How Poison Oak, Shame & a Lie Saved This Marine From a Plane Crash | Ep. 250 | Pt. 1
In this powerful episode of The Mike Drop Podcast, former Marine Raider Joe Malone sits down with Mike Ritland to share his raw and unfiltered journey—from growing up in a mafia-connected suburb to battling early drug use and heroin withdrawal, all the way to surviving brutal deployments with MARSOC in Afghanistan and Syria. Joe opens up about facing ISIS on the battlefield, surviving a deadly KC-130 crash that claimed his fellow Marines, and the heavy burden of survivor’s guilt that followed. Listeners will hear about Joe’s struggles with severe poison oak, failing a critical ruck run, and…
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