Army Ranger K9 Police Officer Jon Lindsey Part Two | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 151

About this video

Jon Lindsey, an Army Ranger turned K9 police officer, recounts his transition from military service to law enforcement in Savannah. He describes challenges during his police academy training and early patrol experience, including medical interventions using his combat medic skills, foot pursuits, and physical confrontations. Lindsey details his path to becoming a K9 handler, working with a difficult Belgian Malinois named Hus, and reflects on the differences between military and civilian law enforcement culture.

Key takeaways

• Lindsey transitioned from Army Ranger K9 handler to civilian police officer in Savannah after completing a 12-week law enforcement K9 training course.
• He found himself frequently applying combat medic skills on patrol, including nearly performing an emergency needle decompression on a shooting victim with a tension pneumothorax.
• Lindsey describes significant gaps in police academy training, particularly in firearms (only one week of training in an 11-week academy) and hand-to-hand combat skills.
• He became a K9 handler with a challenging dog named Hus after approximately two years as a patrol officer, drawing on his military K9 experience.

Episode details: published August 27, 2023 · 24.9K views · 1:39:30 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Stories told by Mike Ritland’s podcast guests are the guests’ own accounts, attributed to them — not independently verified. Commentary is Ritland’s, presented as his analysis.

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