American Warrior Radio

The US Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth is the only Level III maximum security prison in the Dept. Of War. Sergeant Major Daniel Dodds shares more about the institution's history and their reform and rehabilitation progams.

Operation Sparrow was either genius or suicidal..or both. Jason Bell tells us the amazing on little known story of three American Commandos who may have saved hundreds of thousands of lives by convincing the Nazis that the Allied invasion would come through Hungary.

When Army officer Patrick Naughton began researching his father's service in Vietnam, he identified several parrallels between that war and the war the current generations fought. His book "Born From War: A Solider's Quest to Understand Vietnam, Iraq and the Generational Impact of Conflict" is a fascinating read.

Ed McKenzie was a combat search and rescue crewmember in Vietnam. Folowing the war he became a Franciscan Priest. He uses lessons learned from Saint Francis of Assisi's journey from soldier to saint to help other Veterans address their Post Traumatic Stress.

Kevin and Lauren Wallace moved out of their condo, bought a used FedX van with 300,000 miles on the odometer. Their mission was to record 100 stories of Purple Heart recipients and Gold Star families.

280 days, 27,000 miles and 48 states later, they recorded 317.

California Fish and Wildlife game warden John Nores helped build the nation's first dedicated wildlife officer special operations units to reclaim America's wildlands from drug cartels. He explains the war taking place right in our own backyards.

"What if your ugliest scar could become your most beautiful gift?" Retired Green Beret Scott Mann now works helping Veterans and others tell their stories.

Air National Guard Veteran Bonnie Carroll lost his husband, Brig. General Tom Carroll, in a aircraft crash. It was then she learned how inadequate the government's Survivor assistance programs were on their own. Turning her tragedy into something good, Bonnie founded the Tragedy Assistance Program for Surivors. TAPS has helped thousands of military families in the US and even overseas.

When his 13 year old son told him there were some man "In fancy suits with ribbons on their chests", Mark Murphy came up from the basement to see an Army Next of Kin notification team. Several years later he would lose that 13 year old, a Navy Veteran to suicide.

Mark's family would become two time members of the club no one wants to join - Gold Star Families.

Multiple New York Times bestselling author and noted Pacific War historian James M. Scott joins us to discuss his last book in a trilogy about the war in the Pacific.