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Nick Lavery

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The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And every enlisted guy on the team has a specialty that they focus on, although we cross train amongst each other. So everyone has to have an idea of how to do everyone else's job, just not to that extent. You have your intel sergeant, and that is not a position you can take right out of the gate.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And every enlisted guy on the team has a specialty that they focus on, although we cross train amongst each other. So everyone has to have an idea of how to do everyone else's job, just not to that extent. You have your intel sergeant, and that is not a position you can take right out of the gate.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

You have to come in as one of the other four jobs, and then you can request or be assigned to then move into the intelligence sergeant position, who really operates also as kind of the 2IC or the second in command for the team sergeant. So in that split team dynamic, when you've got your officers that are in charge, you would also split your intel sergeant, otherwise known as an 18 Fox,

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

You have to come in as one of the other four jobs, and then you can request or be assigned to then move into the intelligence sergeant position, who really operates also as kind of the 2IC or the second in command for the team sergeant. So in that split team dynamic, when you've got your officers that are in charge, you would also split your intel sergeant, otherwise known as an 18 Fox,

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

You have to come in as one of the other four jobs, and then you can request or be assigned to then move into the intelligence sergeant position, who really operates also as kind of the 2IC or the second in command for the team sergeant. So in that split team dynamic, when you've got your officers that are in charge, you would also split your intel sergeant, otherwise known as an 18 Fox,

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And your team sergeant, otherwise known as an 18 Zulu, would be the senior enlisted guys for those two sections. And then you got your four baseline enlisted positions. So you're 18 Bravos, which is what I was, which is a weapons and tactics specialist. You've got your 18 Chalis, which are your engineers and your demolitions experts. You've got your 18 Deltas, which are your medics.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And your team sergeant, otherwise known as an 18 Zulu, would be the senior enlisted guys for those two sections. And then you got your four baseline enlisted positions. So you're 18 Bravos, which is what I was, which is a weapons and tactics specialist. You've got your 18 Chalis, which are your engineers and your demolitions experts. You've got your 18 Deltas, which are your medics.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And your team sergeant, otherwise known as an 18 Zulu, would be the senior enlisted guys for those two sections. And then you got your four baseline enlisted positions. So you're 18 Bravos, which is what I was, which is a weapons and tactics specialist. You've got your 18 Chalis, which are your engineers and your demolitions experts. You've got your 18 Deltas, which are your medics.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And then you've got your 18 Echos, which are your comms individuals. And then what usually goes unnoticed or uncared for until you're in the team and actually doing it is ODAs are built to be self-sufficient. So of course, in the army, in the military, you've got all these support functions that support operations. You got your S1, your S2, your S3, your S4.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And then you've got your 18 Echos, which are your comms individuals. And then what usually goes unnoticed or uncared for until you're in the team and actually doing it is ODAs are built to be self-sufficient. So of course, in the army, in the military, you've got all these support functions that support operations. You got your S1, your S2, your S3, your S4.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

And then you've got your 18 Echos, which are your comms individuals. And then what usually goes unnoticed or uncared for until you're in the team and actually doing it is ODAs are built to be self-sufficient. So of course, in the army, in the military, you've got all these support functions that support operations. You got your S1, your S2, your S3, your S4.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

These are all your support entities that enable us to do what we need to do when it comes to operations. So your finance and your paperwork and your logistics and your supply and your intel and all these things that are necessary for us to go do the work. ODAs build those support functions into the MOSs.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

These are all your support entities that enable us to do what we need to do when it comes to operations. So your finance and your paperwork and your logistics and your supply and your intel and all these things that are necessary for us to go do the work. ODAs build those support functions into the MOSs.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

These are all your support entities that enable us to do what we need to do when it comes to operations. So your finance and your paperwork and your logistics and your supply and your intel and all these things that are necessary for us to go do the work. ODAs build those support functions into the MOSs.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

So an example would be your 18 Charlie, who's your engineer and your demo guy, is also your S4 function. So he's in charge of property. So he's managing a ton of paperwork, 2062 hand receipts. He's managing the team's inventory as well. So those are the internal staff functions, support functions that each guy on the ODA also maintains so that we can truly operate in a self-sufficient manner.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

So an example would be your 18 Charlie, who's your engineer and your demo guy, is also your S4 function. So he's in charge of property. So he's managing a ton of paperwork, 2062 hand receipts. He's managing the team's inventory as well. So those are the internal staff functions, support functions that each guy on the ODA also maintains so that we can truly operate in a self-sufficient manner.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

So an example would be your 18 Charlie, who's your engineer and your demo guy, is also your S4 function. So he's in charge of property. So he's managing a ton of paperwork, 2062 hand receipts. He's managing the team's inventory as well. So those are the internal staff functions, support functions that each guy on the ODA also maintains so that we can truly operate in a self-sufficient manner.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah. So there's these secondary jobs and responsibilities. Yeah. Like our medics are S1s. So all of our pay and leave and like admin, like paperwork shit, that guy's managing all that. That actually surprises me. Yeah. That's really impressive. Yeah. It's, I mean- It's not what most of us sign up for is that.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah. So there's these secondary jobs and responsibilities. Yeah. Like our medics are S1s. So all of our pay and leave and like admin, like paperwork shit, that guy's managing all that. That actually surprises me. Yeah. That's really impressive. Yeah. It's, I mean- It's not what most of us sign up for is that.

The Nick Bare Podcast
122: How Nick Lavery Returned to Combat as the First Above-The-Knee Amputee

Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah. So there's these secondary jobs and responsibilities. Yeah. Like our medics are S1s. So all of our pay and leave and like admin, like paperwork shit, that guy's managing all that. That actually surprises me. Yeah. That's really impressive. Yeah. It's, I mean- It's not what most of us sign up for is that.