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Welcome to Urban Valor, where we hear the stories of our veteran heroes in their own words. Within these vet interviews, you'll hear everything from combat stories, life stories pre/post military, military transition, and everything in between. Our interviews aren't just war stories or combat veteran interviews, but interviews from any military veteran willing to share. Our mission is to educate the masses with what military veterans go through while serving their country and how life has been since their military transition back to civilian life.
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Marine Corps First Sergeant Mike Van Daele survived the Second Battle of Fallujah, one of the most brutal battles of the Iraq War. In this powerful Urban Valor interview, the 21-year Marine Corps veteran takes us inside the 2004 Battle of Fallujah, sharing firsthand combat stories, intense urban warfare, the Marines he lost, and his personal struggle with PTSD after returning home. Mike served with 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1), including Lima Company during Operation Phantom Fury. He des...
What is it REALLY like being married to a Navy SEAL? For former U.S. Navy sailor Ashley Rogers, life as a Navy SEAL wife was nothing like she imagined. Urban Valor chats with Ashley as she reveals the hidden struggles of Navy SEAL marriages, the loneliness of military deployments, raising children while her husband was away, and the devastating discovery of infidelity that ultimately destroyed their marriage. But Ashley's story began long before she became a Navy SEAL spouse. Growing up su...
A U.S. Air Force officer comes face-to-face with armed Taliban fighters on a remote road in Afghanistan... and watches in disbelief as the senior officer beside him unlocks their armored vehicle and opens the door. What happens next is one of the wildest Afghanistan war stories we've heard. In today's Urban Valor Podcast, retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel John Spargur shares his firsthand experiences surviving Taliban attacks, suicide bombings, and a terrifying attempted abduction w...
In this Urban Valor Podcast, former Army Sergeant First Class Vincent Morales shares his unbelievable journey from growing up around gang violence in Kansas City, Missouri, to fighting through some of the most dangerous experiences of the Iraq War, including the Battle of Mosul, the 2004 Mosul dining facility bombing, and devastating roadside IED explosions. Vincent opens up about losing fellow soldiers, surviving repeated combat blasts, struggling with severe physical and mental injuries, a...
At just 18 years old, US Marine Corps veteran Manny De Anda witnessed the unimaginable during his deployment to Fallujah, Iraq. After a devastating explosion involving a 7-ton military truck carrying female Marines, Manny and his fellow Marines were among the first to arrive on scene. What he witnessed during that Iraq War deployment would stay with him for the rest of his life. In this episode of the Urban Valor Podcast, Manny shares his firsthand experiences serving as an 0311 infantry Mar...
In today's Irban Valor Podcast, Octavio talks about combat in Iraq, repeated IED attacks, losing Marines in his unit, being engulfed in flames, the medevac and ICU experience, learning to walk again, adapting to life with severe burns and a hand amputation, and the impact his injuries had on his wife and children. Octavio also opens up about what happened after the uniform came off...struggling with alcohol and drugs, losing his sense of purpose, rebuilding his family life, returning to his ...
Marine veteran Alex Hernandez survived an RPG blast while fighting in Fallujah, Iraq — an attack that severely wounded his tank commander and left Alex covered in shrapnel and blood. In this episode, Alex tells the story of going from a kid in East LA with no clear direction to joining the United States Marine Corps after 9/11, becoming an M1 Abrams tank mechanic, deploying to Iraq, and finding himself in some of the most intense fighting of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Alex remembers watching ...
Marine Staff Sergeant Tony Storey served 21 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including combat deployments to Somalia and Iraq. At just 21 years old, he led Marines into Somalia during Operation Restore Hope, survived a bullet striking the sandbag beside his head, and later endured a monsoon that flooded his fighting position with human remains. In this episode, of Urban Valor, Tony shares what it was like entering Mogadishu, serving as an 0311 Rifleman, training Iraqi security forces, and car...
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Welcome to Urban Valor, where we hear the stories of our veteran heroes in their own words. Within these vet interviews, you'll hear everything from combat stories, life stories pre/post military, military transition, and everything in between. Our interviews aren't just war stories or combat veteran interviews, but interviews from any military veteran willing to share. Our mission is to educate the masses with what military veterans go through while serving their country and how life has been since their military transition back to civilian life.
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