Enduring Army Ranger Selection & Combat Trauma in Syria
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This week's episode of Urban Valor features Army Ranger Veteran and Netflix series host Cameron Fath. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Thousand Oaks, CA, Cameron’s fascination with guns and tactical training led him to enlist in the Army with a Ranger contract. Cameron details the relentless challenges of the Ranger selection process and the intense experiences that shaped him into one of America’s elite warriors.
He also opens up about his time in Syria, working in the operation room and witnessing the harsh realities of combat casualties. Cameron reflects on the struggles of returning to civilian life and how he found a new path as the host of Netflix's "Toughest Forces on Earth."
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Video Chapters
10:27 Boot Camp
35:19 Ranger Selection
46:42 Cole Rangers
1:00:36 2nd Ranger Battalion
1:08:21 Full Eagle
1:20:53 Ranger School
1:46:14 Into the Fire
2:00:22 Riot Control
2:03:30 The Transition
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U need some of us east coast vets on here.
Never quit! It will always come to an end turn your brain off and you’ll be okay!
Thank you for having me! I had a blast🔥
Thank you for your service 👍🏻👊🏻
Congrats 🎉
You going to Reunion? I was 2/75 78-82.
I love your energy. I'm a teacher and my favorite type of students are the hyperactive boys.
It was a pleasure to sit with you brother. 🤙🏻🪖🇺🇸
I was in RASP when Kobe died. One of the cadre made us sprint and touch that fuckin wall 24 times in honor of Kobe lmao This was after like a 2 hour smoke session with the worms and bear crawls. RASP was completely gnarly, feels like a fever dream thinking back on it.
did you make it through, brother?
Camerion Fath is one of the reasons I wanna become a Ranger I ship out in 15 days as an 11X option 40 RLTW Cameron
Good luck to you man
@@h6nkythx man rly appreciate it
Good luck and don't quit!
@@KITGODCam wasn’t planning on it
See you there bro!
Cameron miss your content on shift fire glad to see you on here!
He’s really good at telling stories and funny fr
The Cole
Range memories remain with me to
This day. 2008 RIP, before it became RASP. My cadre were SSG Shanaman, SSG Kap, SSG Edward’s. If you know you know. Best and worst time of my life. Crazy that Kap and Shanaman are gone now. Life’s crazy RLTW
I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DUDE❗
“Area beautification” 😂😂😂 from now on, that’s how I’ll refer to my yardwork
I can sit down and talk to this guy all day man! 💪💪
Cool dude saw his netflix show. It was good... ty 4 ur service
This dude sounds like me lol. I was into hip hop dancing since i was like 13 been dancing since. I got in trouble in osut for c walking in the mwr. A drill saw me and asked what unit i was in a happened to know one of my DS called him and said u got 5 mins to get to ur troop area, long story short got a nice like 3 or 4 hour smoke sesiion for "b bopping around like im in the hood" exact words from the DS 😂
That’s hilarious
Good guy and great story, luv it!
Great video man.
I’m shipping Oct 15th 11x opt 40, RLTW
More Cam content? Count me in.
Super detailed interview...cool ass dude
*Pew pew pew* “oh that’s just Bashir over there testing his AK making sure it still works” 🤣🤣🤣
Thats why telling soldiers " this is the best thing you'll do in your pathetic life"........ then you get out and depression hits because you feel worthless.
My son's currently going through RASP - this rings so true!
A veteran making fun of trauma in the first minute, gotta love it.
Shout out to OXNARD CA 805 !
RLTMFW!! 🇺🇸
Good on you man. But I never understood how people can join and go through all the trials to become special ops just to do one contract 4-5 years and then get out. Doesn’t make sense to me, all that work for nothing pretty much.
I’m betting the deployment cycle slowing down even being in Regiment played a role. I got out in 2016 and my last deployment was just different in OEF XV. I agree though. Shit happens I guess
@@Ferg173rd makes sense. He explained to me his reasoning also and it seems like all the training and then having slow deployment made it hard to want to keep going at it.
“For nothing pretty much” is WILD you’re a turd
Nothing going on. You get tired you get different ideas. You think of greener grass. The military is very glorified and looked at as cool but in reality it’s stressful, you don’t see your family, and it can be very depressing. Or should I say feelings of impending doom. So outside look in I could easily understand that thought process but if you been in you know exactly how easy it is to get out.
Dude, this guy is hilarious.
Great story love the show i couldn't remember where i knew him from till he said it lol breaking my head like i knew his ass hahaha .
Wow 😳
38.00 in brill video took me a bit to warm to him im not quite there yet but im invested 👍
anyone know who makes the shirt he's wearing?
KitGod. Made by him
It’s me
Mindles behavior Africa Americans is insane but definitely was loved by every black girl in 2012😭😭
1:49:50 yeah that’s traumatic
👍💯🔥🙏❤️
🤙🏼🇺🇸👊🏼
Far too many of these Special Operations tough guys (most of them) can’t handle actual combat as evidenced by all these types of interviews.
Guy talks non stop 90 miles an hour
Eduring the shortest special operations pipeline*
Dudes personality is infectious
Bro your aura personality it's honestly just pure
I didn't know soldiers piss on each other in the barracks too, I thought that was a Marine thing. Remember, no one is ever too drunk to get punched in the face.
Infantry is infantry marines ain't special lol
Seen it in Diffa Nigeria, dude was filling sandbags for days. Solid justice not paperwork
I’ve been in both branches. When I was in Fuji we had a guy get drunk and piss in the middle of the squad bay while he was getting yelled at by the duty guy. As he was pissing he said “I’m not even pissing”. Also have seen a lot more dumb people and undisciplined people in the army though. Had a soldier show up in the PT uniform but had combat boots on…
I had a very similar experience at basic in 2017, the running around switching uniforms was nightmare the stealing chow and peanut butter packets the dealing with assholes and people with no common sense😂 Artillery does OSUT at fort sill, I think MPs do OSUT too at fort Leonardwood. Also the GT score of 110 gets you any job in the military I got a 111 as well! Props to you and great story brother! 🤜🤛
Infantry vet here. Love this dude
Man, talking about basic and all, got ol’ Sarge here feeling nostalgic. 🇺🇸💪🏼💪🏼
Love you Cam. Been watching you and Izzy for years. You guys are amazing. Thank you for telling your story
This dude is a badass story teller. Got me to laugh quite a few times
I remember while being deployed we'd workout like crazy, and when everyone was spent, someone would throw in the P90X ABB RIPPER video, and of course we had to complete it lol
lmao "He's a country singer now."
XO: I lost my command, I lost my commission, I lost my wife, I lost my truck, I lost my dog, I lost my…
Colombian civilian 🇨🇴 here. I really enjoyed the episode of Toughest Forces on Earth with the Comandos Jungla of our National Police. Cameron is the best. Greetings from Bogotá.
Saw the homie on Netflix lol. Seems like such a good dude. Thanks for sharing brother!
What show?
@@MrCashewkitty Toughest forces on earth
This dude is auwsome, thanks for sharing
I was 41 clubbed out of airborne school. It was super disappointing because I really wanted to join the Marines and did since I was a child. But I was lured away by the thought of being a paratrooper by my JROTC instructors. only for it to be dashed on day one. Then you’re doing bitch details for the airborne school until you get orders somewhere else. The worst part of that was the NCOs treating you like trash for failing the PT standard but I’m like dude I got a 275 on my PT test. It was an every day very personal harassment by those clowns. In basic everyone gets fucked with in a group. There it was being singled out and personally insulted and denigrated. Then they hide behind their rank. I lost a lot of respect for the Army as an organization there. It didn’t get better once I got to my unit.
I think it's hilarious that y'all slugged it out in the laundry room. We stepped into the stairwell, because it's the one place the drills never went.
I deployed with Pemberton 3 different times lol in the span of 2 years
11B, 12B, and 31B all do OSUT Cam you know this 😤
This guy is awesome!
I’m wondering if probationers have a search waiver in CA or it it was part of his probation. Unfortunately many times, police officers don’t have discretion in these situations. Especially with gun laws in CA
This guy 🥰🥰🥰
Is there 3 or 4 Ranger Battalion ?😂😂 love my Army..
4 deploying Ranger battalions within the 75th Ranger Regiment including RMIB. Ranger Training Battalions 4, 5, and 6. Ranger School (to get your Ranger Tab) it’s a leadership school.
This guy is a great storyteller
Dude your Syria deployment sounds a lot like mine. We were fighting Iranian proxies but it was just not as kinetic as I thought. We had 2 PH recipients on my outpost which was pretty good compared to Afghanistan.
Really good episode, I watch a lot of content with veterans and still Cameron had a lot of unique perspectives on his service. The domestic use of force bit was also news to me, kinda shocked to hear it. It has to be such a surreal and conflicted feeling operating in a home turf environment. Thank you for sharing your story and thanks to the channel, you guys do amazing work.
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Seems like when you quit, you become a civilian again.
Get Saga of Chris on the podcast he was a navy SWCC operator
"I never went personally." lol
You know there's other military vets that are from other parts of the country besides California.
You mean like NoCal?
He lives in California hence why majority of interviews are from California born vets lol. You expect this guy to start flying guys out and paying for hotels ?
@@Gearsguy300 yeah i was about to say, i feel like we might be forgetting that Urban Valor is a youtuber, and not like a multimillion dollar press/entertainment corpo. His thing is in-person interviews so doing the whole country as a guy with a youtube account is asking a lot for a man who presumably has a family
Make some suggestions then.
We're actually starting to bring other vets out to another location on the East Coast. Travel isn't really possible yet, but if you know a vet on the East Coast we can film them in Virginia.
It's tough, but we're getting there!
Recon Contract > Ranger Contract
Ignorance is bliss. Rangers have thier own recon one could assess for if they were up for the challenge.
@@ArmorOfZeus Apples and oranges comparison.
@@erics362right. which is why 75th ranger regiment has the militarys only tier 1 recce/recon unit. R.R.D. now known as R.R.C. apples and oranges indeed.
@@ArmorOfZeus I'm very familiar with RRC. The final portion of their training is to successfully complete the Marine Corps Basic Reconnaissance Course (BRC).
@@erics362 The more elite units in all branches tend to cross train, recon goes to airborne school too, it implies nothing other than the fact it is part of the job. Marines ain't special lol it's hard to grasp that concept when you've sipped on the koolaid for too long.
As a fellow Man myself, I can honestly say I wanna be friends with this man. Literally seems like just another one of the bros. Shout out to you broski💪🏽🤞🏽🫡
I was a tanker (19k) wanted to be a Ranger, never happened, but cool to hear the process from beginning to end. 🫡