Urban Valor: the podcast
Urban Valor: the podcast
Urban Valor
Long Beach Gangster Wanting a Warrior’s Death Survives 55 Months in Combat!
55 minutes Posted Mar 3, 2026 at 2:00 am.
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55 months in combat. Three Iraq deployments. Countless missions in Mosul. And when it was over… he didn’t want to come home. In this Urban Valor Podcast interview, JayR McIntyre opens up about surviving 55 months in combat, losing over 20 soldiers, being issued a body bag, and battling severe PTSD after returning home. This is a powerful United States Army combat story about survival, mental health, and the reality of war. JayR grew up in gang culture in Long Beach before joining the U.S. A...