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Army Ranger Greg Drobny believes the "Sheepdog" analogy is overly simplistic and flawed. He shares his thoughts.

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 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 [...]

Steven Myers is a two-time Air Force Veteran and a self-described “serial entrepreneur”. He has founded no fewer than four companies and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. He became the first American to fly an aircraft into the Kamchatka Peninsula since Charles Lindbergh. That adventure and the joint venture set up through that mission is subject of his best-selling book “Crosswinds: Adventure and Entrepreneurship in the Russian Far East”.

Brad Taylor served 21 years in the US Army, 8 of those with the elite Delta Force. He is the author of sixteen best selling thriller novels.

Scott Faith of the Havok Journal joins us for an update from my go to website for all things military and first responder.

Combat Control Foundation founding members Mike Lamonica and Mike West join us to discuss some of our military’s most highly trained warriors. The motto of Combat Controllers is “First There” and is derived from World War II when Pathfinders were inserted in advance of other troops in order to provide weather information and visual guidance for inbound aircraft.

Darrell Ahrens recounts some of his adventures as a fighter pilot - some of them quite humrous. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and 13 Air Medals while flying combat in Vietnam.

Wade Hubbard only spent five years in the US Air Force. Duing that time he was awarded FIVE Distinguished Flying Cross Medals, 30 Air Medals and a Purple Heart flying as a "back seater" in an F-4 Phantom.