Summary of Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano's Scars and Stripes

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Get the Summary of Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano's Scars and Stripes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he’s about to die. Kennedy, a Green Beret, decorated Army sniper, and UFC headliner, has tackled a bull with his bare hands, jumped out of airplanes, dove to the depths of the ocean, and traveled the world hunting poachers, human traffickers, and the Taliban.

But he’s also the same man who got kicked out of the police department, fire department, and as an EMT, before getting two women pregnant four days apart, and finally, been beaten up by his Special Forces colleagues for, quite simply, “being a selfish asshole.”

In Scars and Stripes, Kennedy describes how these failures shaped him into the successful businessman and devoted husband and father he is today. Through unbelievably vivid, wild anecdotes Kennedy reveals all the dumb, violent, embarrassing, and undeniably heroic things he’s done in his life, including multiple combat missions in Afghanistan, building a school in Texas for elementary kids, and creating two-multimillion-dollar businesses. You will learn that failure isn’t the end—rather it’s the first step towards unearthing the best version of yourself and finding success, no matter how overwhelming the setbacks may feel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jan 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798350063219

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Summary of Tim Kennedy & Nick Palmisciano’s Scars and Stripes

Contents

Overview

The Creek Gang

The Fight Life

Red, White, and Blue

A Second Chance

Hunting Zarqawi

Ranger School

The Valley of Death

Return to the Valley of Death

Time to Fight

Making a Change

Prizefighter

Hunting Hitler

Human Trafficking

Rescue

About the Authors

Overview

In Scars and Stripes (2022), Green Beret and former UFC headliner Tim Kennedy and his friend Nick Palmisciano tell the story of how Tim learned to embrace failure and become the best possible version of himself. Tim was kicked out of both the fire department and the police department and lost two MMA championships. But he bounced back to join the US Army, where he hunted down terrorists and human traffickers, and eventually start a successful tactical training company. Tim earned his stripes by using his scars and failures as fuel to grow personally and professionally.

The Creek Gang

Tim Kennedy was moving through the woods on a mission with his brother Nick and their friends. Their job was to find a high-value target who had escaped from a mental institution and was believed to have moved from the city into the woods to hide. As the team walked through the woods, they heard a twig snap, and the man appeared out of nowhere, making the team scream, drop their weapons, and run.

Tim was 11 years old at the time and Nick was 13. The group of tween boys called themselves the Creek Gang, and their weapons were sharpened sticks. Tim had a bunch of near-death, traumatic, and absurd experiences with them, such as when the Creek Gang jumped in a river to ride the rapids on inner tubes during a storm or when