My PJ School Roommate | Mike Drop Clip - Episode 148

About this video

A guest recounts the unusual experience of becoming roommates with his father at age 21 during pararescue training. He explains that his father had re-enlisted in the Air Force to become a PJ about 20 years after his original service, which coincided with his parents’ divorce. The guest describes how they shared a dorm bathroom for six months during training, the unresolved tension from the divorce they avoided discussing, and eventually training and jumping together before deploying to different locations due to military regulations.

Key takeaways

• The guest’s father left his mother and re-enlisted as a PJ when the guest was 20, eventually becoming his roommate during training at age 21
• The guest acknowledges they should have discussed the divorce openly, advising listeners that burying conflict leads to resentment rather than resolution
• Air Force regulations prevented the father and son from deploying together, similar to rules stemming from the five Sullivan Brothers who died together in WWII

Episode details: published August 15, 2023 · 2.9K views · 7:31 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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