The Vanguard Wall Podcast

The Vanguard Wall Podcast
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Long-form interviews with combat veterans, special operators, and first responders — the people who did the hard things and carry them home. The host, an Army and law-enforcement veteran, goes deep on the moments most podcasts skip: the call made under fire, the teammate lost, and the long quiet work of putting it back together. Guests include Green Berets, Rangers, Delta, MACV-SOG, CIA, pilots, and police — plus founders, filmmakers, and voices in health and resilience. For warriors, and the families who love them. New episodes every other week. Contact: admin@thevanguardwall.com

  1. Sep 28

    The Calls He Can't Forget — Firefighter to IFBB Pro | Steve Kuclo

    Ten years on the busiest ambulance in the City of Dallas. A downtown building that came down behind him with a mayday on the radio, and the smoke that dropped him to his knees. A New Year's Eve call in a barbershop where the crowd turned on the medics. A full cardiac code run on the floor of an airplane at 35,000 feet — the night he flew home from winning the Arnold Classic Brazil. Steve Kuclo is the first firefighter-paramedic in 45 episodes of this show. He quit automotive engineering when the industry collapsed, did two fire academies and two medic schools to get to Dallas, and spent a decade running the calls that don't leave — the pediatric ones, the ones where you did everything right and it didn't matter — while building himself into an IFBB Pro who stood on the Olympia stage at 26. Then 2020 took the identity he'd spent twenty years on, and the rebuild ran through the back row of a Dallas church, a marriage, and the regenerative-medicine clinic he runs today. He covers the firehouse — the kitchen table, the probie year, what brotherhood actually means, and the PTSD, divorce, addiction and suicide numbers the fire service doesn't talk about — and then opens the knowledge base: what steroids and TRT actually do to your blood, what actually kills bodybuilders, peptides in plain English, and the stem-cell treatment the host went through on camera. ▶ Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=ULu2tjb6QjM 🎬 The stem-cell film: youtube.com/watch?v=AeJY1uJH6BE CHAPTERS 0:00:00 How they met — one call about BPC-157 0:01:55 Ten years on the ambulance, and the Olympia stage 0:13:57 Age 14 at his first Arnold Classic 0:27:33 30,000 applicants for a couple hundred Dallas fire spots 0:35:23 The busiest ambulance in Dallas: seven calls in two hours 0:59:32 The building collapse — mayday on the radio 1:10:08 The kitchen table 1:22:28 What brotherhood actually means 1:25:50 New Year's Eve in the barbershop 1:30:55 Running a full code on a plane at 35,000 feet 2:09:02 First Olympia stage at 26 2:22:38 What steroids and TRT do to your blood 2:47:17 2020 rock bottom 2:58:33 Crying in the back row of a Dallas church 3:24:17 Stem cells 101 — where the cells come from 3:37:28 What the stem cells did — the host's own account 3:45:15 Peptides — what they are and aren't 3:53:31 BPC-157 and TB-500 4:11:26 GLPs — Ozempic, tirzepatide, retatrutide 4:40:17 TRT — what it is and isn't 4:53:14 Why "my testosterone was normal" means nothing 5:07:02 The offer — a landing page for TVW listeners 🧬 STEM CELLS · PEPTIDES · TRT — Steve's door for Vanguard Wall listeners. Fill out the intake, his clinical team reviews it, and you get a straight answer on whether it's right for you: go.thevanguardwall.com/regenx 📸 Steve: @stevekuclo · ReGenX: @regenx_ ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite-ep45-audio — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch · 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast · 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall The medical portions of this conversation document personal experience and are for informational purposes only. Not medical advice; no outcome is claimed or guaranteed. Therapies discussed are not FDA-approved. Consult a licensed physician. Disclosure: Upgraded Human ReGenX provided the host's stem-cell treatment (discussed in this episode) at no cost. This is not a paid sponsorship. The Vanguard Wall earns a referral benefit through the clinic link above. Opinions are our own.

  2. Sep 9

    He Survived the Battle of Wanat — 9 of His Brothers Didn't | 1SG(r) Jesse Queck

    Eleven days from going home. Fourteen months in eastern Afghanistan already behind them, bags half packed — and the order came down to build a brand-new combat outpost on the valley floor, in the low ground, in the middle of fighting season, surrounded by high ground they were forbidden to occupy. Three days later, at dawn on 13 July 2008, roughly 160 fighters hit Combat Outpost Kahler from every direction at once. Nine American paratroopers did not come home. 1SG(r) Jesse Queck was an 11 Charlie mortarman with Chosen Company at the Battle of Wanat. In six and a half hours he walks through the whole of it: a kid from a town of 8,000 on Virginia's Eastern Shore who watched the towers fall from a high school hallway and went looking for the war; four deployments; the helicopter crash that took his roommate and his mentor; and then the morning the mountain opened up. The mortar pit flooded with fire until the tube was useless. His weapons failed in his hands, so he picked up an AT4 he had never fired in his life, stepped into the open so the backblast wouldn't catch his own men, and put it into the treeline. His soldier Sergio Abad died on the ground beside him. When word came down that OP Topside had one man left alive on the radio — Ryan Pitts, who would later receive the Medal of Honor — Jesse said two words: I'm going. He climbed toward the fight everyone else was trying to survive, became the medic for the dying, and called in a B-1 by ear when he could no longer hear his own radio. That is the half of the story people tell. The other half is what happened when he came home to a dark place with no enemy in it — the drinking, the night his wife called him frantic, the survivor's guilt he carried for years over Abad, and the day the woman who raised Sergio told him: I don't blame you. I forgive you. I love you. Because Jesse will tell you a soldier dies twice — once when he falls, and again when no one says his name. Today he says those names. 1SG(r) Jesse Queck survived the Battle of Wanat, 13 July 2008 — one of the fiercest small-unit fights of the Afghan war, where nine American paratroopers were killed. This is the full conversation. CHAPTERS 0:00:00 Cold Open: Wanat, July 2008 0:04:03 Growing Up on Virginia's Eastern Shore 0:12:02 September 11th in the School Hallway 0:24:47 What a Mortarman Actually Does 0:30:29 Fort Drum: The Helicopter Crash 0:41:40 French Commando School in Djibouti 0:49:09 The Smart Bomb That Hit the Helicopter 1:08:51 Route Tampa: IEDs and Complacency 1:18:01 Reenlisting for Italy and the 173rd 1:40:13 Ranch House at 3,300 Meters 1:55:32 Ranch House Overrun on the Radio 2:06:56 The Order to Build Wanat 2:14:55 Building the Outpost by Hand 2:25:34 Stand-To on 13 July 2008 2:35:26 The First RPG Hits the TOW Truck 2:42:05 Weapons Seize, Firing the AT4 2:48:32 Sergio Abad Is Hit 2:56:04 Abad's Guardian and Forgiveness 3:15:42 Volunteering to Reinforce OP Topside 3:22:11 Reaching OP Topside 3:32:31 Jonathan Ayers on the 240 3:39:25 The RPG That Wounded Him 3:49:42 The Medevac Pilots 3:58:46 Landstuhl, Vicodin, and Coming Home 4:02:35 Saying Their Names 4:14:24 Drill Sergeant: Visualizing the Range 4:31:31 Lewis-McChord and Spin Boldak 4:39:12 Ranger School at Twenty-Nine 4:53:41 Fixing a Broken Tank Company 5:08:26 Observer-Controller at the National Training Center 5:21:51 COVID, Isolation, and Drinking 5:33:03 Losing Stratton Hall 5:44:30 The Meadows and Getting Sober 6:00:07 Bob Starr and Learning Business 6:06:08 Farm Bureau and Serving Clients 6:17:40 A Message to His Kids ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite-ep44-audio — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch · 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast · 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall

  3. Aug 31

    25 Years in Tech, a Dozen Patents — and He Says You've Been Told Two Lies About AI | Shawn Ennis

    If you’ve read the news in the last three years, you’ve been handed two stories about AI — and they can’t both be true. Story one: the machines are coming for your job, your kid’s job, your retirement, your privacy. Story two: it’s all hype, a bubble about to pop and take your 401(k) with it. Shawn Ennis — 25 years in technology, an Auburn-trained engineer with a dozen patents, who built three companies and sold one to Oracle — sits down to take the scariest, most hyped subject on Earth and make it make sense in plain English. What AI actually is, how it works, where it’s real and where it’s a lie — then through the four doors it’s already come through in your life: your home, your privacy, your paycheck, and the battlefield. No hype, no doom. Just the truth, slow enough to use. ▶ Watch the full conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/EbM4-LJSd4Y Follow Shawn Ennis — YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ennissh · LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnennis Tech executive Shawn Ennis sits down with The Vanguard Wall for a full-length conversation that takes artificial intelligence out of the headlines and puts it in plain English: what AI actually is and what really happens when you hit enter, whether it can take your job and the work it will never touch, the AI already running in your house, deepfakes and scams and how to protect your family, the data centers going up down the road, the AI bubble and what a pop would mean for your 401(k), what it offers a small business owner, and the machines already deciding who lives and dies on battlefields in Ukraine — plus the military AI story that never makes the news: the one that brings everybody home. A plain-English guide to the most hyped subject on Earth, from a man who spent 25 years building it. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome + Why This Conversation 2:02 The Two Stories You've Been Told About AI 4:05 Who Is Shawn Ennis? Before AI 7:40 The Why Guy: Where Problem-Solving Was Born 9:24 Patents, Companies, and Selling to Oracle 16:53 The Caterpillar Lesson That Changed Everything 22:07 Planting the AI Seed in a Beginner 30:38 Both Camps Have It Wrong 37:45 The Chatbot Better Than the Call Center 48:15 How AI Actually Works — No Math Degree Required 58:41 ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok — Are They the Same? 1:07:15 Data Centers: Myths and Realities 1:14:03 Where Does Your Data Actually Live? 1:16:46 AI Is Already in Your House 1:19:34 Using It More, Trusting It Less 1:25:17 The ER Story: AI and Your Health 1:40:25 Why Grown Adults Are Mean to a Machine 1:53:32 Kids, Cheating, and School in the AI Age 1:58:22 Personas, Data Brokers, and Who's Watching 2:02:32 AI Fakes, Deepfakes, and Guardrails 2:11:08 Take Your Privacy Back This Week 2:16:52 The Question That Keeps Parents Up 2:19:51 The AI Bubble and Your 401(k) 2:25:45 Data Centers, Round Two: The Backlash 2:31:10 AI for the Small Business Owner 2:40:56 Machines That Decide Who Lives and Dies 2:43:59 The Moral Floor 2:45:28 The Military AI Nobody Talks About 2:49:10 Bringing Everybody Home 2:54:29 AI Doesn't Know What's True 3:07:25 Inside Shawn's Businesses 3:26:05 Talk to It Like a Consultant 3:28:23 When AI Is the Wrong Tool 3:29:44 The Honest Reason for Hope 3:30:52 The Luckiest Moment in History 3:34:18 Shawn's Dream + Close ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch · 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast · 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall

  4. Aug 12

    The Kid Nobody Bet On Who Became a Green Beret Colonel | Max Krupp

    Colonel (r) Max Krupp will be the first to tell you he doesn’t tell war stories — you have to pull them out of him. Over 28 years he became the first Texas Army National Guardsman in history to earn the Green Beret, wore a Bronze Star with Valor for a single day in Kandahar Province that by rights should have killed him and the Afghan company he was advising, and was on the Army’s fast track to general — then walked away from all of it to raise cattle in Texas. This is the full conversation: the kid nobody bet on who did the hardest thing on offer every single time, then chose the quiet work. ▶ Watch the full conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Nsg0OY-8RhY Retired U.S. Army Colonel Max Krupp sits down with The Vanguard Wall for a full-length interview spanning 28 years of service: enlisting in the New Mexico Army National Guard at 17, Ranger School, Long Range Surveillance, and becoming the first Texas Army National Guardsman to earn the Green Beret and Special Forces tab. He walks through a 13-month Afghanistan deployment as a combat advisor embedded with an Afghan National Army company, the day in Kandahar Province that earned him a Bronze Star with Valor, the Special Forces Q Course and SERE school, commanding the only airborne infantry battalion in the Texas National Guard, and why he traded a general’s track for a one-man cattle ranch raising black Angus beef. A rare, honest veteran story about leadership, service, and the quiet work after the uniform comes off. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold open 2:22 Meet Max Krupp 4:36 Growing up on the El Paso border 16:03 Where the military got in his blood 19:44 Military school in Roswell 26:00 Enlisting in the National Guard at 17 40:58 Long Range Surveillance & G Company 1:07:33 Ranger School 1:17:13 The Army kills the LRS program 1:38:52 Afghanistan: the advise-and-assist mission 1:44:08 Riding with the 82nd Airborne 2:13:27 The day in Kandahar 2:26:00 Aftermath, medevac & the Apache pilots 3:05:52 The Green Beret Q Course 3:11:09 SERE school 3:46:14 ODA life: the Guam jump mission 4:34:04 Walking away from a general's star 5:19:02 Raising the beef: grass vs. grain 5:56:48 Inside the cattle business 6:28:24 Leadership: the best and the worst 6:45:11 His kids, and the through line ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall

  5. Aug 3

    The Marines Said No. He Retired a Command Sergeant Major. | CSM Mac McAlister

    The Marine Corps turned him down at eighteen. Twenty-four years later, CSM (Ret.) Donald "Mac" McAlister retired at the very top of the enlisted ranks — a Legion of Merit, two Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart, with five combat tours behind him: two in Iraq, three in Afghanistan. This is one of the most honest conversations we've ever recorded. Mac takes us from a self-described "heathen redneck" childhood in Hammond, Louisiana to carrying caskets at Arlington with The Old Guard — where he learned the lesson that made him: "none of the honors are for you; they're for the family." From the invasion of Iraq and the 82nd's biggest firefight since WWII, to October 8th, 2003 — the roadside bomb that nearly killed him, and the medical retirement he refused so he could fight his way back to war. Into the Arghandab, the valley no army in history ever held, and the men he lost pieces of himself beside. And through all of it, the demons he still carries — and the wife and daughters who saved his life. A warrior, a philosopher, and a wild card — metalhead, horror-film actor, and one of the few senior leaders of his generation still reaching back to the soldiers who once feared him and now line up to hug him. Follow Mac: Instagram @don_mcalister_aka_mac CHAPTERS 0:00:00 Cold Open 0:04:17 Meet CSM "Mac" McAlister 0:04:40 Growing Up a "Heathen Redneck" in Hammond, Louisiana 0:07:50 The Father Who Rode a Kid's Bike 15 Miles to Work 0:09:52 Expelled — and the Lesson That Made Him 0:15:24 Metallica, Metal, and Music as Therapy 0:22:49 The Warrior Bloodline — and an Uncle Lost to War 0:25:45 Suicide, Reframed 0:44:44 Basic, Airborne School & the Road to the Old Guard 0:45:35 The Old Guard — Carrying Caskets at Arlington 1:00:33 "The Funeral Isn't for the Soldier" 1:22:49 The Colonial Musket That Blew Apart 1:34:57 Hawaii and the 25th Infantry 1:59:53 9/11, Re-Enlisting for the 82nd, and Going to War 2:16:44 As Samawah — the 82nd's Biggest Firefight Since WWII 2:33:03 "I Think They're Shooting at Us" 2:52:54 Clearing the City 3:29:03 The Metallica Hat They Found in Iraq 3:32:23 October 8, 2003 — the Day That Changed Everything 3:47:21 The Photo He Posts Every October 8th 4:14:16 Coming Home — Reunited With His Unit 4:30:00 Rules of Engagement and Real Leadership 5:00:45 Into the Arghandab — the Valley No Army Could Hold 5:20:50 98 IEDs, 11 Amputees, One Company 5:50:55 Losing SSG Brunkhorst 6:27:27 Leadership Lessons Forged in Combat 7:00:00 Retirement and the Hardest Transition 7:11:06 The Intervention That Saved His Life 7:22:13 Diane — 33 Years, and the Family That Saved Him 7:27:01 His Daughters, His Grandbaby & Who He Is Now ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall

  6. Jul 16

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

    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 ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall

  7. Jul 10

    Man of War Director William Kaufman on Ukraine, LaMonica Garrett, and Films That Don’t Lie

    Director William Kaufman brings Man of War to The Vanguard Wall — a grounded military action thriller set on the opening morning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, starring LaMonica Garrett and out now on digital via Well Go USA. LaMonica Garrett (1883, The Lioness, The Terminal List) plays Connor, a burned-out ex-operator at the lowest point of his life when a girl he's spent years protecting calls from a Kharkiv orphanage — the morning the invasion begins. Kaufman co-wrote the film, shot it in Bulgaria with a crew he calls family, and cast real Ukrainian refugees in key roles, including a woman with an actual drone-strike scar on her face. Jason Patric reprises their collaboration from Shrapnel as Connor's ex-CIA handler. Andrew Howard (Limitless) plays Danny Sudhakov, a Ukrainian fixer and the film's moral center. Kaufman’s thesis, stated publicly and repeated in this episode: “This is not a political movie. We’re not picking sides. We don’t have a political agenda. This is a movie about people caught in the middle of war. War is ugly. It’s a monster. It eats up everything.” The film carries that through with a dual-perspective script — Connor and Danny hold opposite views on the conflict by design — and with a level of gear authenticity (Lead Devil Belts, tech adviser Max Krausz) that veteran audiences will clock in the first five minutes. Kaufman is a U.S. Army Cavalry Scout veteran and Christian filmmaker who has never lived in Los Angeles. This is Kaufman’s fourteenth feature. He’s the director behind Sinners and Saints, The Hit List, Shrapnel, The Channel, and Osiris — twenty years of work built outside Hollywood, with crews rooted in New Orleans and Sofia, Bulgaria. The press track record speaks: “Kaufman creates taut suspense and dynamic action” (Variety), “Absolutely riveting” (HFPA), “Kaufman’s movie stands out because he doesn’t miss a beat” (RogerEbert.com). Man of War is out now on digital. Watch it on Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/man-of-war/umc.cmc.j9guu91a0zqhlj5w8osaf1u9 Follow director William Kaufman on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/williamkaufman_director/ ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch · 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast · 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall

  8. Jul 2

    Inside Canada's SWAT: An RCMP Tactical Leader & Sergeant Major | Seb Lavoie

    Seb Lavoie is the most decorated operator most people have never heard of. Over 20 years he went from a French-Canadian kid with no childhood memories to a soldier, a covert air marshal, an ERT tactical operator and team leader, a court-recognized tactical expert, and the Divisional Sergeant Major over 8,200 people — then pride cost him his leg, and faith rebuilt him. Hostage rescues, the Surrey Six gang murders, an explosive breach gone catastrophically wrong, the cost on his family, rock bottom, and the conversion that changed everything. The Vanguard Wall’s first RCMP guest and first international guest. ▶️ Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wyy01D7FYT8 CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Introduction 00:09:00 Why He Can’t Remember His Childhood 00:14:30 Growing Up French-Only in 1970s Quebec 00:19:57 Bruce Lee on a Black-and-White TV 00:23:19 From Kung Fu and Muay Thai to BJJ 00:29:36 Becoming the Bully: Juvie and a Path of Destruction 00:33:13 The Roadside Moment That Pointed Him to Policing 00:39:38 Bouncing, Labor Disputes, and the Quebec Biker Wars 00:43:59 Weekend Infantry Basic with the Van Doos 00:50:13 Why He Left the Military for Policing 00:55:25 Inside the RCMP: Canada’s National Force 01:02:45 Depot: One Academy, Paramilitary From Day One 01:17:04 Posted to Tofino Speaking No English 01:29:12 Combatives Training and the Cop He Chose to Be 01:41:50 First Time Things Went Bad on the Street 01:48:38 The Parking-Lot Talk Before a Bar Fight, Outnumbered 02:04:54 Complacency, the 501st Stop, and Soft Shifts 02:22:16 Where He Was on 9/11 and What Changed 02:27:47 Going Covert: The Air Marshal Years 02:38:06 Chasing ERT: Canada’s SWAT 02:51:17 ERT Selection and the Training Pipeline 03:01:44 First ERT Call: A Machete and Two Hostages 03:13:47 Becoming a Breacher: Explosive Entry 03:24:39 Six Executed: The Surrey Investigation 03:49:20 Maritime Tactical Ops: Taking Down a Boat 04:03:32 Stepping Up to Element Leader 04:19:30 Leaving the Team: The Cost on the Family 04:31:11 Divisional Sergeant Major for All of BC 04:39:56 Leadership Dilemmas and Delivering Bad News 05:00:09 The Decision to Retire 05:07:35 Compartment Syndrome to a Below-the-Knee Amputation 05:17:45 Finding Faith Later in Life 05:26:26 The Moment That Changed Everything 06:00:46 The Roots of Orthodox Christianity 06:23:05 Building Raven Strategik 06:35:56 Final Word: The Power of Discernment 🔗 Connect with Seb Lavoie 🌐 Raven Strategik: https://ravenstrategik.ca 📚 Books — Raven Praxis Press: https://ravenstrategik.ca/raven-praxis-press/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slavccmdr ⚔️ Hoplite Nutrition — serious supplements for those that run towards: go.thevanguardwall.com/hoplite — code VANGUARD15 📰 Free Weekly Intel Brief: intel.thevanguardwall.com 🏪 Merch: go.thevanguardwall.com/merch · 📸 IG: @thevanguardwallpodcast · 🎥 YouTube: @TheVanguardWall

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Long-form interviews with combat veterans, special operators, and first responders — the people who did the hard things and carry them home. The host, an Army and law-enforcement veteran, goes deep on the moments most podcasts skip: the call made under fire, the teammate lost, and the long quiet work of putting it back together. Guests include Green Berets, Rangers, Delta, MACV-SOG, CIA, pilots, and police — plus founders, filmmakers, and voices in health and resilience. For warriors, and the families who love them. New episodes every other week. Contact: admin@thevanguardwall.com

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