by Michael F. McNamara | Apr 24, 2017 | Iraq, OIF, Post Traumatic Stress, TBI, US Army
CPT Pat Horan, US Army
Patty Horan
Patty & Pat Horan
Pat Horan, CPT US Army (ret), and his wife Patty Horan joined the program to discuss what it is to live with a traumatic brain injury. In a candid interview we cover:
Part 1: Pat’s career, how he was wounded and how Patty was notified.
Part 2: Rehab, Patty talks the pressure of researching & choosing facilities for follow-on rehab
Part 3: Living today, finding purpose in life and the frustrations of not being able to read and to write.
When asked about how his life is Pat responded “Every day I wake up and the first thing I do is thank God I’m still alive, that’s the greatest thing ever. The second thing is Patty, everything she’s done since I got hurt is just incredible, putting me back together was because of her.” An incredible story.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Apr 19, 2017 | Iraq, Leadership, OEF, OIF, Post Traumatic Growth, Post Traumatic Stress
MajGen Paul Kennedy joins the program to talk combat leadership. MajGen Kennedy was the 1st Marine Division Plans Officer for “The March Up,” commanded 2d Battalion, 4th Marines in Ramadi in 2004 and the 2d Marine Regiment in Helmand Province in 2010-2011. In 2013 he was assigned as Commanding General, 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade, where he led the initial response to Operation DAMAYAN (Philippine typhoon, 2013) and Operation SAHAYOGI HAAT (Nepal earthquake, 2015).
He is currently the Commanding General of the Marine Corps Recruiting Command..
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by Michael F. McNamara | Apr 11, 2017 | Foreign Affairs, Iraq, ISIL, Russia, Syria, US Navy
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis (L) and Army Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of U.S. Central Command, at the Pentagon in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
SECDEF James N. Mattis and the Commanding General of CENTCOM, General Joseph Votel, briefed reporters today on details of the Syrian airstrike, more refined bomb damage assessments, the intelligence that led to the airstrike and the message that was intended.
MUST LISTEN.
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by Michael F. McNamara | Apr 5, 2017 | Iraq, ISIL, Syria, Vietnam
Tom Draude
BGen USMC (ret)
Tom Draude, BGen USMC (ret), joined ALL MARINE RADIO to talk:
(1) The Pentagon’s policy of not discussing troop movements
(2) Why are we in Syria? To remove Assad? To defeat ISIS? Are we certain?
Tom also discuss “close combat” in Vietnam and recounts an battle during which he gave the command to “fix bayonets.”
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