Mike Drop Podcast: Episode 54 - Mike Day

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Ritland interviews Mike Day, a retired Navy SEAL who survived being shot 27 times during a deployment. Day recounts his difficult childhood with an abusive, schizophrenic father, his path into the SEAL Teams at age 17, multiple BUD/S rollovers, seven years at SEAL Team Three, and his three years on the Navy parachute demonstration team where he experienced nine parachute malfunctions and cutaways.

Key takeaways

• Day describes surviving 27 gunshot wounds—16 to the body and 11 absorbed by body armor—according to his account, explaining that rounds hitting armor broke ribs despite stopping penetration
• Day attributes his success in BUD/S partly to growing up in an abusive, highly structured environment with his father, who Day says beat him and his siblings regularly before being hospitalized for schizophrenia when Day was 12
• Day recounts nine parachute cutaways during his career, including several dangerous malfunctions on the Navy parachute team caused by wind shear, line failures, and canopy wraps during formation work

Episode details: published March 20, 2020 · 771.7K views · 2:06:48 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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