Oscar Mike Radio – Travis Partington
Marine Veteran Travis Partington created Oscar Mike Radio as an avenue for Veterans to share their stories as part of their healing.
Navy Week
Navy Week is an outreach program conducted by the Navy Office of Community Outreach. Since 2005, the program has scheduled events in as many as 15 communities annualy with a focus on areas that do not have a significant Navy presence. In this episode we talk with four sailors participating in the year’s activities. To see if there is a Navy week coming to your community or one nearby, visit the NAVCO website. Lt. Mike Miller is a public affairs officer with NAVCO. He shares the goal of "deploying to" communities that aren’t “Navy towns” to make them more aware [...]
Navy Week – Various Guests
"Navy Week" is an outreach program conducted by the Navy. They schedule events in communities that don't traditionally have a strong Navy presence.Four sailors participating in the Tucson Navy Week activities join us.
“Sheepdogs” – Greg Drobny
Army Ranger Greg Drobny believes the "Sheepdog" analogy is overly simplistic and flawed. He shares his thoughts.
Space Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins
Space Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins has spent more than 872 hours in space and logged 6,751 hours in the cockpits of 30 different types of aircraft. In 1995 she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle and then in 1999, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission.
Buchenwald Medic Tim Kiniry
Buchenwald concentration camp was the worst sight Tim Kiniry has ever seen. That is saying a lot considering he spent World War II as part of the 45th Evacuation Hospital, witnessing the horrors of war up close and personal. Tim says he normally fainted at the sight of blood so working in a hospital would not have been his first choice, but “That is what I was ordered to do so I tried to do the best job I could.”The 45th landed on Omaha Beach on DDAY plus 10. They treated over 7,000 wounded during the Battle of the Bulge.