Ray Mendoza
Appearances
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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Yeah, always wanted to join ever since I was a little kid. Maybe some would argue that Hollywood had something to do with that. Growing up in the 80s, some of the best movies in my opinion, Commando, Predator, Tombstone, you name it. I could go to all the Terminators. Uh, I don't know. It was something that was always attractive to me. Uh, that's serving. Um, do you know what I wanted to do?
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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Wasn't sure. Uh, it was a lot of information on the SEAL teams then like there is now or any really soft component. Um, always loved the water, always loved the beach. Um, and so as I got older, it was time to get out, uh, graduate high school. It was, uh, This still seemed like a good place for me to go and try out to see if I could do it. By chance, it ended up being kind of a perfect fit.
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I kind of dovetailed in with the mentality there. I grew up playing sports, always very competitive. It just really nurtured that. Suddenly, I was already there. Yeah, I showed up, and they're like, yeah, made it through training. Had a few hiccups here and there, but eventually checked into Team 5. Did three pumps there. Was a communicator right away. It was just by chance.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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They just needed a communicator. I was the first guy to check in. They're like, you're going to communication school. I was like, I don't know shit about radios. They're like, well, that's where you're going to communication school. Cool. Um, but it ended up being a good fit for me.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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Just, um, it puts you at the center of all information that gets disseminated, which, you know, the care, one of the character, the guy who plays me in the movies portrays that somewhat, um, yeah.
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And then, you know, obviously the war kicked off and just Iraq was just, uh, the insurgency, you know, typically we're, we're, we're kind of farmed out, you know, we're not big enough to have our own battle space. Uh, so it's usually we're attached to some army or Marine Corps battalion or some Army Marine Corps brigades. And then we were used accordingly as this, you know, very surgical tool.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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Um, yeah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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Yeah, there's a lot of components to how I came to this. to that. Just wanted to make this way to answer your question. I think it starts with how I got into the movie industry, which is with Act of Valor, which is like the Navy's essentially attempt to grow the SEAL teams.
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At the time, in 2000, right after Red Wings with Marcus, we were losing a lot of SEALs, whether that's them getting out or just dying. So we were gaining, I think, once in a year at the time. It wasn't enough to expand the SEAL teams by any means. So it was like, we got to get the word out. We need people to join the Navy. So yeah, it's active element. That's where I got introduced to filmmaking.
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I met the stunt coordinator, Scotty Wall, Basil Coy, who, you know, stunt guys turned movie makers or the directors met them met a bunch of other stunt guys other producers Yeah, I started like day playing as a stuntman. And then Lone Survivor came around. Marcus Trowell gave me a hoot. Hey, I'd love you to train the cast.
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And that was my first experience behind the camera, which that's like a whole different world. When you're in front of the camera, especially for the act of valor, everyone's catering to you. You don't really understand how things work. But on this, I saw how it all just like dovetailed together.
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And what was very attractive to me was the structure, which was multiple department heads working in kind of concert with each other to achieve one thing. In their case, it was a movie. In our case, it's typically a mission. And so just that was just like, oh, this is very similar. There's like the pressures of time. Someone having to make a decision. For them, a movie making time is money.
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We're talking millions of dollars. um some people don't like making those hard decisions uh i do i'm like thriving that shit uh i want to be the guy to make the big decision this is awesome i love this shit um and so yeah it was like just a cool medium to tell stories uh that's probably where you know so then this is 2014 um When this first happened, Elliot doesn't remember what happened.
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So when he woke up, obviously he had a lot of questions. No matter how many maps we drew and how many times we answered his questions via email, it just almost raised more questions. I think because he didn't have that core memory visually, it just raised a lot of questions from big picture questions of why, what, to the little questions of what color things were.
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so you know after Lone Survivor that's where I think that first seed was planted I was like well maybe one day it'll you know, I could just do like a 30 minute recreation of what happened. Uh, I never, did I ever think it would be a movie on this scale. Um, so I just started to learn the tools and there's like other, you know, as you start, I started, my name started to get around.
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I started working on other films, uh, was Dave Payne, some guys in all the different shows in LA. Um, And just learning more. And then between jobs, tech advising jobs, at the time nobody knew me. I was a PA in camera department. I worked in production and I sat in editing rooms. So I was just kind of really learning how to speak this new language. Because I didn't
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want to give it to somebody, um, a lot of great film directors and who have done more movies. Um, I just felt they always miss something, uh, whether they miss representing the culture, uh, because they weren't there. Um, and so I just felt like it's all anecdotal for them. Um, so I was like one day, I think I'm just going to keep acquiring the skill sets and the tools, um, to do this myself.
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And a lot of things had to be in line. Meaning the people who were funding it had to let me, because I didn't want to change anything. Anyone involved, yeah, I was just on board with it being very, very factual. It was going to be a recreation for Elliot and I didn't want to do it any other way. If it wasn't going to happen that way, then I just wasn't going to do it.
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Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Coincidentally, when he was editing Civil War, I built out who's seen Civil War. Yeah. Yeah, so there's like that whole White House piece externally eventually making the way into the corridor to the final corridor of the Oval Office. So I built all that out for him. you know, I just created this kind of 360 freaking playground for him. It's pretty, it's pretty fun.
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It's pretty awesome. So things are concurrently happening. Uh, there'll be like, he's like, no matter where you point the camera, Alex, something's happened. I just created, this is like 360 amusement park for you. Uh, I said, yeah, it was just, he loved it. Um, but in editing that, I think he saw something. He saw all the other directors. Yeah.
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He saw the, you know, I like to use the watch analogy, which Alex saw all the little cogs that are moving, or most writers just see the big cogs in the watch. He saw like every little moving part, all the connective tissue. And I was like, interesting. Because I was watching how he shot it and what he was focusing on. And I was like, shit.
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And that stuff has always been there for all the other guys. They just didn't see it. And so, yeah, editing, he kept it in there. I think he noticed this weird verite, kind of grounded, just really almost like you're just documenting your style of action. that he really liked. So he gave me a call. It was like, Hey, uh, I'm editing this thing and it's fucking really, really awesome.
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Uh, I would love to do like a full length movie like this. Uh, it's going to be minute by minute, real time, no time compressions. Um, if it didn't happen, it's not going in the movie. Uh, we can't, we can only slide the window. Uh, we can't expand it or fragment it. Do you have any stories? Uh, and I, you know, I know there's a lot of stories. Um,
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But it also had to be like a bunch of check marks based off the budget. It needed to be somewhat contained, which this story was. And so I had asked my friends and I asked myself if I was ready to do that, just even just emotionally. And I knew my friends were going to have to be involved, so I needed to make sure they were on board.
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And the only way we were, like I said, the only way we were going to do it was... we had to represent it accurately as possible because it was somewhat going to be, it was my only chance. I'm not going to get another chance at doing this. And so Alex was like, that's the way I want it. And I was like, perfect. And they were like, let's do this shit.
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Yeah. I mean, I think, uh, I've talked about this a lot and, you know, with lacking narrative, lacking dialogue where, you know, I, I wouldn't argue, but I think every character has an arc. They treated them like that. They had arcs. Um, But, yeah, I think we like to treat, and even myself, when I go in and watch a movie, I like to treat it like I have some intelligence, like I'm not an idiot.
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I don't like being spoon-fed stuff. So there's a lot of subjects in the movie, sure. So I think we want to treat everybody like adults. And it wasn't so much on the why, you know, why the war had happened, You can go down a rabbit hole on why you think the war happened. From oil to weapons of mass destruction, you name it, government corruption. I've read, heard, and seen them all.
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Well, that's not for you to make that decision. I don't need to throw my hat in the ring on why. Because it doesn't matter why. Nobody gave a shit about why when we did it. But now they care about why when I make the movie. So for me, it's more about the what. What is combat? What happens after stuff like this? What happens when you're young?
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uh it's your first time and you get a grenade thrown in so it was more about the what what does it feel like what does it sound like um and that's that was kind of our focus um and uh if you want to know why then go yeah you know internet's a powerful tool you should go look up why you can't go to that um yeah what's that moment like and not in the movie in
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Yeah, that was, I think, when we all, when we, after the IED and I drug Elliot into the house there. That was for me about the time where I was like, yeah, if they wanted to rush this building, you know, we'd take a few of them with us. But yeah, we'd be done. Uh, we all knew that we were, uh, our position at that time was, was crippled. Uh, if they wanted to, yeah, we were done.
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And I, I remember like we all think the same cause we're always, you know, we were put when we train, we, you know, we simulate a lot of these, uh, there's no way to predict, uh, two guys getting blown up. But, you know, we do these, these down man drills and we do mass casualty drills and, uh, you know, how to prioritize and execute. Like, all right, these are the priorities.
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If you have a mass, you know, multiple injuries and your position is compromised, here's what you're supposed to do. Uh, and a lot of that is just this theory. Um, Because then you don't know what the enemy is going to do. So you can train so much. And we train the failure in a lot of things. And they're like, all right, what'd you learn? We do it again. And then they'll add something new.
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So we were constantly training the failure to kind of anticipate those things. But there's just something you can't anticipate, which is like being concussed. You can have a checklist, but if you're concussed, now we're talking about a physical attribute that is not opinion-based. It's a very physical injection of something.
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It's something being inserted that's physical that you can't manipulate or power through sometimes. When you realize that in a moment of being concussed, you know, half your force has been cut down and with one explosion, uh, you feel this real sense of vulnerability. Um, And yeah, other than just like, hopefully the movie described it.
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I have a hard time describing what it is, which is kind of why I made the film. You know, some people paint, some people write poetry, some people write songs or write a tune on a piano or guitar. For me, I like doing it. I can do it in movies. I can convey it.
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through pictures uh versus talking about it um i can talk about it like i said i can handle it i just don't have the words to describe it it's just too specific of an event to describe how i was feeling and it's not just one emotion it's fear anger regret like fuck i should have worked out harder damn it i can't drag elliot up the driveway
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And you're just like, I can't do anything about it now, but now I have regrets. Because I should have more on leg day type thing. So yeah, you know, it's a lot going on there.
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Yeah, I mean, there's some things that, like, there's, like, basic, I think, operations that happen. Magazine changes, I'll give you an example. Magazine changes. I don't remember doing magazine changes, but I did them. at the end because they had me three magazines in there and I was like, I don't, I was like, oh shit, I don't remember going through this.
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So there's like things like that, those mundane things that you do because you've done it thousands of times. So your brain is like, okay, you're operating on low bandwidth right now. I'm taking over. And you're just on autopilot. You're doing some of those basic things and you're not even aware that you're doing it. So now you're just focusing on the things that you normally don't do.
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Like I'm not a medic. Uh, I mean, I, while everyone was doing like live tissue training, like I was probably dropping bombs in some desert somewhere doing training on aircraft. So, uh, I just didn't focus on, I got basic stuff, but I'm, so now I'm like, I, I can't worry about all the other things.
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I'm trying to like, remember what I learned, you know, a year ago about tourniquets and, uh, morphine, uh, packing wounds and stuff like that. Um, So, yeah, it requires a lot. But I think there's times where we're all concussed and we're all going through these ins and outs. That's the beauty of a team. I think there's times where I was blacked out.
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One minute I'm nailing it, the next minute I'm standing. What happened in between that? But someone else is doing something in between that. And I think they probably noticed I was passed out or just like, who knows? Who knows what the fuck that was then?
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um but we're all kind of helping each other and we just need a lot of times you see like 30 seconds to just like get it back and like all right cool i'm good i'm back in and we're all kind of like taking turns with each other um until the other ops arrives so it's very much a team effort um Like I said, a lot of it's autopilot stuff, but there's just things that you just notice.
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It's what's ingrained in us. It's like always find work, always find work. Even as I'm trying to get out or applying pressure onto Elliot's leg, Joe's leg, like I'm trying to make calm.
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Yeah, I mean, I think, yeah, there's definitely a disconnection from the top.
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um and how what decisions are being made for to the person who's executing on the ground 100 uh you can find examples of that in every major company the person who's in you know in the trenches working i'm sure they get a sense of like the guy who runs this thing has no idea what's happening uh and that's like the culture of it right um The why, again, we're trying to get into the why.
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So, yeah, the why, I don't question it too much. I think I could at the time. I can now. I can look back and say, okay, let's see, one, why it started. Two, why did we stay there so long? Could we have been out of there? Could it have more people to save? 100%, yes. Can't argue that. With the ROEs constantly being changing, the restrictive ROEs, and it's all optics.
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As a JTAC, we have some of the most accurate, like the amount of money we dump into our munitions and how accurate they are. And they're worried about collateral damage. You're like, but that's why we spend so much money on these damn munitions. Why these contractors are getting all this money to design these awesome weapons.
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And we can't use them because optics, because, you know, we bomb a school. There weren't any school children in it, but the optics is we bomb a school. Like, well, the insurgency took over the school. There weren't people in the school because they don't allow kids to go to school, women and little kids to go to school. So there wasn't any students there.
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So it's just like optics and things like that where you're like, you know, And instead, we end up throwing a main gun around through that thing and the building collapses anyways. But just because the optics of us dropping bombs on somebody looks so bad, where instead we just run it over with tanks. It's the same end result. It's just the optics look different.
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I guess dropping bombs from an airplane looks bad versus, like, sending a main gun around through it and collapse, you know, throw a barrier around and collapse and it doesn't. It doesn't make any sense. So when you're on the ground, you're like, that doesn't make any sense. They don't care that the school dropped down. They just care how it was dropped down, the optics of it.
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So that's kind of like the sense that you get. The flip side of that is, you know, we're not animals, man. There's a lot of things we did. Once you're there and you see that there's a misurgency, which they're not local Iraqis. It's called a misurgency for a reason. You know, they're, they surge from other countries.
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And oftentimes, you know, they would force some guy who had a family like, hey, you're going to go plan an IED. If you don't, we're going to chop your wife's head off. So he does. And then we shoot him. We don't know. We don't know that the guy was forced to do that. He probably does not want to do that. 100% he doesn't. I know he doesn't. So there's like these situations you start to discover.
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All right, cool. All right, so now that we know this, you start to discover that there's these people that need help. It doesn't mean like we're their savior and we're trying to like Show them to Jesus. It's like, no, you do see that there's this insurgency that's coming in. They're doing things to little boys and girls and women, forcing men to do these things. And they're evil people.
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And, uh, we, we helped as many, you know, we would put on clinics for women that were beaten to death and kids that were taken advantage of since, you know, and we try to help them out because we have the money and we have the facilities to do it. So we went, nobody told us to do that. That was just us contributing. We're, we're also living in their, their, their towns and their cities.
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And if we can help, uh, we would, but simultaneously there's a lot of evil people and,
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In a selfish way, it's like, I think we're doing some good here. It may not last forever, which it didn't. ISIS came in, created a vacuum, and then ISIS came in. For the time we were there, I think for the bad stuff that was going on, some of the decisions you have to make on the ground, quick decisions too. Sometimes guys live with those.
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Guys have taken their lives for those decisions they made, and some can't live with them. um you have to try to find some sort of good i think we did i think you know obviously you have your friends and things you do for each other but we really you know there's a lot of effort that goes into helping the local people uh it just never gets reported but i've witnessed it so in a lot of ways
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Oh, man, I was nervous. Yeah, that was like the first gate I had to go through. That was the most important one. I could care less, but I do care. But, you know, it's something to realize that your movie sucks. Whatever. It's not for you. Yeah.
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so uh but yeah so they uh yeah the guys who helped with it did the interviews but also some of the guys that were just at other ops uh with a lot of guys came to watch it and They liked it. The same kind of same reaction you had. A lot of people have is just super realistic, immersive. And Ali was there as well. He watched it for the first time. It was like a rough edit.
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So the sound design wasn't what it was. Now, I mean, they since have seen a updated version, but at the time it was a pretty rough cut. But we all were all around Elliot. And we're just like, all right, man, you now. And we all agreed this is about as close as we're going to get. So each guy was just like, yes, that's what it felt like. I felt I was represented well.
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So as accurate as you could represent me. So as accurate as you could represent the event that day. And in the spirit of it, you know, Alex says this a lot. If there was GoPros in this house, it wouldn't be exactly the same thing as a movie. Um, but I felt, yeah, it was totally like, Hey, that's as well as accurate as you're going to get. Uh, so you, you now know what we know.
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Uh, hopefully that fills that gap in your memory. Uh, as far as accurate as it's going to get. Most people don't get that.
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No, thanks, sir. Thanks for having me. Thanks for watching us and the support as well. Thank you.