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Air Force Senior Master Sergeant, retired, Bill Nutt was the intelligence analyst who planned and coordinated the rescue mission that picked up "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell in Afghanistan in 2005.  Luttrell and approximately 20 of his fellow soldiers were shot down in a helicopter in the northeast of Afghanistan in 2005, and Luttrell was the only one to survive - largely through the efforts of a local Afghan family.  His story was captured (with some Hollywood edits) in the movie "Lone Survivor" in 2013.

Bill talks about his part in that incredible mission and his career in the Air Force.

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Shield T3 has the most rapid and reliable Covid testing model in the country.  A subsidiary of the University of Illinois, Shield T3 was organized to combat Covid-19 and get students back in school.  Their program was so successful they decided to expand it to K-12 education and to private businesses around the country.  Former CEO and current member of Shield T3, Laura Wand discusses her organization's mission, its impact, and its future in helping everyone get back to work.

From SHIELD T3:

Driven by Innovation and Mission

The University of Illinois System received emergency use authorization (EUA #: EUA202555) on February 24th, 2021, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for covidSHIELD, the innovative saliva-based COVID-19 test that was used on the U of I campuses to hold the virus in check by utilizing widespread testing with rapid results. Under FDA guidelines, the EUA allows the U of I System to broadly expand its covidSHIELD testing beyond its universities in all of the Shield T3 laboratories across the country.

We aim to:

Provide a quality test and testing system to curb the spread of the pandemicOffer a solution that is affordable enough to use at scale and safely reopen for private and public good

Background

We believe saliva to be the best medium to detect the virus. Our test bypasses the RNA-isolation step allowing for both lower costs and more rapid results without sacrificing accuracy. The saliva test from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been approved by the UIUC’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-certified lab director.

Results

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been administering this COVID-19 test on all students, faculty and staff since the spring of 2020, with outstanding results.

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Justin is a disabled combat veteran who served as a Gunners Mate in the US Navy. Called "Pirate Hunter" by many, he is well known for gallantry in action during the 2010 pirate attack on the U.S.S. Ashland. His valiant efforts in defense of that ship helped our government obtain the first judicial conviction for piracy in over 200 years!

In December 2017, Justin began laying the ground work for a new company focused on developing the veteran community, which was suffering from an epidemic of  suicide.  A related mission was coaching non-veterans who were looking for meaning in their lives.  In April 2018, Justin founded "Signs By Veterans," in order to teach veterans to provide high-quality and selfless service for their clients.  Justin believes that generating purpose for veterans is a powerful way to decrease the number of suicides from the current 22 a day. 

Justin is recognized throughout the industry as a leading expert and influencer. He has been featured in Signs of the Times and Sign Builder Magazine . He was nominated for Forbes 30Under30, selected as one of the 2021 Young Sign Makers by Sign Builder Illustrated, achieved top 3 finalist for Digital Output’s "International Sign Application of the Year" in 2017, and is a frequent guest on business and personal development-related podcasts.

You can follow Justin on Facebook & Instagram | @JustinMyersPirateHunter

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Thomas Billingsley was on the second to last C-17 out of Afghanistan in August 2021.  In the weeks leading up to the withdrawal, Thomas was supposed to be in country for up to one year assisting operations at the US embassy and at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.  As the situation deteriorated and the Taliban advanced, Thomas and his team of 150 State Department coworkers and 2,000 Marines had to adapt - and help evacuate tens of thousands of people in a couple weeks. Thomas Billingsley details his experience in the one of the largest airlift evacuations in history.  He can be reached at [email protected].

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Greg gives his take on the previous episode - Holocaust survivor and author Sam Silberberg - and Sam's book, "From Hell to the Promised Land." Greg also discusses the week's major headlines: baseball, politics, Alec Baldwin, and more.

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Sam Silberberg was 10 years old when he was living with his family in Poland in 1939 and the Nazis invaded.  Already enduring widespread anti-semitism, Jews in Poland were rounded up and shipped off to death camps by the thousands.  Wit and grit enabled Sam to evade capture for many months while providing goods through underground markets to his fellow Jews.  Eventually Sam was captured and worked as a slave in the Blechhammer concentration camp - a subcamp of Auschwitz - with his father.  Toward the end of the war, Sam was able to escape and find his mother.  Sam then moved to the newly created nation of Israel, which he also fought to defend, before moving to the United States in 1952.  He remained quiet about his experience in the Holocaust for about 50 years, but then chose to open up and write his book, "From Hell to the Promised Land: a Boy's Daring Escape from a Nazi Concentration Camp," which you can buy on Amazon.  Sam is now 92 and lives with his wife in southern California.  He continues to educate people about the Holocaust, and many of his interviews can be found on YouTube.

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Sam Silberberg was 10 years old when he was living with his family in Poland in 1939 when the Nazis invaded.  Already dealing with widespread anti-semitism, Jews in Poland were rounded up and shipped off to death camps by the thousands.  Wit and grit enabled Sam to evade capture for many months while providing goods through underground markets to his fellow Jews.  Eventually Sam was captured and worked as a slave in the Blechhammer concentration camp - a subcamp of Auschwitz - with his father.  Toward the end of the war, Sam was able to escape and find his mother.  Sam then moved to the newly created nation of Israel, which he also fought to defend, before moving to the United States in 1952.  He remained quiet about his experience in the Holocaust for about 50 years, but then chose to open up and write his book, "From Hell to the Promised Land: a Boy's Daring Escape from a Nazi Concentration Camp," which you can buy on Amazon.  Sam is now 92 and lives with his wife in southern California.  He continues to educate people about the Holocaust, and many of his interviews can be found on YouTube.

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Chris has over 25 years of experience as an Air Force fighter pilot (F-16, F-15) and Thunderbird pilot.  He has deployed eight times in support of Operations Northern/Southern Watch, Allied Force, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, and Odyssey Dawn.  He also participated in the shoot-down of a MiG-29 during the conflict in Kosovo in 1999.  He joins me today to discuss these experiences and how they have shaped his leadership philosophy.   Chris can be reached at LinkedIn under Chris "Dbal" Austin.

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Lisa is recognized worldwide as a turnaround mastermind and innovative businesswoman. For more than 30 years, she has been called to turnaround failing organizations—businesses, teams, nonprofits, political campaigns, and government projects—and solve seemingly intractable problems. Over time, Lisa has learned the key to course-correct when things go South is applying the discipline of process engineering—carefully reevaluating everything your organization does and how it does it—with diplomacy and humanity, taking care of relationships and forging strong partnerships. As a CEO, former US Ambassador, and advisor to Fortune 500 companies, Lisa has orchestrated the successful turnarounds of private and public organizations in all industries.

In Turnaround, Gable shares her simple but powerful method for breathing new life into the most troubled ventures: Visualize the future—don’t fix what’s there; start from scratch. Break down the present—ditch what isn’t working; keep what does. Create a path to your future—map out critical decisions and actions needed. Execute with confidence and diplomacy—speed up by partnering well with others. At a time when dizzying innovation cycles, hyper competition, and a global pandemic have made survival more challenging than ever, Gable’s time-tested and industry-proof method will give you the tools to turn your ship around and a chart a course to success.

Lisa Gable can be reached at Turnaroundbook.com.

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Former Coast Guard officer and Harvard Law student Thomas "Buddy" Bardenwerper tells us about his upcoming book - Mona Passage - which comes out in November.  The Mona Passage is a dangerous area of  ocean between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, through which drug traffickers and migrants attempt to pass in an effort to get to the United States. 

Mona Passage is the story of two neighbors in San Juan, Puerto Rico: Galán Betances, a Cuban emigrant, and Pat McAllister, a young Coast Guard officer. During long evenings spent together talking on their Calle Luna rooftop, a deep friendship develops based on shared traumas and a common desire to heal. When Galán learns that his sister, Gabriela, is going to be committed to a mental health facility in Cuba, he plans her escape to Puerto Rico. Pat, whose Coast Guard cutter patrols the Mona Passage for drug traffickers and migrants, warns Galán that such a journey will be treacherous—perhaps fatal. Aware of the dangers but determined for Gabriela to live a full life, Galán hands over all the money he has to a Dominican smuggler based out of a San Juan nightclub, and Gabriela begins her terrifying journey. Knowing that his cutter may be all that separates Galán and Gabriela—and haunted by the human suffering he has witnessed at sea—Pat must decide. Will he remain true to his oath, as his older brother had done in Iraq? Or will he risk his own future—and perhaps his freedom—for his closest friend? On a moonless night, two armed vessels converge in the Mona Passage, and three lives change forever.

Thomas Bardenwerper is on Facebook, and he can be reached on Instagram and Twitter @tbardenwerper89

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