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#322 - Alejandro Villanueva - 10th Mountain Divison to the NFL

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

On this weeks episode of the Black Rifle Coffee Podcast, Evan Hafer talks with Alejandro Villanueva. Alejandro was assigned to 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan. Following his military career he went on to play in 7 seasons in the NFL as an offensive tackle.

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0:00.0

Black Ribble Coffee, baby.

0:01.5

Pretty cool.

0:02.6

Where do you want to start?

0:11.1

So one thing you were saying earlier is that you came back to the stage at 17 from where we had before?

0:19.8

Belgium.

0:20.7

And then were you there the entire time?

0:22.6

Because you were born in Mississippi, right?

0:24.6

Was born in Mississippi?

0:25.6

Yeah, you got to like start there.

0:26.6

So how do you go from Mississippi, Belgium, back the United States at 17?

0:31.6

Yeah.

0:32.6

Like you got to kind of like catch me up to speed on this.

0:35.6

It's an interesting story.

0:38.3

I guess it goes along with how the United States has grown as a world superpower.

0:46.2

So my father was in the Spanish Navy, and he became a pilot.

0:51.8

And in order to learn how to fly, they take him to a base in Marieti, Mississippi, where

0:57.0

they teach him how to fly a basic plane, and then they go to Eglin Air Force Base, where they

1:01.0

teach him how to fly a reactor planes or whatnot.

1:03.0

So he was a Harrier pilot and an F-18 pilot, and while he was in the United States, is when I was born.

1:10.0

So then I went back to Europe.

1:11.8

I spent most of my life in Spain.

1:14.7

Came back to the United States when he did the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island for six months.

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