The University of Badassery Ep. 15: Greg Coker & George Hand
The University of Badassery Podcast
C. J. Ortiz & Pat McNamara
5.0 • 736 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Mac and C.J. are joined by two elite veterans: Greg "Gravy" Coker, attack helicopter pilot of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne, aka "Nightstalkers") and once again by George Hand, IV of the Unit.
Greg and George collaborated on a new book by Greg on his own stories from combat as an elite attack helicopter pilot: Death Waits in the Dark: Six Guns Don't Miss! The Story of a Special Operations Attack Helicopter Pilot.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the University of Badassery Podcast, where Mac and CJ are going academic on ass kickery. |
| 0:07.0 | Ha ha! Don't suck. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. The I'm a |
| 0:24.6 | Awebauds |
| 0:25.6 | A Well, welcome to the University of Badassery Podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | This is C.J. Ortiz and I am the... Welcome to the University of Badassery Podcast. |
| 1:00.6 | This is C.J. Ortiz and I am the metal motivator. |
| 1:02.8 | Now what we're going to do today with Mac? |
| 1:05.5 | I got to do some completely different. |
| 1:11.6 | We see it across from me again by about 80 miles because of the COVID horse crap. |
| 1:19.5 | 22 years in special forces, 13 of those years spent in an elite tier one unit of which shall not be mentioned or named. What he doesn't tell people often because he's so damn |
| 1:24.9 | humble was all of his years in the Girl Scouts. |
| 1:29.5 | He managed to carve out a butterfly patch and earned a merit badge in underwater balsalwood welding. |
| 1:39.9 | Yeah, bro. |
| 1:41.1 | Claim to fame right there. |
| 1:43.2 | But to me, he is Patrick Heavy Metal MacDamara. Bro, |
| 1:46.6 | good to see you, man. Same. CJ, always good to see your pretty face up on my screen. |
| 1:52.9 | We're not doing a lot of in-person stuff, but you got to get back down here, bro, to my neck of the wood. |
| 1:57.9 | So we could go power slam some pines. Go raging, man. |
| 2:02.0 | Rage like Jamaicans. |
| 2:02.7 | Yes. |
| 2:07.3 | So, yeah, so me and Mac are doing a whole lot of fun stuff with the Keep the Blaze Alive coaching squad, which is going outstanding. |
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