VA BENEFITS EXPERTS ON DECK

This is our monthly program on the VA and your benefits.

Join our guests:

Deanne Bonner Simpson, Legal Help for VeteransBrig. Gen. Carol Ann Fausone (ret), Legal Help for VeteransMichael G. Smith, Jr., Director of Washtenaw County (MI) Dept. of Veteran AffairsBrian Hayes,  Public Affairs Officer, VA Ann Arbor

 

Disability ClaimsRetroactive CompensationPensionHousing / MortgageEducationInsurance

Darrol Brown, an Air Force veteran and Nevada resident, discusses how National Veterans Business Development Council (NVBDC.org) helps veteran-owned businesses.  Darrol talks about networking and contract opportunities.  He worked in veteran employment programs for the State of Nevada and the U.S. Department of Labor.  Darrol gives an example of how third-party certification has helped businesses get contracts with host Jim Fausone.

This week’s guests during our one hour radio broadcast with host Dale Throneberry:

US Navy Vice Adm. (ret.) John Bird, USAA Senior Vice President, Military AffairsUS Army Lt. Gen. (ret.) Mike Linnington, CEO of Wounded Warrior Project Veterans Charity - Non Profit Organization for Veterans | WWP (woundedwarriorproject.org)Cindy Ross, Author of “Walking Toward Peace” https://riverhousepa.wordpress.com/

Michigan Heroes Museum is unique in that it is the only museum devoted to the wartime experiences of men and women from the state of Michigan. The museum's mission is to Honor, Respect, and Remember Michigan's citizens' personal contributions to our nation's military and space program.  With over 140 displays and a collection of over 850 individual exhibits, the museum also hosts stories devoted to Michigan's Governors, 16 Astronauts and 31 individual Medal of Honor Recipients, and includes the nation's largest Medal of Honor collection on display. 

Michigan Heroes Museum is a member of AMMO.  Veterans Radio spotlights Association of Michigan Military Organizations on a regular basis. 

The executive director John Ryder talks to host Jim Fausone about the Museum.

Noted author and USAF Veteran Dale Brown's novel Arctic Storm Rising is about USAF intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn who is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska’s Arctic frontier. 

As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Flynn and his security team are ordered to parachute into the area in a desperate bid to reach the crash sites ahead of the Russians. It’s now obvious that the Pentagon and CIA are withholding vital information, but Flynn and his men have no choice but to make the dangerous jump.  Soon they’re caught in a deadly game of hide-and-seek with Spetsnaz commandos operating covertly on American soil. 

Dale talks about the writing process, stories ripped from the headlines, and technology advances with host Jim Fausone.

This week’s guests during our one hour radio broadcast with host Dale Throneberry:

John D. Long, Director of Education, National D-Day MemorialMyra Miller, Footsteps Researchers and Battlefield ToursDarrol Brown,  VP of Operations, National Veterans Business Development Council (NVBDC)

Randall Liberty served for 24 years in the Army, Army National Guard, and Reserves, ultimately retiring as a Command Sgt Major. His overseas assignments include Korea, Iraq, and Italy. Randall experienced some of the all-too-common transitional issues. 

However, he has a civilian career that spans law enforcement, 16 years as a sheriff, four years as a prison warden, and now Commissioner of the State of Maine Department of Corrections. Randall has an interesting background that he brings to his current job.  He has been an innovator about prison programs that provide the men purpose and self esteem. 

He talks to host Jim Fausone about life and the need to give those incarcerated a second chance and redemption.  He has a particular interest in helping fellow veterans instituting a program that includes training of service dogs in the prison.

SPECIAL MEMORIAL DAY ENCORE PRESENTATION

Each year more than 4,000,000 people come to visit. More than 300,000 reside here. Over 500 more are added each week. Near-mythological stories of valor, commitment, sacrifice and patriotism surround you as you walk the grounds. It is the location of the Tombs of the Unknown Soldiers. The official name is Arlington National Cemetery, but known simply as Arlington.

 

Join host Gary Lillie and guest Michael Patterson, Webmaster and founder of the website dedicated to the Arlington National Cemetery www.arlingtoncemetery.net, as we honor those who have died for our country and for our freedom. Together we will learn more about them and the special place reserved for some of America’s finest.

OUR ARLINGTON  COLLECTION

Over the years of radio broadcasting and podcasting we have collected a good number of programs related to the Arlington National Cemetery. Here’s a quick link to that collection.

More Arlington National Cemetery Programs

K2 in Uzbekistan was a Soviet Air Force base with a long history of environmental contamination.  The DOD leased 40 acres of the base from October 2001-2005 and an estimated 15,000 military members were stationed at Karshi-Khanabad (K2) on the way into Afghanistan.  The base was immediately recognized as having contamination and DOD was slow to recognize the problems and limit exposure.  Now 20 years later, public pressure has Congress looking at the issue and veterans health being impacted by the exposure to golden oils in the soils, black goo, chemical weapons, ordnance explosions, yellow cake, and depleted uranium from Soviet use and American burn pits.

Mike Lechlitner, Army veteran and DOD contractor, speaks with host Jim Fausone about his experiences at K2 and efforts to get Congress to recognize and provide presumptive disease recognition to veterans.

2021 MEMORIAL DAY POPPY WALL TRIBUTES

Despite less than half of Americans (43%) understanding the true meaning of Memorial Day, and many confusing it with Veterans Day, most Americans (83%) do believe it’s important to do something to commemorate Memorial Day.

This Memorial Day weekend, USAA is bringing back its virtual Poppy Wall of Honor to give all Americans a unique opportunity to pause and remember the more than 645,000 military servicemembers who’ve given their lives for our country since World War I.

https://www.poppyinmemory.com/

THUNDER OVER MICHIGAN IS BACK LIVE. TICKETS ON SALE NOW

August 7th and 8th, 2021

More Information: www.YankeeAirMuseum.org

REBECCA GRANT, MILITARY ANALYST, IRIS RESEARCH

Dr. Rebecca Grant is a national security analyst based in Washington, DC.  

Since founding IRIS Independent Research, she has specialized in research for government and aerospace industry clients ranging from analysis of military campaigns to projects on major technology acquisition such as the B-21 bomber.