Cade Courtley
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Christopher Cade Courtley is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 TV show host. He is currently the host of Spike TV's
Spike TV
Spike is an American cable television channel. It launched on March 7, 1983 as The Nashville Network , a joint venture of WSM, Inc...

 and Discovery Channel's show Surviving Disaster
Surviving Disaster (TV Series)
Surviving Disaster was a simulation of real life disaster situations produced by Spike. Hosted by former Navy SEAL Cade Courtley, each episode retells situations in a worst-case scenario and what viewers can do to survive them. There have been ten episodes aired to date. The series was not picked...

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Height
6' 1" (1.85 m)

IMDb Mini Biography:

Born in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
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 but raised in Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...

, Cade spent most of his young adult life in the outdoors. Upon graduation from the University of San Diego, he was immediately commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy
United States Navy
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 and began Navy SEAL
United States Navy SEALs
The United States Navy's Sea, Air and Land Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command as well as the maritime component of the United States Special Operations Command.The acronym is derived from their...

 Training (BUD/S). After a very intense 9 years as a Platoon Commander that had him operating around the world, Cade decided to leave the SEAL teams to pursue other challenges. A chance phone call from Producer Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett is a British television producer and executive producer, based in the United States. He currently is the executive producer of five network television series with seven hours of network programming. Works with which Burnett is associated have won multiple awards and recognition...

 followed by an invitation to appear on a new TV series "Combat Missions" (2002) launched his next career in show business.

He broke his leg three times and fractured his skull during his Navy SEAL training.

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