Getting combat advising right in the long-term: Gil Barndollar & Sam Long

Gil Barndollar
Capt, USMC

Sam Long
Capt, USMC

Gil Barndollar & Sam Long were advisors in Afghanistan.  They wrote a Marine Corps Gazette article entitled “Putting the First Team on the Field: Irregular warfare and Marine Combat Advisors” — we’ll talk about the article with both authors.

“21st Century Logistics” is the theme in this month’s Marine Corps Gazette

The Editor & Publisher of the Marine Corps Gazette is Chris Woodbridge, Col USMC (ret).  Woody joined the program to talk about the October 2017 edition of the Gazette and it’s Combat Service Support theme.

As usual, we’ll also talk current events with Woody who is a candid guest.  Great stuff.

 

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?

 

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.