, and

993
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: major thank you so much for joining me