217: Taking on veteran suicide with retired Navy SEAL Dave Berkenfield
We are joined today with Dave Berkenfield. Dave retired after spending 25 years in special operations having served as a Navy SEAL beginning in the 90’s and retiring only a couple years ago. Today, he...
9 Sep 202257min
216: Life as a US Army drill sergeant with SFC Corey Jones
We are joined in this episode today with Corey Jones. Corey is a Drill Sergeant at Ft. Benning, Georgia where he turns Army recruits into infantrymen and women. We discussed the challenges, rewards, a...
2 Sep 202245min
215: So much goes into training our military
Preston just completed his 2 weeks of Army Reserve Annual Training at Ft. McCoy, WI where he helped facilitate a reserve brigade's readiness training at the operational level. He and Sayre discuss so...
26 Aug 202230min
214: Nick Laidlaw of Battles and Beers
We are joined by Nick Laidlaw. Nick is a former Marine Infantryman, who from that experience, now has a passion to share the extremes of the human experience in warfare. His website, Battles and Beers...
19 Aug 202250min
213: Mike Dowling - A US Marine, Author, Producer and Veteran Advocate
Mike Dowling is an Emmy nominated producer, author, and veteran advocate based in Los Angeles. Mike enlisted in the Marine Corps in 2001 and was in boot camp when 9/11 happened. Enlisting on an open c...
12 Aug 20221h 13min
212: Can the US Military Defeat an Insurgency?
Something that bothers me when I think about the last 20 years of war is that we, the United States, don’t have a solution to modern insurgency. If we couldn't figure it out over 20 years in two coun...
8 Aug 202241min
211: US Army Airborne School and Religious Affairs with Austin Knight
We are joined in this episode by Austin Knight. Austin serves in the active-duty Army as a Religious Affairs NCO where he’s currently assigned to the U.S. Army Airborne School. We spoke to Austin abou...
5 Aug 202257min
210: Taliban, al Qaeda and Afghanistan before 2001 with Steve Coll
In this episode, we are joined by Steve Coll. Coll is a New Yorker staff writer and reports on issues of politics, intelligence, and national security in the United States and abroad. He has written a...
29 Jul 202252min
