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Chris McCoy: He Served With Pat Tillman, Then Left War for the Deadliest Job on Earth

Chris McCoy: He Served With Pat Tillman, Then Left War for the Deadliest Job on Earth16 jul6 h 47 min

<p>Chris McCoy served in the 75th Ranger Regiment alongside Pat Tillman and speaks plainly to the cover-up of how Tillman died. He recovered bodies inside the Pentagon after 9/11, fought through the high mountains of Afghanistan, then walked off the battlefield and onto a Bering Sea crab boat — one of the deadliest jobs on Earth. He returns to The Vanguard Wall for Part 2: the war stories he’s never told, the modern face of drone combat almost no one understands, and what it actually costs to come home.</p><p>His first appearance became the most-watched episode this show has ever released. This one goes further.</p><p>▶️ Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/S5H_9VieDH0</p><p><br /></p><p>CHAPTERS</p><p>00:00 Chris Is Back — The Most-Viral Guest Returns</p><p>08:06 Recognized in the Wild — Life After the First Episode</p><p>22:06 The Pentagon After 9/11 — 28 Days at the Hole</p><p>36:22 He Stood Next to Pat Tillman</p><p>43:13 The Truth About the Cover-Up</p><p>1:09:40 Mourning Their Own — What Really Happened in the Platoon</p><p>1:24:29 Winter Strike 2003 — Sent Into the High Mountains</p><p>1:43:51 Living at Altitude — The Body Breaks Down</p><p>1:53:20 Honoring the Ones Who Didn’t Come Home</p><p>2:09:07 The First Time He Got Shot At</p><p>2:19:04 John Owens — The Hardest Man He Ever Served With</p><p>2:49:01 Do We Even Need Navy SEALs? — Redundancy in Special Ops</p><p>3:06:21 An E-4 Ranger vs. SEAL Team Six — The Warlord Capture</p><p>3:24:48 The Car Bomb — When the CNS Burns Out</p><p>3:36:32 The Book “Unseen Worlds” — Why He Wrote It</p><p>3:50:10 What a Team Actually Costs the Men In It</p><p>4:06:49 Onto a Bering Sea Crab Boat — The Deadliest Job on Earth</p><p>4:53:04 The High Seas, the Money, and the Men Who Break</p><p>5:05:20 Things You Only See at Sea — The Jellyfish Bloom</p><p>5:27:38 Becoming a Master of the Craft — Competitive Shooting</p><p>5:58:58 Six Years Inside a Drone Program — The Department of War</p><p>6:10:53 The $400 Drone That Kills a Tank — Where War Is Headed</p><p>6:27:01 Leadership, Recovery, and Coming Home</p><p>6:43:26 Why He Keeps Telling These Stories</p><p><br /></p><p>🔗 More from Chris McCoy</p><p>📖 Book — “Unseen Worlds” (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7Z6JMWP</p><p>🌐 Website: https://chrismccoyauthor.com</p><p>📰 Substack: https://chrismccoyauthor.substack.com</p><p>📸 Instagram: @rok275</p><p><br /></p><p>⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguar