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

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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.

His first appearance became the most-watched episode this show has ever released. This one goes further.

▶️ Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/S5H_9VieDH0

CHAPTERS
00:00 Chris Is Back — The Most-Viral Guest Returns
08:06 Recognized in the Wild — Life After the First Episode
22:06 The Pentagon After 9/11 — 28 Days at the Hole
36:22 He Stood Next to Pat Tillman
43:13 The Truth About the Cover-Up
1:09:40 Mourning Their Own — What Really Happened in the Platoon
1:24:29 Winter Strike 2003 — Sent Into the High Mountains
1:43:51 Living at Altitude — The Body Breaks Down
1:53:20 Honoring the Ones Who Didn’t Come Home
2:09:07 The First Time He Got Shot At
2:19:04 John Owens — The Hardest Man He Ever Served With
2:49:01 Do We Even Need Navy SEALs? — Redundancy in Special Ops
3:06:21 An E-4 Ranger vs. SEAL Team Six — The Warlord Capture
3:24:48 The Car Bomb — When the CNS Burns Out
3:36:32 The Book “Unseen Worlds” — Why He Wrote It
3:50:10 What a Team Actually Costs the Men In It
4:06:49 Onto a Bering Sea Crab Boat — The Deadliest Job on Earth
4:53:04 The High Seas, the Money, and the Men Who Break
5:05:20 Things You Only See at Sea — The Jellyfish Bloom
5:27:38 Becoming a Master of the Craft — Competitive Shooting
5:58:58 Six Years Inside a Drone Program — The Department of War
6:10:53 The $400 Drone That Kills a Tank — Where War Is Headed
6:27:01 Leadership, Recovery, and Coming Home
6:43:26 Why He Keeps Telling These Stories

🔗 More from Chris McCoy
📖 Book — “Unseen Worlds” (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H7Z6JMWP
🌐 Website: https://chrismccoyauthor.com
📰 Substack: https://chrismccoyauthor.substack.com
📸 Instagram: @rok275

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