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Jeff Reid has a lot of mouths to feed. He's the owner/operator of Frozen Trident, a dog kennel he and his family founded in 2018 in Two Rivers, Alaska: the dog-mushing capital of the world. He's an Iditarod racer, having received the Red Lantern Award after racing with his own dogs along the wildly difficult long-distance annual sled dog race traveling 938 miles from Anchorage to Nome. He's also a former SEAL, having served 9 years with SEAL Team 4 with two kinetic deployments in Afghanistan.
But Jeff wasn't always a dog guy - he never even owned one growing up, in fact. It wasn't until his platoon met a stray dog named Frank on his second deployment in Afghanistan that things really started to change. So how's a Pennsylvania native end up deploying to Afghanistan, serving at the Tip of the Spear, retiring to Alaska, and competing in one of the coldest, most difficult races in the country? Let's meet Jeff.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:51 - Two Rivers: The Dog-Mushing Capital of the World
04:29 - Wolves, Moose, and My Alaskan EDC
08:27 - Waking Up In Alaska
14:42 - Growing Up in Pennsyltucky
20:00 - Boot Camp to BUD/S
29:29 - Polishing the Bell at BUD/S Class 271
39:00 - Welcome to SEAL Team 4
44:49 - Landing in Kandahar
56:29 - How to Smuggle A Dog Out of Afghanistan
01:11:38- Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
01:18:33 - Off with a Bang on Deployment #2
01:29:17 - Well Performing Operations
01:35:30 - Funneling Towards Exit
01:45:07 - Building a Dog-Mushing Training Kennel at Frozen Trident
01:59:42 - Breeding a Winning Iditarod Team
02:10:43 - How Much Does All This Cost, Anyway?
02:15:20 - Do You Remember Our First Conversation Together?
02:19:43 Alaskan Living Conditions
02:21:28 - Prepping for the Iditarod
02:33:45 - The Prime Years of a Sled Dog
02:39:03 - Racing The Iditarod
03:46:58 - So What's Harder - Iditarod or BUD/S?
03:49:37 - How It Could've Gone Wrong
03:51:33 - Feeding with Teamdog
03:56:41 - The Post-Race Hot Wash
04:05:51 - Patreon Questions
04:18:25 - What's Next?
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