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GEN JOHN ALLEN, USMC: our options in North Korea
TWELVE OF OUR FIRST SIXTEEN PRESIDENT’S OWNED SLAVES — WHAT NOW? Phil Smith
Phil Smith is a retired as a Colonel from the Marine Corps and is a student of history. He joined us to talk about how we should treat the history of the Civil War, the post-civil war period and slavery.
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GENDER IN THE COMBAT ARMS & HAVING A WILL: John Ubaldi
John Ubaldi
MGySgt USMC (ret)
Founder, The Ubaldi Reports
John Ubaldi, MGySgt USMC (ret) joins us to talk current events. His first piece of advice — GET A WILL! After that we talk about the difficult issue of gender in the Marine Corps.
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PEER TO PEER SUPPORT: Alex Hollings
Alex Hollings
Former Sgt, USMC
SOFREP Contributing Editor
Alex Hollings, former Sgt USMC was supposed to join us and talk about the gathering of clowns in Charlottesville VA over the weekend, but instead we discussed mental health and the absolute necessity for Marines and all veterans to stay plugged into their battle buddies.
GREAT STUFF from an candid writer who isn’t afraid of the truth.
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD SAFETY STAND-DOWN & HELO DUNKER TRAINING? Boomer Milstead, LtGen USMC (ret)
Bob “Boomer” Milstead
LtGen USMC (ret)
Bob “Boomer” Milstead, LtGen USMC (ret) joins us to discuss helo dunker training, who needs it, how often should it happen and the incredible life saving power of HEED oxygen bottles.
Boomer also discusses with us the importance of Safety Stand-Downs and how safety is a function of doing things right and how leadership makes it all work.
An awesome interview with an interesting and accomplished Marine General Officer.
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THE GAZETTE’S MOST POPULAR SEARCHES, CHARLOTTESVILLE AND WHAT’S NEXT FOR CONFEDERATE MEMORIALS ON OUR NATIONAL BATTLEFIELDS? Chris Woodbridge
Chris Woodbridge
Col, USMC (ret)
Marine Corps Gazette
Editor & Publisher
Chris Woodbridge, Col USMC (ret), is the Editor and Publisher of the Marine Corps Gazette, joined us to talk about the August issue of the magazine but we got side tracked by a discussion about the magazine, it’s most popular searches and Charlottesville.
Interesting question: Will the monuments at Gettysburg be next?
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WHAT WOULD CHINA DO? Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Would China actually allow the Korean Peninsula to fall into western hands if North Korea struck first or would they intervene?
Could Chine effect a regime change in North Korea if it so chose?
Will India go to war over the territorial disagreement that has Chinese and Indian troops facing each other?
Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret) joins us to talk about it.
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Investing in Marines — Getting the best return: Carl Forsling
Carl Forsling
Maj USMC (ret)
Carl Forsling is a retire Marine Osprey pilot , businessman and a writer for the website Task & Purpose. He joined the program to talk about his article that won the Marine Corp Gazette’s 2016 Kiser Family Irregular Warfare Essay Contest with his entry entitled: Investing in Marines: Getting the Best Return.
Carl also discusses how a MV-22 Osprey executes a controlled water landing.
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NORTH KOREA, DUNKIRK & SHRIMP: Kim Holmes
KIm Holmes
ALL MARINE RADIO
OFFICIAL CHEF
The ALL MARINE RADIO Head Chef joins us to talk movies and food after Mac updates the latest news on North Korea.
Kim reviews the movie Dunkirk (disappointed) and talks shrimp, prawns and scampi.
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LTGEN RUSTY BLACKMAN, USMC (RET): leadership & what’s new at the National Museum of the Marine Corps
NORTH KOREA UPDATE: Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham
Japan Forum for Strategic Studies
Senior Researcher
Col USMC (ret)
Is it folly to expect China to intervene in North Korea?
What do real “sanctions” look like?
We’ll talk about all of this with Grant Newsham, Col USMC (ret), a former intel officer and Pacific Rim expert. WARNING: Grant is not optimistic about the role China will play or that North Korea will cease and desist.
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CH-46 Makes a Controlled Water Entry During a Vertical Replentishment (VERTREP) (1987): We were talking about this today
During the program Mike Musselman and I were talking about this exact incident whichI witnessed while the Executive Officer of the Marine Detachment aboard the USS Ranger, CV-61 in 1987. Rob Schwarz, LtCol USMC (ret)… aka “Montana Man” sent me this link.
It’s an amazing piece of flying by a ballsy pilot.
HELO DUNKER COMMENT: Patrick Melton
One thing that your guest stated was talking about the egress points of the MV-22, I would say that knowing your egress points are only moderately important since there is no saying that the bird will be in only one piece. People who have never been in a crash are only providing a second hand opinion, I say this because I have first hand experience in this.
We crashed Aug 29th, 1986.
The helo we were in broke into 5 pieces after we hit another helo on the flight deck, we had crossed into the Arctic Circle earlier that day and the water temperature was 42degrees. It is a tragedy to lose any Marine, to have only lost 3 out of 26 is truly a miracle. We lost 8 out of 21 on our crash…..
The Corps needs to do a much better job of preparing our Marines for these type of crashes.
Semper Fi
CAPT LAUREN SERRANO, USMC: talks two articles she’s written — “Why Women Do Not Belong in the U.S. Infantry” & ” To Get Out, or Not to get out? Gender Crisis in the Marine Corps”
THIS IS A GREAT INTERVIEW!
Captain Lauren Serrano, USMC joined us to discuss her experiences writing and speaking about gender issues in the Marine Corps and the U.S. Military. Our frank discussion addressed :
(1) Individual Marine and public reaction to her first article “Why Women Do Not Belong in the U.S. Infantry”
(2) Her discussions with DOD PAO-types as she prepared of a CNN Military Forum where she was specifically asked to address the gender issue with President Obama
(3) Her motivation for writing her second Gazette article published in the July 2017 edition entitled “To Get Out, or Not to Get Out?: Gender crisis in the Marine Corps” — and her policy recommendations for retention of career oriented female Marines who desire to have children
(4) By virtue of pushing for higher physical standards for women, is the Marine Corps pushing women who desire to be mothers and career Marines out of the Marine Corps?
(5) Why the issue of gender is such a difficult for Marines to discuss frankly in open forums
Captain Serrano is a great example of a leader who speaks her mind in an articulate manner. She also offers all Marines substantial issues to ponder.
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IT ALL COMES DOWN TO LEADERSHIP — FROM VIETNAM TO 38 YEARS IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR: Ken Wilson
Ken Wilson
Capt USMC
Vietnam Veteran
Turner Construction vet
Ken Wilson was a Marine 1stLt/Captain, Combat Engineer in Vietnam in the 1965-1966 time-frame. Ken fought the Viet Cong initially and later the NVA as they infiltrated the area around the Marine Base at Da Nang.
Was leadership different in Vietnam? Were drugs, ears, scalps, civilian casualties and rape part of the environment Ken led in? Ken Wilson says it’s always about one thing — LEADERSHIP.
Listen to a fantastic interview about Ken’s life of leading in the Marine Corps and then leading at Turner Construction where he worked for 38 years before he retired in 2002.
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KID ROCK FOR SENATE, THE ROCK FOR PRESIDENT, ARSON PROTECTION AND LIVE FIRE PRISON TRAINING: Alex Hollings
Alex Hollings
Former Sgt, USMC
SOFREP Contributing Editor
Alex Hollings is a former Marine NCO and currently a contributing editor at SOFREP. He joined us to talk about Kid Rock running for Senate, The Rock running for President, changes to the Constitutions that would allow the federal government to work for the citizens, home fire protection and his recent trip to a prison that is now being used as a live-fire training site by SOF units.
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MEATLOAF, SCARAMUCCI & TRANSGENDERS: Kim Holmes
KIm Holmes
ALL MARINE RADIO
OFFICIAL CHEF
The ALL MARINE RADIO Head Chef joins us to discuss the Los Angeles Dodgers, transgender military service and meatloaf. Where else where you hear such diversity in broadcasting?!
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THE SOLDIERS PROJECT: Mike McDowell
Mike McDowell
Executive Director
The Soldiers Project
Mike McDowell, LtCol USMC (ret), is the Executive Director The Soldiers Project whose mission is:
“We provide free, confidential and unlimited mental health services to any active duty service member or veteran who has served since September 11, 2001.
We provide services to families and loved ones too – wives, husbands, partners, parents and children.
We don’t turn anyone away based on discharge status, branch of service, or whether they saw combat.
If you served, you get seen.”
It’s ground breaking stuff and sorely needed… we’ll find out what’s going on at The Soldiers Project.
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THE POTUS TRANSGENDER POLICY: John Ubaldi
John Ubaldi
MGySgt USMC (ret)
Founder, The Ubaldi Reports
The President yesterday announced on Twitter his policy decision relative to Transgender Service in the U.S. Military: “After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you.”
John Ubaldi, MGySgt USMC (ret), head of the Ubaldi Report joins us to discuss his thoughts on the President’s policy.
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1STLT KARL MARLANTES, USMC: the challenges of leading in Vietnam
VIETNAM MARINES ON MY LAI: Ken Rodgers, LCpl USMC
Then and Now…
Ken Rodgers, LCpl USMC, is a veteran of Khe Sanh. He joined us to talk about the environment that surrounded him in Vietnam. Stories of ear cutting, racism and rape are associated with the War in Vietnam more so than any other war America has participated in… what was the truth for those who served? Ken talks about his experience in Vietnam as a member of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment.
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SOMETHING I’VE NEVER HEARD: Survivors of Iwo Jima talk about what they lived through
These are the images that we associate with the Battle of Iwo Jima. Recently, I stumbled on to interviews with Japanese survivors of the battle, something I’d never heard before.
Listen to the conditions they lived and fought in, their combat instructions, the way they treated their wounded and how they ultimately turned to barbaric behavior as their food and water ran out and they knew their end was near.
Amazing audio. You can watch the source videos here: Video #1, Video #2, and Video #3.
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WAS LEADING IN VIETNAM DIFFERENT: MajGen Jarvis Lynch, USMC (ret)
Jarvis Lynch
MajGen USMC (ret)
We had extensive conversations about My Lai last week on the program. Jarvis Lynch, MajGen USMC (ret) — an operations officer in Vietnam in 1969 in Vietnam joined us to discuss what it was like to lead in Vietnam given the social unrest of the time in our natio.
Jarvis has very interesting things to say about drugs, rape and weak leadership during the Vietnam War and in any war. We discuss drugs, rape and leadership at My Lai.
We also talk about how the Viet Cong related to the North Vietnamese Army in an area of operations and an interesting story about a leprosy colony that full of healthy young men. Interesting stuff.
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LAMB CHOPS & RETIREMENT ADVICE: Kim Holmes
KIm Holmes
ALL MARINE RADIO
OFFICIAL CHEF
We mix food (lamb chops) and retirement advice today as we visit with the ALL MARINE RADIO Head Chef Kim Holmes.
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BGEN TOM DRAUDE, USMC (RET): Thoughts on the My Lai Massacre
KEEP YOUR HONOR CLEAN: My Lai — News Reports on the Trial of LT William Calley
We continue our look at the My Lai massacre with a look at the General Court Martial of 1LT William Calley, U.S. Army. The news report you will hear chronicles the trial and some of the significant testimony of that was presented.
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CAPT BOB NILSSON, USMC: Thoughts on the My Lai Massacre and its impact on Vietnam Veterans
KEEP YOUR HONOR CLEAN: My Lai (Part 4)
CPT Ernerst Medina
U.S. Army
Post-Combat related mental health… we talk about it… now you’ll get to hear what that burden sounds like from a man who is now 40 but cannot recover from the events that took place in March of 1968 that changed his live forever and resulted in three suicide attempts.
Listening to this will leave your jaw on the floor and your brain wondering why as a leader I was never taken through the details of these events.
All the reasons you need to “Keep Your Honor Clean” are embedded in these segments… as well as the reality of “what we do in life, echos in eternity” — Darius Maximux (from the movie “Gladiator) — which is a catchy phrase that teases the reality of post-combat related mental health… you’re NOT getting over it… you’ll live with it… both the good and the bad.
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KEEP YOUR HONOR CLEAN: My Lai (Part 3)
1LT William Calley
U.S. Army
This hour you’ll hear many of the same voices you’ve heard in parts 1 and 2… but 20 years later. You’ll hear the anguish of living with the action they took and did not take that day. The audio is absolutely gut wrenching.
Listening to this will leave your jaw on the floor and your brain wondering why as a leader I was never taken through the details of these events.
All the reasons you need to “Keep Your Honor Clean” are embedded in these segments… as well as the reality of “what we do in life, echos in eternity” — Darius Maximux (from the movie “Gladiator) — which is a catchy phrase that teases the reality of post-combat related mental health… you’re NOT getting over it… you’ll live with it… both the good and the bad.
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KEEP YOUR HONOR CLEAN: My Lai (Part 2)
How could an American rifle company kill over 500 civilians — elderly, women, children and babies? How did American soldiers rape women with other watching? How could the US Army Division, who owned that company, cover it up? How could only one person be convicted in the case?
How do they live with it?
What made one helicopter land and intervene in the massacre?
One of the most incredibly horrific events in US Military history and another example of “leadership at the point of confrontation” — you’ll hear their voices.
Listening to this will leave your jaw on the floor and your brain wondering why as a leader I was never taken through the details of these events.
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