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Ask A Vet Podcast is a long-form conversation where veterans share their service experiences in their own words, with respect and control over what they choose to talk about.
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What I Never Knew About My Father Killed in Vietnam (opens the original)
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This episode is a little different. Amy Rodman Little isn't a veteran, but the daughter of one who never came home. Army Captain David "Dave" Rodman was an artillery officer, former Big 33 football star, and devoted husband and father. He was killed in Vietnam on May 8, 1968, while helping pull wounded soldiers onto a rescue helicopter. Amy was four years old. For most of her life, Dave was a name on a plaque, a theater in Germany, and a box of sympathy cards. Then, at 30, Amy found a box in her
EP 61: What They Don't Tell You About 22 Years in the Air Force Supply Chain (opens the original)
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When Saigon fell in 1975, retired Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Scotty Acton was stationed on Guam — and watched over 50,000 Vietnamese refugees pour onto an island 8 miles wide. In this episode, Scotty takes us through 22 years in Air Force logistics: keeping fighter jets flying with "mission capable" parts, riding out a Category 5 typhoon with no water for 13 days, midnight runs across German air bases to save weather reports, the Ramstein air show disaster, and racing the clock for parts d
What You Never Heard About Vietnam’s Combat Radiomen (opens the original)
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Larry grew up in and out of foster homes across the West and landed in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love — homeless, drifting, and certain he was headed nowhere good. He enlisted in the Army looking for structure. He got Vietnam instead. Assigned as a radio operator (RTO) with the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry, S2 Intelligence, Larry humped a 20-pound PRC-25 through the jungle near the DMZ, took part in the relief of the siege of Khe Sanh, moved into the A Shau Valley, and l
What They Don't Tell You About Being a Blackwater Contractor (opens the original)
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Morgan Lerette joined the Air National Guard in 1999 for one reason: his grandfather told him the Air Force had the best food. Two years later, September 11th changed everything. Morgan deployed to Oman, Jordan, Kuwait, and Iraq during the ground offensive — then walked away from active duty and into one of the most controversial jobs in modern warfare: private military contractor for Blackwater.In this episode, Morgan takes us inside the world most people only know from headlines — protecting U
What They Don't Tell You About Life on a Nuclear Submarine (opens the original)
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He served on Cold War fast-attack submarines, surfaced through Arctic ice, and spent up to 85 days underwater breathing recycled air — all without his family knowing if he was alive. Retired Navy Commander Henry Rausch joins the show to talk about his time as a submarine officer, the true story behind his bestselling memoir Submerged, and why the submarine force may be America's most important — and most overlooked — line of defense. Henry was the son of a Navy Master Chief, turned down a path t
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