A little over a decade and a half ago, a television show production company got together and thought it would be compelling to pit animals against humans in specific competitions and film it. The showcase was appropriately called Man vs. Beast. They had a orangutan take on a sumo wrestler in a tug-of-war, Takeru Kobayashi take on a bear in a hot dog eating contest, they had dwarfs battle elephants in a contest and a world-class sprinter race a giraffe and a zebra to see who was fastest.

They also pitted a Navy SEAL against a chimpanzee to see which one would finish a military-style obstacle course first.

The competition was a lopsided affair, as one of the opponents ran away with the race both figuratively and literally from the get-go …

There’s also an extremely tragic aspect to the clip, however, all these years later.

The SEAL who competed was an American named Scott Helvenston.

While working as a security contractor for the now-blasphemous Blackwater Security firm in 2004, Helvenston and three other contractors were killed during the Fallujah ambush mere days after arriving in Iraq.

After joining the United States Navy at the tender age of 17, he became the youngest person ever to complete SEAL training. He spent 12 years in the service and was honorably discharged as an E-6, before going onto Hollywood, appearing on television in numerous places (including the one above) and working as Demi Moore’s personal trainer for a time in accordance with her role in the military film G.I. Jane (1997).

In 2012, a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of the four deceased contractors titled “Helvenston et al. v. Blackwater Security” was settled out of court after it had been previously dismissed by a U.S. district judge in 2011.

The families’ allegation was built on a purported personal vendetta held by Helvenston’s superior, Just “Shrek” McQuown, and deliberate endangering of the men’s lives by being cheap and no supplying them with adequate resources to defend themselves and/or prevent such a deadly attack.

Just a half dozen years prior, believe it or not, Blackwater had sued the families’ lawyer for $10 million claiming the lawsuit itself was a breach of contract.