Ryan Rogers Interviews Ryan Fugit | Choices Not Chances Podcast

Combat Story

Ryan Fugit

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

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Today we turn the tables as Ryan Rogers hosts Combat Story's Ryan Fugit on the Choices not Chances Podcast. Listeners will recall Ryan Rogers' Combat Story interview from Episode (please add episode number and link to YouTube interview) where they dove into the Battle of Marjah.

Ryan Rogers returned the favor and hosted Ryan Fugit on his program and we dive into some new ground that hasn't been explored previously. I wanted to give a shout out to Ryan Rogers and his program and felt this was a great way to do it.

Find Ryan Online:
- Ryan’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/combatstory
- Merch https://www.bonfire.com/store/combats...
- Instagram @combatstory https://www.instagram.com/combatstory
- Facebook @combatstoryofficial https://fb.me/combatstoryofficial
- Send us messages at https://m.me/combatstoryofficial
- Learn more about Ryan www.combatstory.com/aboutus
- Intro Song: Sport Rock from Audio Jungle
Find Ryan Rogers Online:
- Ryan's book Lions of Marjah https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Marjah-Combat-As-Saw/dp/0578891220
- Twitter @RyanRog98054437 https://twitter.com/ryanrog98054437
- Choices Not Chances Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqcmxKqaR4dIFFpaJxhtrQ

Show Notes:
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Guest Introduction (Choices Not Chances Podcast)
01:04 - Interview begins
03:20 - Childhood and Family life
10:11 - Coming back to the U.S.
12:32 - Living in Africa and Afghanistan
16:57 - Path to enlisting
19:43 - 4Patriots
23:05 - Deciding to become an Army Pilot
28:39 - Getting the Apache
32:48 - Flight school
41:28 - Flying the Apache
48:20 - Additional duties for a Staff Pilot
51:49 - First time downrange
58:23 - Time in Afghanistan
01:08:00 - Classified footage
01:11:20 - A bad day in Afghanistan
01:21:03 - Losing Faith
01:26:44 - Leaving the Military
01:29:30 - Time at the CIA
01:28:10 - After the CIA and Combat Story

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Combat Story. I'm Ryan Fugid and I serve WarZone tours as an Army
0:05.5	attack helicopter pilot and CIA officer over a 15-year career. I'm fascinated by
0:10.5	the experiences of the elite in combat. On this show I interview some of the
0:14.6	best to understand what combat felt like on their front lines. This is Combat
0:19.6	Story. Today we have a crossover combat story where I go on to Ryan Rodgers
0:24.8	podcast. Choices not chances. You all will recall Ryan from his interview on
0:30.0	Combat Story where we got into the Battle of Marja and his experience there. He
0:34.3	has a great podcast himself and he was kind enough to reciprocate and bring me
0:38.2	back on to his show where we talked all about my own combat experience and we
0:43.0	dug into some areas that we hadn't discussed previously on other podcasts. I
0:47.0	thought it would be a great chance to give Ryan's program a little more
0:50.6	air time and to share a bit more of my combat story with you all. So with
0:54.5	that please enjoy the two Ryan's back at it again but this time with yours
0:59.1	truly in the hot seat and Ryan Rodgers as the host. This is Choices not
1:06.4	chances podcast with Ryan and Matt. I'm your co-host Matthew Shripp. Sit next
1:10.8	me is Ryan Rodgers. Ryan. Hey welcome back everybody. This week's episode is with
1:15.1	the host of Combat Story Ryan Fugid. I first met Ryan when I recorded with
1:20.5	him for his podcast several months ago and I had such a great time and we had
1:24.3	great conversation that I wanted to get the chance to get him into the hot seat.
1:27.5	Ask him a few questions as I was intrigued about you know the small and
1:31.5	not information that I learned during conversation you know in the interview
1:35.9	with him. Ryan talks about his decision to serve coming from hearing the
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