Army Rangers Hunt High Value Targets to Kill or Capture

Growing up in Los Angeles, Alex Aguilar joined the Army at 21 to get his life on a better path. He became an elite Army Ranger, one of the toughest soldiers.
In this Urban Valor episode, Alex shares his intense combat experiences hunting down and trying to capture or kill high-value targets in their own homes overseas. He talks about the life-or-death decisions he had to make on these dangerous missions.
Alex also opens up about getting shot while deployed in Afghanistan. He describes recovering from his injuries and pushing himself to get back into the fight.
Perhaps most powerfully, Alex discusses the challenges he faced transitioning to civilian life after an honorable discharge from the Army. Going from battlefield to home isn't easy.
Get ready for a real and relatable look at the battles Alex fought as a Ranger - both overseas in combat and within himself upon returning home. His story shows the true grit and heart of our military's finest.
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  • @UrbanValorTV
    @UrbanValorTV19 күн бұрын

    ➡ SUBSCRIBE & Turn on All Notifications to never miss a weekly episode of Urban Valor ➡ LIKE the video to show our Veteran Guest your appreciation ➡ COMMENT any questions or to show your support! We, or maybe even our Veteran Interviewee, will answer when we can!

  • @3time_gaming353
    @3time_gaming35319 күн бұрын

    Crazy part is watching all these videos got me inspired to join and im in ait right now still watching these videos.

  • @danieljay952

    @danieljay952

    18 күн бұрын

    What does ait mean?

  • @thecalabungaboyz9500

    @thecalabungaboyz9500

    18 күн бұрын

    Haha, I watched a ton of compelling war stories and it caused me to join as well. Four years into the infantry and I’m a week from ETSing. Time flies

  • @hazenmachia5503

    @hazenmachia5503

    18 күн бұрын

    ​@@danieljay952 advanced individual training

  • @hazenmachia5503

    @hazenmachia5503

    18 күн бұрын

    ​@@thecalabungaboyz9500reenlist like I did

  • @hazenmachia5503

    @hazenmachia5503

    18 күн бұрын

    11B?

  • @Cybersboiii
    @Cybersboiii15 күн бұрын

    This man is the most wholesome spec ops vet I’ve ever seen. Thank you for your service, Alex.

  • @MelordJenkins
    @MelordJenkins19 күн бұрын

    Guy that comes from something is extremely captivating. Always respect someone who is true to themselves

  • @edsmetaldetecting31
    @edsmetaldetecting3117 күн бұрын

    I was a Damage Control in the Navy, I was a firefighter for 26 years total. I am proud of you Alex!! God Bless!!

  • @frenchfriestv72
    @frenchfriestv7219 күн бұрын

    I love this channel I can’t stop watching it can’t wait to start my service

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    🙏🏼Appreciate you watching. Keep us posted on your journey when you do sign up 🤙🏼

  • @christoph9587

    @christoph9587

    18 күн бұрын

    Thanks for your service. Much appreciated!!!

  • @frenchfriestv72

    @frenchfriestv72

    17 күн бұрын

    @@UrbanValorTVyes sir

  • @Worstpersonsingular
    @Worstpersonsingular11 күн бұрын

    Man this guy is cool as hell, seems like a great guy

  • @Thebluesky0311
    @Thebluesky031119 күн бұрын

    What a warrior, greatly for men like this to serve our country!

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    Appreciate your support 🤙🏼🇺🇸👊🏼

  • @ClarkBent604
    @ClarkBent6049 күн бұрын

    Love this mans attitude. "I got what I bargained for", some dudes just built different.

  • @David-ug8jc
    @David-ug8jc18 күн бұрын

    I’m a firefighter in Texas. I just started, and it’s people like him that make me feel excited to be working in that career. I had a spidey sense this whole episode that he ended up working in that field from the start.

  • @bksvdb
    @bksvdb19 күн бұрын

    Alex, Thank you for telling your story! - It reminds me of someone I know who was in 1/75 and deployed to Mosul. - It's fascinating to hear about what it's like to live and work in the 75th Ranger Regiment, because most people will never experience or live that type of life. Your story is similar to his in many ways even though they are years apart. I have always admired that Rangers are professional, have a strong spirit, live life to the fullest, and stand up for what is right no matter the consequences. You guys are amazing and an inspiration. Sending positive vibes!

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    Appreciate it brother

  • @duncanidaho0175
    @duncanidaho017519 күн бұрын

    SUA SPONTE RANGERS LEAD THE WAY GOD BLESS BROTHER

  • @ikaikakukaniloko3416
    @ikaikakukaniloko34169 күн бұрын

    Some of the funniest times in battalion is reminiscing over the different smokings we got from different leadership. 🤣

  • @lorrainefrost6285
    @lorrainefrost628519 күн бұрын

    Honorable man.

  • @michaelkenmatsumoto826
    @michaelkenmatsumoto8263 күн бұрын

    My brother described it as having a tab means you know how to fight like a ranger. The scroll means you fight like a ranger all the time.

  • @justinplaysguitar
    @justinplaysguitar5 күн бұрын

    Man I joined the air one infantry in 2006 great Memories. I was hungover and asleep in the plane

  • @The89delta
    @The89delta18 күн бұрын

    Respect from another OEF 12 veteran.

  • @JefferyPrice
    @JefferyPrice3 күн бұрын

    Thank you for your service and thank you UV for bringing these stories to us ❤

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    Күн бұрын

    Thanks for listening🙏🏼

  • @michaelkent2203
    @michaelkent22035 күн бұрын

    I love Alex's attitude!

  • @GrantPatN
    @GrantPatN19 күн бұрын

    Please Consider Including Time Stamps…Thanks 🙏🏻

  • @Newbobdole

    @Newbobdole

    19 күн бұрын

    That’s actually a good suggestion, especially now that there are chapter title cards

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    Will work on that, thanks for the suggestion 🤙🏼

  • @KazzArie

    @KazzArie

    18 күн бұрын

    @@UrbanValorTVsometimes I listen passively, doing dishes or working, etc and when the topic changes it’s a tad confusing. When you asked the questions it was a bit better. Doesn’t take anything away from their monologue story imo. Regardless how you decide to conduct your channel and content I’ll be watching and listening.

  • @christoph9587

    @christoph9587

    18 күн бұрын

    ​@KazzArie I agree 100%. I enjoyed when he would ask the questions. Hope he reads your comment!!!

  • @michaelsizemore1398
    @michaelsizemore139819 күн бұрын

    Bravo 2/54 1st PLT March 1997, 1/327th Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne. I fell to the ground like a sack of potatoes! I am proud that I was a 11Bravo1P. Let's fucking go! Ranger's Lead the Way! I failed the swimming test in RIP. We had to run from Airborne school to the 75th Ranger Regiment with all of our stuff. We didn't get a bus ride. RIP was the biggest ass kicker ever!! If you can't run a 5:30 minute mile you will die. Airborne Wings, Air Assault, EIB. I was a RTO for a battalion commander after being in a line unit. This man has bigger balls than I do, and so do you! Don't give up!

  • @cbboiii1100
    @cbboiii110017 күн бұрын

    This dude is rocking a rolex pepsi... lucky bastard

  • @GolfRemoEchoGolf2

    @GolfRemoEchoGolf2

    5 күн бұрын

    I saw that too !

  • @Jtat2
    @Jtat213 күн бұрын

    He said a lot of stuff that I needed to hear in the last two segments. Thanks for a great interview

  • @MAA-hu3do
    @MAA-hu3do19 күн бұрын

    I got to work with SFC. Celiz in Iraq in 2010 - 11.

  • @jethrox827
    @jethrox82714 күн бұрын

    Another great interview 👍

  • @harleyd9857
    @harleyd985713 күн бұрын

    I showed my PTSD therapist these vids. and she’s assigning them now, so that’s cool!🤘

  • @robgutkowski7141
    @robgutkowski714119 күн бұрын

    Great interview.

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    Appreciate you watching 🤙🏼🇺🇸

  • @YukuuS13
    @YukuuS139 күн бұрын

    That scales piece at the end is such a great message!

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    8 күн бұрын

    Thanks brother 🤙🏼

  • @stevenshipman6290
    @stevenshipman62908 күн бұрын

    Great video great story thanks for sharing

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    7 күн бұрын

    Thanks for listening

  • @FredFrederick-yg9hd
    @FredFrederick-yg9hd19 күн бұрын

    Nice.

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    Thanks for watching 🤙🏼

  • @jeremiahcorbett2944
    @jeremiahcorbett294419 күн бұрын

    Awesome

  • @jacobgill4808
    @jacobgill480818 күн бұрын

    When you said you had that patchy beard it make me pictures of the guy on Team America dressed up in disguise

  • @MrStaybrown
    @MrStaybrown18 күн бұрын

    I was at my 1st duty station in okinawa and the Cpl's used to smoke us, until we received some StaffSGT's off the drill field. They informed the Cpl's that we were all Marines and there are no recruits. So if you want a junior Marine to push, you better be pushing with that Marine. So Cpl's rarely resorted to smoking anyone because they knew junior Marines would out PT them.🤣

  • @melvinmartin9295
    @melvinmartin929519 күн бұрын

    I went to jump school in February 2011, I probably missed your class by a couple months

  • @stevewilson7819
    @stevewilson781913 күн бұрын

    12 minutes into this. Have to take a tactical pause to point out that there are many differences between services. During my 23 years of service as a Marine I never witnessed or heard of a fuckfest in any units. Much less during recruit training.

  • @tigerleoneinc.9282

    @tigerleoneinc.9282

    11 күн бұрын

    I know. Imagine the night before graduation another platoon runs naked into your squad bay with socks on their dicks with garbage can lids and other objects to brawl. And a DI calming saying, "C'mon guys, knock it off. You had your fun."

  • @rickypickles2219
    @rickypickles221918 күн бұрын

    adrenaline is a crazy thing man

  • @ghostlyoperator
    @ghostlyoperator19 күн бұрын

    I really wish genesis wasn't a thing. I would have been in if it wasn't around.

  • @johnnyb8629
    @johnnyb862919 күн бұрын

    excellent narrative of your experience BTW, but it struck me when describing the incident with the women and her baby. When you think about all the evil shit people do to one another during conflicts, either in war or economic conflicts the truly evil acts are not so much the soldiers who must dispatch the opposing soldiers but the media and the people who control the media. Think of the power projection, a single soldier can only do so much, a squad, a bit more, a platoon even more a helicopter pilot and his gunner even more yet ect. The power to convince other people to do things like blow themselves up and their baby from perhaps a few people and the internet, or radio or whatever, is where the real power is. To convince a whole country to back your plan to invade another country no matter what hardship it will bring to them simply because you have brainwashed an entire country or significant part of a country is the ultimate power projection. This realization is why we will do whatever we can to be the first to have AIG and ASG and who ever achieves it first will win. The power of a computer to manipulate the masses via artificial news, images and media generation. I was just watching a pole from China asking them if they agree with the russian invasion of Ukraine and they do by 50% or more. They also blame the US and NATO for the Russian invasion. We all know who controls the media in China and this feels like preparation for something coming. Preparing your country to do something they probably wouldn't normally do if they could see all sides of reality. China doesn't even have artificial general intelligence yet, think about how that same pole would turn out if they did have one generating images and false news and media. With all this being said, at what point does it make sense tactically to cut the head of the snake, so to speak? What countermeasures do we have to combat this new type of warfare?

  • @davemellor828
    @davemellor82815 күн бұрын

    This guy is great

  • @user-jx2gw4cn2j
    @user-jx2gw4cn2j11 күн бұрын

    Predator was my favorite movie growing up too. I think me and this guy would be friends.

  • @Chrysler_Solo
    @Chrysler_Solo19 күн бұрын

    Salute🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    🤙🏼🇺🇸👊🏼

  • @tigerleoneinc.9282
    @tigerleoneinc.928211 күн бұрын

    Dude said it was "freezing" in November in Ft Benning. 🤣

  • @dennyboy3840

    @dennyboy3840

    7 күн бұрын

    We’re from California, we’re not used to that cold weather at all

  • @tigerleoneinc.9282

    @tigerleoneinc.9282

    7 күн бұрын

    @@dennyboy3840 - Who is we? And btw California is a really big state, and I assure you it gets very cold up north...especially in the Sierra Nevada range area...

  • @dennyboy3840

    @dennyboy3840

    7 күн бұрын

    @@tigerleoneinc.9282 We as in myself and Aguilar. He’s from Los Angeles, I am too. And down here it doesn’t get as cold as Northern California. I’m sure it gets pretty cold up north. Farthest I’ve been up north is SF

  • @tigerleoneinc.9282

    @tigerleoneinc.9282

    7 күн бұрын

    @@dennyboy3840 - Understood. It gets a little nippy in the hills of Camp Pendleton (North San Diego County) especially Case Springs...but yeah typically it does get a bit more cold in the Southeast USA, compared to SoCal.

  • @dennyboy3840

    @dennyboy3840

    7 күн бұрын

    @@tigerleoneinc.9282 Pendleton has to be the best base to be stationed in, in all California. Nothing compared to the crappy conditions in 29 palms.

  • @playmaker7331
    @playmaker733118 күн бұрын

    Great story, appreciate your service! I have to ask, what kind of watch is that? That mf is nice!! 🤩

  • @UrbanValorTV

    @UrbanValorTV

    18 күн бұрын

    Thanks for watching 🤙🏼

  • @RahimLadhajuma
    @RahimLadhajuma14 күн бұрын

    Legend 🪖

  • @chuckamucksc
    @chuckamucksc10 күн бұрын

    Sharks and Minnows - that was a huge part of RSS Pensacola. Navy RSS - it was high stress, fast paced training. The trainers were sharks and the candidates were the minnows. Problem is, some guys let that power go to their head. RSS Pensacola 1987-88 the instructors were smoking one guy in my training class. Lee Mirecki - only reason I say it is because the instructors that drowned him were prosecuted and found guilty of an array of charges. The whole rest of that class just felt all wonky.

  • @oscarjimenez5115
    @oscarjimenez51153 күн бұрын

    Am I tripping or is there like waterfall in the background

  • @davelane4055
    @davelane405517 күн бұрын

    WHOOAH

  • @Lucho0335
    @Lucho033518 күн бұрын

    😮

  • @gabrielfelixmunoz739
    @gabrielfelixmunoz73917 күн бұрын

    can't find him on ig

  • @alexaguilar8823

    @alexaguilar8823

    16 күн бұрын

    It’s @the_alexaguilar

  • @RackeddUp
    @RackeddUp9 күн бұрын

    Prior Air Force but hated it so I got out really quickly but I wanna reenlist In the army this time. Planning to go infantry for a year, two Max n just train for ranger. I’d love to be able to take part in HVT missions and really have fun doing what the military was bred to do. God willing a few years from now i might be having the best worst time of my life

  • @bluewave2024
    @bluewave202418 күн бұрын

    RLTW

  • @mikelee2870
    @mikelee287018 күн бұрын

    AIC?!? Good grief it’s AIT

  • @Tre3x777
    @Tre3x77713 күн бұрын

    RANGERS lead the damn way. God bless and enjoy life bruh.

  • @Shawn-fd4nc
    @Shawn-fd4nc15 күн бұрын

    RLTW Buddy

  • @justinplaysguitar
    @justinplaysguitar5 күн бұрын

    Count to 4 thousand not 6 thousand

  • @conanyancidelacruz7615
    @conanyancidelacruz761517 күн бұрын

    looks filipino roots...

  • @hazenmachia5503
    @hazenmachia550318 күн бұрын

    Being indoctrinated and acclimitization of the new guys is not 'hazing'.

  • @dogevanzandt2889
    @dogevanzandt288916 күн бұрын

    God you rangers are so annoying

  • @tigerleoneinc.9282

    @tigerleoneinc.9282

    11 күн бұрын

    I know right? Bunch of back slapping, self-fellating, non swimming, spoiled soldiers who take 100 men to kill 1 or 2 goat herder "HVTs". "Rangers lead the way HUHHHHHHH!" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @hazenmachia5503
    @hazenmachia550319 күн бұрын

    You're gonna lose alotta viewers in those first 2 minutes. Really makes you reflect on how f****** up your life is hearing how good this guy had it growing up

  • @hazenmachia5503

    @hazenmachia5503

    19 күн бұрын

    I'm not one of those viewers**

  • @jamescaliendo1030

    @jamescaliendo1030

    19 күн бұрын

    So wait....if a dude grows up with good parents, good discipline, and good family....he can't relate to others ???

  • @hazenmachia5503

    @hazenmachia5503

    19 күн бұрын

    @@jamescaliendo1030 not at all what I said 🤙 but run with whatever you wanna run with hoss lmao

  • @jamescaliendo1030

    @jamescaliendo1030

    18 күн бұрын

    @hazenmachia5503 ok it seems like you have a problem with how he was raised.

  • @bluewave2024

    @bluewave2024

    18 күн бұрын

    Huh? There are ppl who have normal parents that have gone thru sum stuff

  • @user-oo2st5be3y
    @user-oo2st5be3y2 күн бұрын

    So you were a loser for a short timd and joined the military. Like my friend. Now he acts like he won the medal of honor lol. We're no longer friends 😂

  • @TravisFletcher-wz9db
    @TravisFletcher-wz9db16 күн бұрын

    KZread are you making subliminal threats again? Threats you can't back up as well.

  • @kg117nike
    @kg117nike18 күн бұрын

    Thanks for Sharing!

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