Terminal List Author | Navy SEAL | Sniper | Enlisted and Officer SEAL | Jack Carr
Combat Story
Ryan Fugit
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Today we hear the Combat Story of Jack Carr, who many of us know as the author and creator of the book series and Amazon hit show Terminal List. Before becoming an accomplished author, Jack was a Navy SEAL, both enlisted and as an officer. He served as a sniper, led a platoon, and even a Task Force in combat.
Jack is one of the most well-read people we’ve ever interviewed and has had tremendous success as a creator, SEAL, husband, father, and outdoorsman. I gravitated to Terminal List on Amazon because it so authentically depicts the emotions of a combat veteran and because it features a secondary character from Zimbabwe that elicits an amazing background that is so familiar to me from my upbringing in that part of the world (and that Jack and I speak about as we kick off the show).
Jack is releasing his sixth book “Only the Dead” on May 16th and, if it’s anything like the first five, is sure to be great.
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- The Terminal List Podcast https://www.officialjackcarr.com/terminal-list-podcast/
- (Pre) Order Only The Dead book https://a.co/d/fXC2Jnj
- Learn more about Jack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Carr_(writer)
Show Notes:
00:00 - Intro
00:56 - Guest Introduction (Jack Carr)
01:58 - Interview begins
04:23 - Zimbabwe
09:46 - Travel
15:33 - Becoming a writer
24:26 - 4Patriots
25:45 - Childhood
31:38 - Enlistment
37:56 - Experiences downrange
44:55 - Experiences that inspired writing
50:31 - Close calls
58:04 - Applying tactics in writing
01:04:47 - Most courageous act
01:06:55 - Sentimental items
01:08:56 - Do it all again
01:10:37 - Listener comments and shout outs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Point being your man hunting. And you're putting together a pattern of life and you're waiting |
| 0:05.1 | for a trigger meaning you don't want to go to this person's house if they're not there. |
| 0:09.2 | Just because they're usually there. Well, you have to know that they're there. Same thing |
| 0:12.7 | down range. So wasn't that much classified type stuff. It was just in Baghdad or wherever |
| 0:17.6 | else that we're doing it. So yeah, that ambush was impactful, I would say, because the |
| 0:22.6 | reason we ended up in it. I talk about this in the first book as a memory. So my protagonist |
| 0:27.4 | is walking to meeting, essentially, where he's going to take somebody off the board. And |
| 0:31.5 | he's thinking of the he's reminded of the streets around where this place is. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome to combat story. I'm Ryan fugit and I serve war zone tours as an army attack |
| 0:40.1 | helicopter pilot and CIA officer over a 15 year career. I'm fascinated by the experiences |
| 0:45.6 | of the elite and combat. On this show, I interview some of the best to understand what combat |
| 0:50.7 | felt like on their front lines. This is combat story. Today, we hear the combat story |
| 0:56.3 | of Jack Carr. Many of us know as the author and creator of the book series and Amazon |
| 1:00.9 | hit show terminal list. Before becoming an accomplished author, however, Jack was a Navy |
| 1:06.2 | seal, both enlisted and as an officer. He served as a sniper, led a platoon, and even |
| 1:12.2 | a task force in combat. Jack is one of the most well-read people we've ever interviewed |
| 1:17.2 | and has had tremendous success as a creator, seal, husband, father, and outdoorsman. I gravitated |
| 1:23.8 | to terminal list on Amazon because it's so authentically depicts the emotions of |
| 1:28.4 | a combat veteran because it features a secondary character from Zimbabwe that elicits an amazing |
| 1:33.5 | background that is so familiar to me from my upbringing in that part of the world and |
| 1:38.0 | that Jack and I speak about as we kick off the show. Jack is releasing his sixth book, |
| 1:42.8 | only the dead on May 16th. And if it's anything like the first five, it's sure to be great. |
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