Into The Breach

Air Force Pararescue (PJ) Aaron Love, talks about the brutal mental and physical 2 year training pipeline—SERE, military freefall, combat dive, the intense 7.5-month Military Pararescue Provider Program to become a nationally registered paramedic and putting it all together to earn the beret.

Aaron Love, a retired Air Force Pararescue Operator with over 20 years of service, opens up his time in the PJ pipeline, earning his beret, and his first high-stakes rescue — hoisting a dying sailor off a supertanker in the North Sea. In this episode he breaks down the 91% attrition rate, the brutal multi-year training pipeline, working alongside elite international operators, and how he’s now training the next generation through Ones Ready and the Operator Training Summit.

Morgan Lerette rips the Global War on Terrorism Memorial foundations financials as their CEO tripled his salary as they lost nearly $500,000.

GWOT veterans Morgan Lerette and Ethan Nagel discuss the widely condemned new Global War on Terrorism Memorial design that many are calling an abomination and a complete failure to honor those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Morgan Laurette breaks down the flawed design, the GWOT Memorial Foundation’s massive financial losses, the insider-heavy design committee and why veterans are demanding Congress intervene before this disgrace is built on the National Mall.

Marine infantryman Jared Anderson went from being woken by enemy tracer rounds overhead during the Iraq invasion to being called back into combat on the brutal streets of Ramadi.

Marine Combat Veteran Gabe Henderson raced into a vicious Ramadi ambush to rescue a pinned-down patrol, then fought a day-and-a-half in the April Battle of Ramadi.

Marine veteran Gabe Henderson fights through a heart murmur that nearly ends his career before storming into Ramadi’s brutal street fighting as a SAW gunner in 2004. He charges through savage firefights and dark battlefield humor across three combat deployments before transforming into a professional race driver in this raw story of unbreakable Marine resilience.

Marine Raider Joshua Shores delivers one of the rawest accounts of MARSOC combat in Afghanistan — from standing on a Russian minefield, danger-close B-1 bomber strikes, and the unbreakable brotherhood that carried them through Helmand’s Wild West.

The boys are back and we discuss Soviet Cinema, War Hammer 40k and yes, the wars are still going on.

MARSOC Raider, Purple Heart recipient and author Joshua Shores delivers one of the most brutal, unflinching combat accounts of the Iraq War you will ever hear — from the blood-soaked, bullet-riddled streets of Ramadi 2005 with 1st Battalion 5th Marines to becoming one of the very first MARSOC Marine Raiders in Afghanistan.