Doug Marcaida was born in the Philippines, and in an episode of Forged in Fire in June 2017, he got injured. That kept him off the show for the rest of that season, but since then, he has returned.
2015 was the year that Forged in Fire started and Marcaida has been one of the judges since its very first season.
Doug Marcaida’s Ethnicity as well as Nationality
Doug Marcaida is a Filipino. Born in the Philippines, the talented knife designer, maker, and TV personality spent the first 17 years there before making his way to the US of A. He has been in the States ever since.
Doug Marcaida holds dual Filipino-American nationality. He is Filipino by birth, but given that he has spent a good amount of time in America, there is every likelihood that he has gotten citizenship. So, remember what we said above, Marcaida came to the United States at age 17. Three years later, he joined the United States air force.
Eight is the number of years that Marcaida spent in the military; he was deployed in logistics and cardiopulmonary fields. He left later but has maintained a good connection with the military. He conducts training for them.
He is also a military contractor. Given all this, the 59-year-old Doug Marcaida must have applied for, and afterwards acquired, American citizenship.
What Happened to Doug Marcaida on Forged in Fire?
On an episode of Forged In Fire in June 2017, Doug Marcaida injured his shoulder. He was just trying to test a blade that a contestant made. He struck it against a dummy, but the blade wasn’t so sharp. This caused a shock and impact to his shoulder that injured his rotator cuff.
The injury forced Doug Marcaida to seek medical help, and he later underwent surgery to repair what had been torn. This forced him to miss numerous episodes of Forged Fire and his brother RJ as well as a fellow judge, had to step in to fulfill the tasks that he performed while he was out.
Doug Marcaida’s Injury and the Care After
Doug Marcaida injured his shoulder, specifically the rotator cuff, during an episode of Forged In Fire in June 2017. It could have well meant the end of his TV career, and so he sought specialist help for it. Within a year, he had fully recovered.
Doug Marcaida was also treated by a highly respected sports medicine and orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Christopher Brown of Canandaigua, New York, and he left a testimony on his website publicly.
Marcaida has been able to go back to work on Forged In Fire, and fans continue to see him on their screens weekly.
The Arrest of Doug Marcaida – Any Truth to This?
Doug Marcaida was not arrested, and neither has any judge associated with Forged In Fire been arrested.
But, there have been some arrests connected to the name of the show.
In December 2017, John Gomes, a 51-year-old New Yorker wanted to try his hands at what he was seeing on Forged In Fire. He, without meaning to, set fire to his backyard that spread fast and destroyed three residential buildings, while damaging another 28. He was charged with arson and reckless endangerment. Mercifully, nobody was killed.
Now, let us go to Lincoln, Nebraska. The period is January 2022 and a man is arrested by the cops for stealing a weapon that was made on Forged in Fire by one of the people who have thrown their hat into the ring on the show.