In the fall of 2006, Rory McGovern was a company fire support officer assigned to a combined arms team operating in the area around Abu Ghraib, Iraq. The day after Christmas, he was on a security patrol in support of a local sheikh’s Hajj send-off party when a shot rang out. McGovern had been hit. He shares the story of that encounter with the sniper and subsequent recovery in this episode.
This episode of The Spear features a conversation with Capt. Lindsay Heisler. An aviation officer and Apache pilot, in December 2015 she was part...
Fred Lough began his Army career as an engineer officer before deciding to leave military service to attend medical school and become a surgeon....
For seventeen years, the US military has been at war in Afghanistan. The guests on this episode were there at the very beginning. Jason...