In 2003, Maj. John Spencer was a platoon leader in the 173rd Airborne. In this episode, he talks about the very first mission after his unit jumped in northern Iraq. He also described a complex ambush in which enemy forces targeted his platoon. Listen as he reflects on the experiences and what lessons he took from these experiences about combat, training, and fear.
Rick Jackson enlisted in the Marine Corps in the 1980s, later attending Officer Candidates School and commissioning as an infantry officer. He joins this...
Fred Lough began his Army career as an engineer officer before deciding to leave military service to attend medical school and become a surgeon....
In 1962, while on a year-long break from college, Barry Broman was first shot at in South Vietnam while working as a photographer for...