David Goggins Explains Why He Does Smokejumping

what is that smoke jumping stuff so basically it's um you know about Wildland firefighting about when the forest has fires there's a lot of times there's roads and there's access to get there so these you know whether it be a Hot Shot crew or whatever these different Crews who come in by vehicle they can get into the fire that way what a smoke jumper is is you can't get a vehicle into that place it is a spot where it's tight there's no vehicles there's no access so they'll send us in there smoke jumpers jump out of airplanes and we'll land in these really tight small Drop Zones with all of our gear and we'll put the fire out how do you take Walter in we jump out so everything is hang on you're jumping out of a airplane parachute with backpacks of water like a camel pack type thing so we'll jump out we'll have this it's called a ditty pack and it and it sits and you know it sits like by your waist you know on your legs area when you jump out and that has a lot of your gear but what happens is once you jump out the aircraft would go lower and will push out all the rest of your gear your water pumps oh and that'll get air dropped in with its own little parachutes right right so a lot of our main gear gets dropped into us and then we're out there for several days until the fire is put out by us and only us that's insane it's insane yeah why'd you do that well when I left the military um you're I'm always looking for more I'm always looking for what's the next thing for myself how can I grow and that right there was next thing for me you know I didn't want to sit back and you know just enjoy my retirement for the military that's there's there's no growth in that so I decided to go out and do this so you jump out of an airplane with a team you get your kit also parachuted out of the back you're now in the middle of an area where there's no Evac there's no vehicles that can come and get you there's a fire you need to put the fire out and you don't stop until you're done that's it sometimes there is a way to get out but a lot of times it's just you know if someone gets hurt on the jump a lot of times we have to build like cut down a bunch of trees so a helicopter can come in land and get them out so we are the only access we have to save ourselves so a lot of times we are the team to get us in and to get us out what was the longest Mission exercise I think the longest ride there was seven days so and what's the sort of daily routine are you sleeping do you get much sleep at all no not really so what happens is and the thing about being in Canada so I do this out of uh out of British Columbia so what happens is there's a lot of daylight but I'm so when I'm out there man there's a lot of daylight in the middle of the summer when it's hot when you've got tons of right okay that's right so there's not much there's not much dark so you're basically working a lot of hours so and then when it gets dark you're actually working through the night time and then you get a little you know you get a little rest and you wake up and you add it again and then when the fire is out you Patrol the fire make sure there's no more hot spots make sure everything is black and wet because we we literally wet the whole area down so there's no hot spots and then that's all done will demo which means we'll clean up all the stuff all our hoses you know we'll we'll pack up all our stuff and then we'll we'll get out of there did you ask to be paid for this I I get about I think the the pay is about 12 to 15 bucks an hour so it was funny about it man like when I first started doing this job um people didn't know that you know I'm actually successful in business and then it realized that I was like basically turned down millions of dollars to do this job and they can continue thinking it to make 15 bucks to make 15 bucks an hour so yeah but you know like I said for me the the whole money part of it it's it's not what it's about I'm all about that growth and that growth isn't in these massive paychecks for speaking to corporations stuff like that the growth for me is in that 12 to 15 an hour when you're out there and it's like 20 you know 20 degrees and you're freezing your ass off and you're thinking you know what I don't need to be here anymore and you start questioning yourself while you're here and there's a lot of growth in that

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Length: 4min 42sec (282 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 19 2023