U.S. Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander Caroline Johnson joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’
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Cockpit of an FA 18 super
cockpit of an fa, 18 super
hornet and took part in
over forty combat missions flying
over Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
Her story is one of several
featured in my upcoming book,
modern warriors, which will be
available on November twenty four.
You can get a free copy as well.
If you sign up for a
year subscription of Fox nation
right now,
Lt Commander, Carolyn Johnson,
joins me now
LT commander. Thank you so much
for being with us this morning
and thank you so much for being
in the book,
its an honor to have you
youre chapter thirteen by the way
and your stotory is a very, very
powerful one naval academy,
active duty and your chapter
starts with a vivid portray all
of being at Mount Sinjar. You
covered it in the news. You were
there in the cockpit above talk
to us about putting the training
you had into the real world and
again thank you for joining us
yeah. Thank you so much for
having me so my job as an
fa, 18 super Hornet weapon
s systems officer was to
provide safety and security up
in Mount Sinjar.
We were executing humanitarian
relief operations because ISIS
was prosecuting and my job was
to keep them safe because
thats what we could deliver,
and so, when called upon after
nine years, one month and ten
days of training, I was able to
finally do my job
neutralize ISIS fighters to be
able to protect thousands of
folks on the ground
PETE. You know, but its also.
What we tried to do with the
book Carolyn is to take
people behind the scenes and you
wrote a book as well. So people
want more on your particular
story. They can check that out as
well, but talk to people
share whats the challenge of
youre that high up in the air
trying to make decisions about
who to drop them on whose
friendly, whose foe?
How do you command your emotions
in those moments?
Yeah its very difficult,
and that is one of the key
things that we develop over the
years of training? Is that
ability to compartmentalize to
manage stress and also manage
your emotions in those very
difficult ethical decisions,
because youre trying to figure
out you know what is the right
action to take here, and that is
something that weve become
experts at over time is high
risk decision making,
because not only are we dealing
with millions of dollars, but
were also dealing in lives.
Pete Lt, Commander, Caroline
Johnson, so honored to have you
featured in the book you had
are a modern warrior. Real
stories of heroism certainly
fits your background
PETE. Thank you. So much for
having me appreciate it.
Pete, of course, and modern
warriors comes out November. Twenty four
were about ten days away and the
modern warriors special airs
on Fox on November, twenty nine as well
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Transcript generated on 2020-11-15.