Special Forces Mountaineer Bryan Ray - Part 1 | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 131

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Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 2 April 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Ray always wanted to be the best soldier. He served 20 years in the U.S. Army, 15 of which were in Special Forces. He's deployed to Afghanistan, Africa, and Iraq, going from the most inexperienced infantry to ultimately running teams as command. He's also a mountain man, schooling amateurs on everything from moderate hiking to ice climbing at some of the highest elevations on earth.

Over the course of his career, Bryan's had a lot of close calls, from ISIS ambushes to a Taliban prison raid and even a hair-raising story of an AC-130 call gone wrong. And since then he's pivoted into Health Via Modern Nutrition, a Mike Drop favorite for fans of high-energy operations. But one thing he knows for sure is don't be a leg - and never, ever quit.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Traveling to Italy
04:15 - A Very Cold Shower
09:45 - Born on Fort Bragg
14:45 - Paintball with Dad
20:15 - "Don't Be a Leg"
23:45 - Fort Polk with the 509th
32:45 - Deployed to Iraq
36:15 - A Wayward Ambush
42:15 - The Army's Corporal Recruiting Program
45:15 - The Special Forces Qualification Course
58:00 - Back to Iraq as Special Forces
01:01:00 - Operations in Niger
01:04:00 - Meeting My Wife
01:08:00 - Conquering Mountains at SWC
01:21:45 - First Trip to Afghanistan
01:23:30 - The Difference Between Fighting ISIS and The Taliban
01:33:45 - Mortars on ISIS
01:38:45 - A RON Site Tragedy

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Transcript

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0:00.0	There was no outcome besides death if they engaged us.
0:10.0	They knew that we were hunting and we were there for a fight.
0:12.3	So we were far enough in the war and people knew who we were
0:15.6	that they knew it wasn't worth engaging.
0:17.2	And that was like legitimately middle of the nowhere deployment.
0:21.0	The timeline for us to get to a level of care was like 36 hours.
0:26.2	Like if a guy got hurt where we were at,
0:28.9	that's how long it would take to get him somewhere.
0:31.1	All that knowledge that I gained on like what it takes to live
0:33.9	and operate the mountains, we got to use that offensively against guys
0:37.9	that had to use the mountains to move into the country.
0:39.9	So it was like, I don't know, just like righteous.
0:41.9	Like it feels good to kill ISIS guys.
0:43.9	You know, there's no qualms about it.
0:45.9	You know, there's, I'm not happy about everybody that it gets killed.
0:48.9	It'd be great if that wasn't the answer all the time.
0:50.9	But when it's ISIS, it is the answer.
0:53.9	And yeah, no qualms about it.
0:54.9	Very good.
0:55.9	Very black and white.
0:56.9	Yeah, the more we killed the better.
0:59.9	Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant.
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