Vincent Vargas: Borderline
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Jack Carr
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🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
Vincent “Rocco” Vargas is a special operations combat veteran, former Homeland Security Federal Agent, actor, writer, and producer.
During his 12 years of service, Vincent went on three combat deployments with the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. After leaving active duty, he joined the Army Reserves as Sergeant First Class. In 2009, he became a Federal Agent with the Department of Homeland Security, where he worked extensively on the United States-Mexico border, serving as a medic with the Special Operations Group.
After his time in the military, Vincent experienced severe bouts of PTSD. In an effort to help other veterans, Vincent founded Beteran, an apparel company where 50% of all proceeds go toward helping veterans seek treatment for trauma and transition back to civilian life.
As an actor, Vincent is known for his role as “Gilly” on Mayans MC, as well as in films including Range 15, Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace, and Dark of Light. Today, Vincent is the Head of Marketing at the security services firm The North Group.
His new book, Borderline: Defending the Home Front, will be released in November.
You can learn more about Vincent at vincentroccovargas.com and beteran.com
You can follow Vincent and Beteran on Instagram @vincent.rocco.vargas and @beteran.hq
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Navy Federal |
| 0:21.5 | Credit Union. |
| 0:22.7 | My next novel only the dead hits shelves on May 16th and is available for pre-order |
| 0:29.0 | anywhere you get your books right now. |
| 0:32.5 | My guest today, Vincent Vargas. |
| 0:35.1 | You know him as one of the stars of Mayans, but before that he was an army ranger, then |
| 0:39.8 | went to work for a private prison, then became a border patrol agent and is now an actor, |
| 0:44.9 | writer and producer in Hollywood. |
| 0:47.3 | So now, without further ado, Vincent Vargas. |
| 0:51.6 | All right, what's up, man? |
| 0:56.3 | What's going on? |
| 0:57.3 | Good to see you. |
| 0:58.3 | How you doing? |
| 0:59.3 | Good, man. |
| 1:00.3 | What's going on? |
| 1:01.3 | So we finally got to do this. |
| 1:02.3 | We've only been talking about it for like a year and a half, I think. |
| 1:05.0 | I know. |
| 1:06.0 | Schedules are crazy. |
| 1:07.0 | So crazy. |
| 1:08.0 | I had to change this one a couple of times, but I'm glad we're good. |
| 1:10.8 | We're good. |
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