Greg Drobny is a former Airborne Infantryman, PSYOP Team Chief, political consultant, and professional military blogger who currently serves as Student Outreach and Recruitment Manager for Code Platoon. He holds a BA in history, a Masters of Science in organizational psychology, and is currently pursuing an MA in history. An Iraq War veteran, Greg is married with four children who keep him more than slightly busy and is passionate about helping veterans find their paths in life and develop the skills needed to pursue their goals

From enlisting in the US Army to serving in Iraq to helping his veterans through Code Platoon, these... are Greg Drobny's battlefields.

Show Notes:

101st: 101st Airborne Division

AO: Area of Operations

Code Platoon

PSYOP: Psychological Operations (military career field)

Q Course: Special Forces Qualification Course

Ranger Up

RIP: Ranger Indoctrination Program

RTB: Ranger Training Brigade

RUMINT: Rumors Intelligence, i.e. gossip

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Episode guest: Greg Drobny

Host: LTC (Ret.) Charles Faint

Edited by: Michael Neal

Music: "King Around Here" by Alex Grohl (courtesy of Pixabay)

Sponsored by: The Epoch Times, in conjunction with The Havok Journal

Contact email: [email protected]

Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Matthew Sacra served in the US Army in both the enlisted ranks and as an officer in the Armor branch. Wounded twice in Iraq, he later authored the book Armor of God: An Armor Officer's Faith, Growth, and Protection in Combat, in part as self-therapy for his TBI and PTSD. After a lengthy and distinguished military career, Matt's final assignment in the Army was as an instructor at the US Military Academy at West Point. Now retired, he lives in Pennsylvania with his family.

From a family tradition of national service, to earning the Purple Heart in Iraq, to teaching at West Point, and then on to retirement in Pennsylvania, these... are Matt Sacra's battlefields.

Show Notes:

155 rounds: 155mm artillery ammunition

DIME: diplomatic, informational, military, economic; Elements of National Power

DFAC: dining facility

NSA: National Security Agency

Profiles in Havok

PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder

S3/XO: operations officer (S3) / executive officer (XO)

Second Mission Foundation

Sosh Department: Department of Social Sciences at West Point

TBI: traumatic brain injury

Veterans Repertory Theater

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Episode guest: LTC (Ret.) Matt Sacra

Host: LTC (Ret.) Charles Faint

Edited by: Michael Neal

Music: "King Around Here" by Alex Grohl (courtesy of Pixabay)

Sponsored by: The Epoch Times, in conjunction with The Havok Journal

Contact information: [email protected]

Mason Rodrigue (pronounced "road rig") was born in southern Louisiana and grew up playing football and seeking self-validation as a man. This desire, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, led him to enlist in the US Marine Corps and eventually his service in Syria as a machine gunner. Mason left the Marine Corps as a lance corporal and began to put his thoughts into the printed word. He is the author of Rock Eater, a collection of his poetry and thoughts about philosophy and military life that describes "what happens when a man gets turned into a weapon and aimed at nothing." Like many veterans, Mason finds writing about his experiences to be therapeutic, noting that in the shared veteran experience, "every story is different, but every story is the same."

From southern Louisiana to college to the Marine Corps, and then Syria and back again, these... are Mason Rodrigue's Battlefields.

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Show Notes:

0331: Marine Corps enlisted career code for machine gunner

Dead Reckoning Collective

LAW: Light Anti-Tank Weapon

M2: .50 caliber heavy machine gun

Ma Deuce: M2 heavy machine gun

Mark19: M19 heavy automatic grenade launcher

NJP: Non-Judicial Punishment, administrative military justice

Patrol Base Abbate

Profiles in Havok

Veterans Repertory Theater

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Episode guest: Mason Rodrigue

Host: LTC (Ret.) Charles Faint

Edited by: Michael Neal

Music: "King Around Here" by Alex Grohl (courtesy of Pixabay)

Sponsored by: The Epoch Times, in conjunction with The Havok Journal

Contact information: [email protected]

In the inaugural episode of the Battlefields podcast, our host, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Charles Faint interviews Ayman Kafel. Ayman embodies the "front lines and the home front" theme of Battlefields: born in Liberia, Ayman and his family fled the civil war there and then lived in Lebanon before immigrating to the US . Ayman later went on to serve in the US Army in Iraq before being medically discharged. After leaving military service, Ayman made the move into law enforcement and then into entrepreneurship. As a military veteran entrepreneur, or "vetrepreneur," Ayman runs Project Sapient and Hybrid Wolf Blue Line Strategies. He is the author of the pending book The Resolute Path, due to publish in 2023 through the Second Mission Foundation.

Liberia. Lebanon. Iraq. The streets of Massachusetts. And now, the business world. These... are Ayman Kafel's "Battlefields."

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Show Notes:

Deuce-and-a-half: a military 2.5-ton transport truck

IBA: Individual Body Armor

MOS: Military Occupational Specialty

OSUT: One-Site Unit Training (military basic and advanced entry-level training)

PSD: Personal Security Detail

Second Mission Foundation

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Episode guest: Ayman Kafel

Host: LTC (Ret.) Charles Faint

Edited by: Michael Neal

Music: "King Around Here" by Alex Grohl (courtesy of Pixabay)

Sponsored by: The Epoch Times, in conjunction with The Havok Journal

Contact information: [email protected]