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'Surviving Disaster' host Cade Courtley on leaving Hollywood: I couldn’t express my ‘love for this country’
When Navy SEAL Christopher "Cade" Courtley left the military after nearly 10 years, he knew he could never stomach the daily grind of working a desk job.
Christopher "Cade" Courtley (born December 30, ) is a retired American television host and a former Navy SEAL.
He was too hardened.
The author and former host of Spike TV’s "Surviving Disaster" told Fox News he was "living a double life" when he exited active duty, explaining that in the months before his final salute, Courtley, 52, had begun performing stunt work in San Diego, California.
There, he fell in love with the prospect of doing high-octane, adrenaline-pumping maneuvers for a paycheck.
He soon moved to Los Angeles, where he began cutting his teeth as a more seasoned on-camera talent – not as an actor but as a guy with a story to tell.
"It was a natural progression for a guy in the SEAL teams; it just kind of made sense," said Courtley.
"I was doing more and more of that. I was meeting some of the people, the directors, b