Feb 21, 2020
Tonight's episode is from a retired soldier, 1sg David Jeffers, Dave and I served together for 2 years back in the mid 1980’s when we were young and for lack of a better term full of a lot of bull. In those two years we hung out a lot together and enjoyed life, dave learned he had a passion for teaching and he was...
Feb 7, 2020
Richard A. Guenther - A potential draftee who joined the Navy verses being drafted in the Army in 1953. It worked out well for Richard and he had a great tour of duty in the Navy, minus the almost 2 ½ months of Mess Hall duty he had to serve.
Richard served a total of eight years of service primarily out of Naval Air...
Jan 31, 2020
SGT Fred Castaneda is a proud veteran Paratrooper who served in Vietnam with the 23rd Infantry Division commonly referred to as the Americal Division. https://americal.org/cmsaml/ The Americal Division is a contraction of "American, New Caledonian Division". This was unusual, as most U.S. divisions are known by a...
Jan 24, 2020
Today’s story is about a Cold War soldier who served in the Army in Germany at one of the key periods in the cold War.
In 1961 Joe Wasz 19 was drafted into the service, he like a lot of soldiers drafted and similar my brother Dennis Winn, who I interviewed on my podcast took the draft into his own hands and...
Jan 15, 2020
WWII Combat Paratrooper - It is my honor to share this story with you about Darrell G. Harris. He was one of the first paratroopers in the American history of the Airborne and also one of the first awardees of the CIB badge (Combat Infantry Badge).
Below is a snippet from the comments provided to me by Fred...