Voice for Valor

Josh Marlowe was a C-130 loadmaster with the 145th Airlift Wing and one of two men who survived the MAFFS 7 crash in South Dakota. Before he would talk about himself, he asked to tell the stories of the four crewmates he lost.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/josh-marlowe

Tony Miller retired from the Air Force at 38, helped grow his father's commercial door business, and shut it down after the 2008 housing crash. Now he leads an all-volunteer golf foundation for veterans and first responders and has written a book to get people talking again.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/tony-miller

Four herniated discs ended Paul Cummings' Army service in basic training. After years driving tour buses for musicians, he built the Handy Dandy Voter app so elected officials can see how their own constituents want them to vote.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/paul-cummings

Jason Rumbaugh was a combat engineer with the 82nd Engineer Battalion out of Bamberg, Germany, and served in Kosovo, then Iraq. Two weeks short of his 25th birthday he was riding TC in the lead vehicle, looking down at the window and thinking how much it would suck to get hit by an IED. Not even a second later, he was.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/jason-rumbaugh

Manny Harmon was told he might never walk without a cane or walker again. His answer came from the Marine still inside him: who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do?

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/manny-harmon

A three-thousand-square-foot wall in downtown Athens, Tennessee, covered in graffiti. The town treated the owner like he was crazy. Jennifer Shepard called anyway. First answer: over my dead body.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/he-said-over-my-dead-body-she-traded-a-podcast-for-a-wwii-mural

After 26 years in the U.S. Navy—and years spent guiding sailors through their own transitions—Tamara Moore thought she was ready to retire. She wasn’t prepared for the loneliness, anxiety, identity loss, and feeling of becoming “useless” overnight.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/tamara-moore-walter-matthews

Jon Unvaccinated served about five years in the Air Force. When the COVID vaccine mandate came down he refused it and was separated — and he will tell you he is not anti-vaccine. He was going to take it. What stopped him was what was being done to civilians back home.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/he-refused-the-covid-vaccine-then-he-made-unvaccinated-his-legal-name

James Brown enlisted in the Air National Guard at eighteen, straight out of a South Carolina high school he nearly didn't graduate from. Years later, coming off a divorce and drinking hard, he rode a motorcycle into the side of a van and woke up in the middle of the road with people standing over him who thought he was dead. He kept his career. He made Chief. And then he had to take the uniform off.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/james-brown

Marc Chabot describes the seventeen years before he enlisted as "a disaster and a train wreck" — divorce, alcohol, drugs, humiliation. A friend tapped him on the shoulder in high school and gave a Marine recruiter his phone number without asking. Twenty-one years later that recruiter stood at his promotion to sergeant major.

Watch the full video episode and read the transcript: voiceforvalor.com/episodes/marc-chabot