Delta Force Operator Shot on Mission | Starting Coffee and Cigar Company | Brent Tucker - Round 2

Combat Story

Ryan Fugit

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Today we hear the second round of our insightful two part Combat Story with former Green Beret and Delta Force operator Brent Tucker. In this episode, Brent runs through deployments with The Unit, including what it feels like breaching a door on an objective and earning a Purple Heart (the last one on his team to earn one), after being shot and hit with grenade shrapnel.

Since leaving the military, Brent founded First Responder’s Coffee Company, which uses the tagline ‘Coffee with a purpose’ because it supports the First Responder community. We dig into the intent behind it’s sister entity, First Responder’s Cigar Company, and Brent’s recollection of cigars and coffee in the military.

Please enjoy this deep dive and wide ranging discussion with a former Tier 1 operator and all the ups and downs that come with that career…and maybe listen to this with a cup his Bourbon flavored coffee from FRCC!

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👇 Show Notes:

00:00 - Introduction
00:54 - Guest Profile:
02:02 - Start of Interview
02:09 - First Responders Coffee and Cigar Company
10:37 - Smoking Cigars in Uniform
21:21 - Celbrating After A Mission
25:41- Mint Mobile Ad
26:53 - First Near Death Experience
38:42 - Losing a Teammate and Grief
46:54 - Loss of Purpose After Service and First Responders
01:05:02 - Getting Shot Story
02:02:02 - Existing Outside The Military
02:08:11 - First Responders Coffee Company Future
02:10:36 - Sentimental Items
02:15:01 - Would You Do It All Again?
02:17:47 - Listener Comments and Feedback

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0:00.0	I can see that he's closer to shooting me than I am at shooting him and things aren't
0:06.2	things aren't looking things aren't looking good for me tonight to try to drive my gun as fast as I can
0:11.2	to him and he lets out a burst of full auto from the hip.
0:15.0	Kind of walks the rounds up in front of him.
0:18.0	One of the rounds shoots me in the arm.
0:20.0	It starts to spin me and the next round shoots my night vision goggles right in the middle
0:26.5	and breaks him in half. And I remember thinking, damn it, I knew I was going to get shot eventually,
0:32.1	and I was just, I was hoping it wasn't tonight.
0:35.2	Hope it won any night.
0:36.5	Welcome to Combat Story.
0:37.8	I'm Ryan Puget and I serve War Zone Tours
0:39.9	as an Army Attack Helicopter pilot and CIA officer over a 15 year career.
0:44.0	I'm fascinated by the experiences of the elite in combat. On this show I interview some of the
0:49.3	best to understand what combat felt like on their front lines.
0:53.2	This is Combat Story.
0:55.0	Today we hear the second round of our insightful two-part combat story
0:58.8	with former Green Berets and Delta Force operator Brent Tucker.
1:02.0	In this episode episode Brent shares his
1:04.1	deployments with the unit including what it feels like breaching a door on an
1:08.0	objective and earning a purple heart. He was the last one on his team to earn one in fact, after being shot in the arm and hit with grenade
1:15.8	trapnell. He'll be amazed at what actually caused the most pain for him that evening.
1:20.4	It was not what I was expecting. Since leaving the military, Brent founded First Responders Coffee Company, which uses the tagline
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