The kind of story you really can’t make up. Craig Morgan spent 17 years in the Army and Army Reserve, serving the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions as an E-6 Staff Sergeant and Fire Support Specialist. Since then, he’s remained an avid supporter of all of our service members. In 2023, Morgan publicly announced he would continue his service to our nation by re-enlisting in the US Army Reserve, where he’ll be assigned to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, as a Staff Sergeant and Warrant Officer candidate. When Morgan first enlisted, he was only 18 years old, and he became an emergency medical technician, which required extensive training to prepare you for battle scenarios and more. While Morgan was stationed in South Korea in the 1980s, he spent some time at Korean Ranger School, which put the soldiers through very intense scenarios, including a prisoner of war simulation. During a recent sit-down on Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast, Bunnie asked Morgan to recall a story he previously told on Tracy Lawrence’s TL’s Roadhouse podcast, where he shared he once ate a live chicken while stationed in South Korea. “In the Korean Ranger School, there’s a two-week portion of that nine-week course, I think actually ten days, where you go through a POW encampment scenario. So you’ve basically been captured, and they place you in the camp, and your objective is to escape from the POW camp. That’s what you’re told. And all you know, you don’t know anything except the experience you’re encountering right then, and you have a location as to your safe house, the place you’re trying to get to. So if you do get outside of the camp, you’ve got to get to there. But what you don’t know is all these little communities that you’re running through, all of those local Korean people are paid good money if they turn you in. So if they see someone from the camp, I mean, they’re literally… They do patrols to look for people that are trying to get out of the camp so they can get rewarded. And we escaped, myself, two other Americans…one other American and two KATUSAs, which weren’t Korean Army, they were, they’re what they call Korean Augmentation to the United States Army.” Morgan then explains to Bunnie Xo what a KATUSA is and how they support the United States Army. For those not familiar with the term, KATUSA stands for Korean Augmentation to the United States Army, and it consists of South Korean enlisted soldiers assigned to and serving within the Eighth United States Army. While this program began during the Korean War to augment US forces, it has continued as a permanent program since then. Morgan also explains that while he was in Korean Ranger School, KATUSAs also underwent US Army training and programs, which helped foster international relationships. He continues: “But we escaped, and we got out. Well, we’re running, we literally weren’t 200 yards from the little encampment, and we realized at this point that people were following us and they were trying to turn us in. So I told them, ‘We can’t stop.’ And it was about two miles from where we were. Now, mind you, we probably hadn’t eaten in four or five days. The only thing we had eaten was bugs that we caught and rice that grew up through the pins that we were being kept in. Anything that flew in there died. I can’t even tell you the kind of stuff that I ate. And I can tell you, it seemed like it tasted good. I just remember it tasting good.” Morgan then says that we were forced to do two hours of workouts in the mornings and evenings, which made them hungrier and led them to what some might deem the unthinkable once they had escaped the POW modulation. “We’re running through, and we come across these chickens, and one of KATUSAs yanked the chicken up. He grabbed it, and we just kept running, and while we were running, he was plucking this chicken, and he would hand it over to each of us. We were trying to get this chicken, and finally one of ’em got its neck rung. But I promise you, before that chicken’s heart stopped beating, we were all taking chews out of it. Eating on it, that’s how hungry…and it was good.”  Gnarly… I mean, it sounds unbelievable, but if you were on a day for our five of no real food, I can imagine many others would be desperate for some sustenance, and that poor chicken was the prey that day. Is eating a live chicken as risky as eating raw chicken? Something tells me it’s safer but I really have no idea… I have a feeling this is just one of many wild stories Morgan has from this experience, given they were trying to hide from locals as well while heading to their safe house. The story starts at the 14-minute mark. Check it out: The post Craig Morgan Recalls Eating A Live Chicken While Military Training With Korean Rangers: “We Were All Taking Chews Out Of It” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.