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Two U.S. officers were brutally murdered with axes in the Korean DMZ. The U.S. response? Not missiles—but chainsaws, commandos, and fighter jets. This is the true story of Operation Paul Bunyan—how the might of the U.S. military was unleashed to cut down a single tree… and avoid World War III.In this episode of An Ounce, we explore how a seemingly small act of violence nearly sparked global conflict, the cultural concept of “saving face,” and one of the most bizarre military operations in Cold War history.

On this week's Soldier for Life Podcast, we are excited to talk about the Army's upcoming 250th birthday celebration and the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War. Listen as we sit down with Captain Jonathan Bratten, the command historian for the Maine Army National Guard and the National Guard Bureau's Revolutionary War 250 liaison officer to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, to chat about these two important events and why they - along with knowing your Army history AND telling your #SoldierForLifeStory and the Army's story - are important to ALL of us even 250 years later. And be sure to check out these important links from the podcast!

On this episode, Cody and Steve discuss the Creature from the Exeter Lagoon, Nicholas Gilman, as well as review some fun statistics from the first 50 subjects and answer a few listener questions.Podcast to recommend: Kingdom (Kingdöm: Swedish Rulers – A Flatpack History of Sweden Podcast)Sources· Wright, Jr., Robert K., and Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987.· See pinned post on Bluesky for list of general sources Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode, Steve and Cody discuss another Revolutionary immigrant from the Emerald Isle, Thomas Fitzsimons.Podcast to recommend: Anglo-Saxon England (Anglo-Saxon England (evergreenpodcasts.com))Sources· Flanders, Henry. “Thomas Fitzsimmons.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 2, no. 3 (1878): 306–14. . Retrieved 10 Sept 2024.· United States Congress. “Fitzsimons, Thomas.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. . Retrieved 10 Sept 2024.· Wright, Jr., Robert K., and Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987.· See pinned tweet for general sources Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  For transcriptions and more detailed shownotes, please go to: https://swordschool.shop/blogs/podcast/episode-195-pirates-with-dr-jamie-goodall To support the show, come join the Patrons at  https://www.patreon.com/theswordguy Dr. Jamie L.H. Goodall is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars, National Geographic's Pirates: Shipwrecks, Conquests, and their Lasting Legacy, Pirates and Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay, and The Daring Exploits of Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean. She has a BA in Archeology, an MA in Public History and Museum Studies, both from Appalachian State University, and a PhD in history from Ohio State. In our conversation we discuss why pirates are seen as so glamorous – the clothes, the swashbuckling, the adventure, the accent. But you won't be surprised to hear that the life of a pirate was somewhat different to this. Jamie explains about pirate culture, and the democracies on board ship, the arrangements around compensation, and the famous “Pirate Code.” We hear about the successful pirate, Black Sam Bellamy, AKA the Prince of Pirates, who had a reputation for being a kinder pirate, and how that worked for him. As you'll expect from The Sword Guy Podcast, we have a chat about weapons and fighting. What weapons did pirates use? Were they as bloodthirsty as we've been led to believe? We also find out Jamie's hopes for a biopic of Black Sam Bellamy, and her upcoming book about the taverns, inns and public houses of Virginia.

Podcast to recommend: American RevolutionOn this episode, Cody and Steve discuss the few and far between details of the Constitutional Convention's man of few words, William Few.Podcast to recommend: American Revolution (http://blog.amrevpodcast.com/)SourcesUnited States Congress. “Few, William.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. . Retrieved 27 Aug 2024.Wright, Jr., Robert K., and Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. Washington, DC: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1987.See pinned tweet for general sources Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Talk Like A Pirate Day and that makes it the perfect time to invite pirate historians Jamie Goodall and Rebecca Simon to talk about pirate mythology, superstitions at sea, and our favorite books and movies about swashbucklers.About our guests:Jamie Goodall is  a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C.  She also teaches part-time at Southern New Hampshire University in their College of Online & Continuing Education. She is the author of Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020), National Geographic's Pirates: Shipwrecks, Conquests, and their Lasting Legacy (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2021), Pirates and Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2022), and The Daring Exploits of Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2023).Rebecca Simon is a historian of early modern piracy, Colonial America, the Atlantic World, and maritime history. She earned her PhD from King's College London in 2017. My dissertation, entitled: “The Crimes of Piracy and its Punishment: The Performance of Maritime Supremacy in the British Atlantic World, 1670 – 1830,” examines British maritime and legal supremacy in its early American colonies in regards to maritime piracy. She uses the public executions of pirates in London and the Americas as my narrative to see how the colonists reacted to increased legal restrictions by British authorities, which ultimately led to new ideas of autonomy.

In this episode, Dr. Jamie Goodall discusses her new book, The Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean, which describes the political, cultural, legal, and economic relationships between pirates and the coast of colonial New England. Dr. Goodall teaches American history at Southern New Hampshire University and is a historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C.

SFC Nicholas Rice from U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training provides an overview on innovative initiatives to integrate Soldier Readiness for Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) with Large Scale Combat Operations and Multi-Domain Operations.To connect with Full Battle Rattle, you can email us at fullbattlerattle@gmail.com.

America's National Guard was once considered a ragtag gaggle of pretend soldiers. Beginning in the 1980s the National Guard gradually transformed into today's highly flexible operational force that answers our nation's call for overseas combat deployments as well as domestic emergencies that run the gamut from lifesaving disaster responses to staffing Covid clinics. Brigadier General Paul "Greg" Smith describes his personal journey during these years, from a callow cadet to a committed commander leading military forces in response to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Smith gives a humorous, gritty, and sometimes touching glimpse into the inner workings of this unique military organization while offering portraits of the men and women who serve as the minutemen of our age. His reflections on service, duty, and the complexities of command will enlighten anyone who seeks to better understand the challenges of leadership. “In the post post-Vietnam restructuring of the service, the Chief of Staff, General Creighton Abrams, insured the U.S. Army would never deploy forces to a combat area without the National Guard again. Brigadier General Greg Smith provides an inside look at how National Guard soldiers have laid to rest the stereotype image of the ‘Weekend Warrior' and replaced it with that of a capable professional who has become an equal member of the operational force.”—Major Glenn F. Williams, USA (Ret)., Ph.D., former Senior Historian, U.S. Army Center of Military History, author of Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era and Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

This week Jamie Goodall joins #HATM regulars John Wyatt Greenlee and Leah Lagrone to get to the bottom of a serious question: to which generation does The Goonies belong. We are up to no good in this episode and even through in some pirate history to boot. HATM never says die.About our guests:Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee is  a medievalist and a cartographic historian. His academic research is primarily driven by questions of how people perceive and reproduce their spaces:  how movement through the world — both experiential and imagined — becomes codified in visual and written maps. You can find him on twitter at @greenleejw Dr. Leah LaGrone is an assistant professor of history and public history director. She graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, with a PhD in history focused on borderlands, labor, and gender studies in early 20th century. Her research examines state legislation and the discourse on minimum wages for women, specifically the connections of sex work with low wages. Her current book project, “A Woman's Worth: How Race and Respectability Politics Influenced Minimum Wage Policies,” demonstrates that the politics around race and the minimum wage for women drove conversations among labor, politicians, and progressive reformers about the future of white supremacy in Texas. Dr. Jamie L.H. Goodall is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. All views expressed on my website are my own and are not reflective of my employer, the U.S. Army, or the Department of Defense. She also teaches part-time at Southern New Hampshire University in their College of Online & Continuing Education. She is the author of Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2020), National Geographic's Pirates: Shipwrecks, Conquests, and their Lasting Legacy (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2021), Pirates and Privateers from Long Island Sound to Delaware Bay (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2022), and The Daring Exploits of Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2023).

Join us as we welcome Glenn Williams, PhD as he examines the political and economic causes of the American Revolution beginning at the end of the Seven Years War / French and Indian War through the resistance movements. He will dispel or clarify some of the popular beliefs about the grievances that eventually led the thirteen colonies to break with the Mother Country. Glenn Williams is a retired U.S. Army officer that until recently also enjoyed a "second career" as a military historian. He retired as a senior Historian after 18 years at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and 3 1/2 years as the historian of the American Battlefield Protection Program of the U.S. National Park Service.

Today's guest is a historian of the Romanian military experience Grant Thomas Harward. Grant is a historian with the US Army Center of Military History in Washington, DC. Before going to Ft. McNair, Grant was a historian with the US Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage in San Antonio. He received his BA in History from Brigham Young University, then took an MA at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He completed his PhD at Texas A&M University, under Friend-of-the-Pod and brisket coneseur Roger Reese. Grant is the author of Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust (Cornell), which was awarded the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. He is also the co-author, with Johnny Shumate, of the forthcoming book Romania 1944: The Turning of Arms against Nazi Germany (Osprey). Grant's articles have been published in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Studies in Ethnicity & Nationalism, Army History, and Air & Space Power History. In 2017, he was the Norman Raab Foundation Fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He also held a Fulbright US Student Award to Romania in 2016-2017 and an Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellowship in 2013. Join us for a delightful and uplifting chat with Grant Harward. We'll discuss BYU quarterbacks, New Order, serving an LDS mission in Romania, the Battlefield documentary series, and the best Balkan food in DC, among many other topics. Lots packed in this one! Shoutout to Ambar Restaurant in Arlington, VA! Rec.: 12/28/2023

On this episode, Steve and Cody decide whether political obstinacy is a good thing or a bad thing as they take on Daniel Carroll, with a little bit of D. C. in the mix.Podcast to recommend: Wonders of the World (https://www.wonderspodcast.com/)SourcesGeiger, Mary Virginia. Daniel Carroll: A Framer of the Constitution. Lewis, Tom. Washington: A History of Our National City. New York City, NY: Basic, 2005.United States Congress. “Daniel Carroll.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. . Retrieved 20 Oct 2023.Wright Jr., Robert K. and MacGregor Jr., Morris J. Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. Washington, DC: U. S. Army Center of Military History, 1987.See pinned tweet for general sources Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. became the first African-American general in the US Army on 25th October, 1940 - despite facing opposition from those who saw his appointment as political opportunism, whilst Roosevelt wooed the ‘negro vote'. Despite facing racial discrimination throughout his career, Davis had a deep connection to the military, serving in various roles and campaigns, including the Spanish American War, and had been mentored by Lieutenant Charles Young, the only other black officer at the time.  In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain why Davis's date of birth is a question of debate; explain how Davis's son went on to have a military career that echoed the discrimination and successes of his father's; and trace the history of black soldiers' involvement in the US Army since the country's foundation…  Further Reading: • ‘Benjamin O. Davis Sr. (1877-1970)' (Blackpast, 2017): https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/davis-sr-benjamin-o-1877-1970-2/ • ‘Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr' (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2021):  https://history.army.mil/html/topics/afam/davis.html • ‘Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. - First African American to command a Brigade' (Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9FuPcYctBo Love the show? Join

On this episode, Steve and Cody delve into one of the architects behind slavery's hold on the Constitution, Pierce Butler.SourcesGannon, Kevin M. “Pierce Butler.” South Carolina Encyclopedia. 17 May 2016. . Retrieved 3 Oct 2023.United States Congress. “Pierce Butler.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. . Retrieved 3 Oct 2023.Wright Jr., Robert K. and MacGregor Jr., Morris J. Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. Washington, DC: U. S. Army Center of Military History, 1987.See pinned tweet for general sources Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1717, the Council of Trade and Plantations received "agreeable news" from New England. "Bellamy with his ship and Company" had perished on the shoals of Cape Cod. Who was this Bellamy and why did his demise please the government? Born Samuel Bellamy circa 1689, he was a pirate who operated off the coast of New England and throughout the Caribbean. Later known as "Black Sam," or the "Prince of Pirates," Bellamy became one of the wealthiest pirates in the Atlantic world before his untimely death. For the next two centuries, Bellamy faded into obscurity until, in 1984, he became newsworthy again with the discovery of his wrecked pirate ship. Historian Jamie L.H. Goodall unveils the tragic life of Bellamy and the complex relationship between piracy and the colonial New England coast. Jamie L.H. Goodall, PhD, is staff historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. She has a PhD in history from The Ohio State University, with specializations in the Atlantic world and early American and military histories. Goodall is an expert on Golden Age piracy and has published with The History Press/Arcadia Publishing, the Washington Post, and National Geographic. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Kyle, and her Boxers, Thomas Jefferson and John Tyler. Purchase: HERE

On this episode, Steve and Cody attempt to sweep away the dust of history that surrounds Jacob Broom of Delaware, and discuss Article Two of the Constitution.Podcast to recommend: Grimm Reading (https://grimmreading.podbean.com/)SourcesWright Jr., Robert K. and MacGregor Jr., Morris J. Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. Washington, DC: U. S. Army Center of Military History, 1987.“The Founding Fathers: Delaware.” National Archives. 16 Feb 2018. . Retrieved 19 Sept 2023.See pinned tweet for general sources Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1717, the Council of Trade and Plantations received "agreeable news" from New England. "Bellamy with his ship and Company" had perished on the shoals of Cape Cod. Who was this Bellamy and why did his demise please the government? Born Samuel Bellamy circa 1689, he was a pirate who operated off the coast of New England and throughout the Caribbean. Later known as "Black Sam," or the "Prince of Pirates," Bellamy became one of the wealthiest pirates in the Atlantic world before his untimely death. For the next two centuries, Bellamy faded into obscurity until, in 1984, he became newsworthy again with the discovery of his wrecked pirate ship. Historian Jamie L.H. Goodall unveils the tragic life of Bellamy and the complex relationship between piracy and the colonial New England coast. Jamie L.H. Goodall, PhD, is staff historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. She has a PhD in history from The Ohio State University, with specializations in the Atlantic world and early American and military histories. Goodall is an expert on Golden Age piracy and has published with The History Press/Arcadia Publishing, the Washington Post, and National Geographic. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Kyle, and her Boxers, Thomas Jefferson and John Tyler. Purchase: HERE

To close out Season 3 (and our 75th overall episode!), our guest today is retired US Army colonel Charles R. Bowery, Jr. Charles, the Executive Director of the US Army Center of Military History and Chief of Military History at Ft. McNair in Washington, DC. He oversees all historical matters in the Department of the Army and the twenty-nine Army museums, including the National Museum of the United States Army. He also advises the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Army and other Army Senior Leaders on historical background relevant to events and projected actions affecting the Army. This included advising the recent Naming Commission. Charles earned a BA in History at the College of William and Mary and his MA in History at North Carolina State University. He is currently finishing his PhD in History at George Washington University, with a dissertation titled “Black Officers in Army Green: African American Officers in the All-Volunteer Army, 1973-2020.” Charles is the author of The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, 1864-1865 (Praeger) and Lee and Grant: Profiles in Leadership From the Battlefields of Virginia (American Management Association). He is also the co-editor with Ethan S. Rafuse of The Army War College Guide to the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign (University Press of Kansas). Charles has conducted staff rides at American Revolution, Civil War, and American World War I & II battlefields. He has been awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the Legion of Merit, the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award, and the General George C. Marshall Award. Charles is also a retired colonel in the United States Army, where he taught history at West Point but spent much of his career as a Master Army Aviator (helicopters!) and Parachutist. His deployments included Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He has earned numerous commendations, including three Bronze Star medals. This is a very interesting and informative episode. Join us as we chat with Charles about growing up in rural Virginia near the Seven Days battlefields, making career choices, flying helicopters, the Tom Glavine, INXS, and the myriad challenges facing Army historians today. 75 episodes! Thanks, everyone, for the support and for listening! Rec.: 07/28/2023

Erik's Social Media Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/Erikhistorian Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erikthehistorian LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikvillard/⁠ In this episode, we discuss the following topics. *How Erik became a military historian   *Roleplaying games as training for military historians   *Which military historians influenced Erik most   *Becoming a digital military historian   *The creation of Vietnamwarhistoryorg   *What Erik's ideal training for future military historians would look like   *Making military history useful to operational commands   *The US Army's History and Heritage efforts   *Those Center for Military History (CMH) projects Erik finds most rewarding *The challenges of writing official military history   *The monograph review process at CMH   *How studying military history provides literacy in evaluating sources   *The claim that military history is under siege in US universities   *Some of the giants of Vietnam War historiography in the English-speaking world   *Historical works that Erik recommends for US small unit leaders   *Small unit military history   *Unit historians (“5X” in the US Army)   *General William Westmoreland's strategy in Vietnam   *Friction between Army and Marine Corps commands   *The controversy of Westmoreland's single air manager concept   *1st Cavalry Division and 101st Airborne Division units in the Battle for Hue   *The possibility of North Vietnam capitulating   *Whether or not the US lost any battles during the war   *Why the Army lost the lessons of Vietnam   *Requests for historical materials in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom   *The poor state of record keeping in US commands during the Global War on Terror   *Some of Erik's solutions to that problem Links Combat Operations: Staying the Course, October 1967 to September 1968 by Erik Villard The 1968 Tet Offensive Battles of Quang Tri City and Hue City by Erik Villard U.S. Army Center of Military History --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/damien-oconnell/support

In this week's edition of Fort Riley the Podcast, we celebrate with leaders of the U.S. Army Center of Military History the reopening of the U.S. Cavalry Museum at Fort Riley. Community friends and supporters celebrated with a ribbon cutting June 13, 2023.

CLAMO hosts CSM Scott Beeson, U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training. CSM Beeson reflects on his career, shares leadership lessons from the Battle of Wanat, and discusses implementing Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F).

During the Vietnam War, a joint Army and Navy unit known as the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) was established to operate in the maritime environment of the Mekong Delta. In the episode we talk about the Mobile Riverine Force with Erik Villard, the digital military historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and a historian of the Vietnam War. Villard is the author of “Combat Operations: Staying the Course, October 1967 to September 1968.”

Dr. Grant T. Harward is a native of southern California. He completed his BA in history at Brigham Young University in 2009, his MSc in the Second World War in Europe at the University of Edinburgh in 2010, and his PhD in history at Texas A&M University in 2018. He is a former Auschwitz Jewish Center fellow, a former Fulbright scholar to Romania, and a former Mandel Center fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was a historian for the U.S. Army Medical Department Center of History and Heritage at Fort Sam Houston (“Home of the Combat Medic”) in San Antonio from 2018 to 2021. He now works as a historian for the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Dr. Harward has written numerous articles about the history of U.S. Army medicine and the Romanian Army during World War II. Cornell University Press recently published his book, Romania's Holy War: Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust (2021). The views and information shared by Dr. Harward are his alone and do not represent the official position of the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Defense, or U.S. Government.

Inspired by Bradley Sommer's tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (produced by Erica Bennett, an M.A. student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama) talks with an early career scholar now looking for work in academia, a senior scholar with a view from the inside, and those who either earned their doctorate and established a career outside the university or those who decided early on that graduate work was not their preferred career path. In the first episode of the series, Erica and Jacob Barrett (himself just starting his Ph.D. at UNC Chapel Hill) discuss the challenges of starting a PhD program in the humanities at this particular point in time, gaining some perspective from Bradley Sommer, a recent Ph.D. graduate in History. About the guest: Bradley J. Sommer earned his Ph.D. in American History from Carnegie Mellon University and is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. He is also an online adjunct professor at Miami University in Ohio. Currently, he is working on a book about Toledo, OH, in the latter half of the 20th century, entitled Tomorrow Never Came: The Making of a Postindustrial City. About the Study Religion Podcast: this series was first posted in the summer of 2022 on the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies Podcast, which contains a variety of other episodes, all on the wider relevance of scholarship on religion—learn more, or subscribe, here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

Inspired by Bradley Sommer's tweet this past summer about the ongoing challenges of the Humanities job market in the U.S., this four part podcast (produced by Erica Bennett, an M.A. student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama) talks with an early career scholar now looking for work in academia, a senior scholar with a view from the inside, and those who either earned their doctorate and established a career outside the university or those who decided early on that graduate work was not their preferred career path. In the first episode of the series, Erica and Jacob Barrett (himself just starting his Ph.D. at UNC Chapel Hill) discuss the challenges of starting a PhD program in the humanities at this particular point in time, gaining some perspective from Bradley Sommer, a recent Ph.D. graduate in History. About the guest: Bradley J. Sommer earned his Ph.D. in American History from Carnegie Mellon University and is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. He is also an online adjunct professor at Miami University in Ohio. Currently, he is working on a book about Toledo, OH, in the latter half of the 20th century, entitled Tomorrow Never Came: The Making of a Postindustrial City. About the Study Religion Podcast: this series was first posted in the summer of 2022 on the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies Podcast, which contains a variety of other episodes, all on the wider relevance of scholarship on religion—learn more, or subscribe, here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephen Lofgren, historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, discusses in detail the first account of 9/11 that he wrote which describes how so many were suddenly thrust into a nightmare in which they had to struggle together just to survive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yournextmission/message

Illicit commerce was key to the survival of the mid-Atlantic colonies from the Golden Age of Piracy to the battles of the American Revolution. Out of this exciting time came beloved villains like Captain William Kidd and Black Sam Bellamy, as well as inspiring locals like Captain Shelley and James Forten. From the shores of New York to the oceans of the East Indies, from Delaware Bay to the islands of the West Indies, author Jamie L.H. Goodall illuminates the height of piratical depredations in the mid-Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Jamie L.H. Goodall, PhD, is staff historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. She has a PhD in history from The Ohio State University, with specializations in Atlantic world, early American and military histories. Goodall is an expert on Golden Age piracy and has published with The History Press/Arcadia Publishing, the Washington Post and National Geographic. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband, Kyle, and her Boxers, Thomas Jefferson and John Tyler.

After decades of our government denying healthcare to veterans they exposed to poisonous toxins, the PACT Act - which will eventually provide this hard-fought-for care - is now law. In this episode, learn exactly who qualifies for these new benefits and when, discover the shocking but little-known events that led to their poisonings, and find out what exactly happened during those 6 days when Senate Republicans delayed the passage of the PACT Act. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via PayPal Support Congressional Dish via Patreon (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North, Number 4576, Crestview, FL 32536. Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! View the shownotes on our website at https://congressionaldish.com/cd257-pact-act-health-care-for-poisoned-veterans Background Sources Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD249: A Few Good Laws CD205: Nuclear Waste Storage CD195: Yemen CD161: Veterans Choice Program CD124: The Costs of For-Profit War CD107: New Laws & Veterans' Health Care What the PACT Does and Doesn't Do “BREAKING NEWS! Huge Step Forward for Veterans: PACT Act 2022 Adds New Presumptive Conditions for Burn Pit, Agent Orange, and Radiation Exposure.” Aug 10, 2022. VA Claims Insider. Abraham Mahshie. Aug 10, 2022. “Biden Signs PACT Act to Expand VA Coverage for Toxic Exposure, but Some Are Left Out.” Air Force Magazine. Leo Shane III. Aug 4, 2022. “Now that PACT Act has passed, how soon will veterans see their benefits?” Military Times. “The PACT Act and your VA benefits.” U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 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Biden Drone Bombing “'Cutting-edge technology used to eliminate Zawahiri.'” Aug 7, 2022. The Express Tribune. Jon Stewart People Staff. August 11, 2022. “Jon Stewart Shares His Emotional Reaction to Signing of Veterans Health Bill: 'I'm a Mess'” People. Republican F*ckery Ryan Cooper. Aug 3, 2022. “Republicans Just Exposed Their Greatest Weakness.” The American Prospect. Jordain Carney and Anthony Adragna. August 1, 2022. “Senate GOP backtracks after veterans bill firestorm.” Politico. “Roll Call 455 | H. J. Res. 114: To Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq.” Oct 10, 2022. Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Foreign Wars No One Talks About Ellen Knickmeyer. Jun, 16 2022. “GAO: US Failed to Track if Arms Used Against Yemen Civilians.” Military.com. Joseph R. Biden. June 08, 2022. “Letter to the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate regarding the War Powers Report.” The White House. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim. Oct 16, 2017. “The Deaths of Four Elite U.S. Soldiers in Niger Show Why Trump Must Wake Up on Terrorism in Africa.” Newsweek. Overseas Contingency Operations Emily M. Morgenstern. Updated August 13, 2021. “Foreign Affairs Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) Funding: Background and Current Status” [IF10143 ]. Congressional Research Service. Todd Harrison. Jan 11, 2017. “The Enduring Dilemma of Overseas Contingency Operations Funding.” Center for Strategic and International Studies The Law S. 3373: Honoring our PACT Act Jen's Highlighted PDF of S. 3373 - Final Version Timeline of Votes and Changes June 16, 2022 Senate Roll Call Vote July 12, 2022. “Comparative Print: Bill to Bill Differences Comparing the base document BILLS-117hr3967eas.xml with BILLS-117S3373ES-RCP117-56.” U.S. House of Representatives. July 13, 2022 House Roll Call Vote July 27, 2022 Senate Roll Call Vote August 1, 2022. “Amendments Submitted and Proposed.” Congressional Record -- Senate. Audio Sources President Biden signs the PACT Act, expanding healthcare for veterans exposed to toxins August 10, 2022 PBS NewsHour on YouTube "Justice has been delivered": Biden says top al-Qaeda leader killed in drone strike August 1, 2022 Global News on YouTube “Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Claims | Veteran Owned Law Firm.” The Carlson Law Firm on YouTube Senator Toomey on State of the Union with Jake Tapper July 31, 2022 CNN Clips 7:00 Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Here's what you need to keep in mind, Jake. First of all, this is the oldest trick in Washington. People take a sympathetic group of Americans — it could be children with an illness, it could be victims of crime, it could be veterans who have been exposed to toxic chemicals — craft a bill to address their problems, and then sneak in something completely unrelated that they know could never pass on its own and dare Republicans to do anything about it because they know they'll unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudo-celebrity to make up false accusations to try to get us to just swallow what shouldn't be there. That's what's happening here, Jake. 10:40 Jake Tapper: So one of the questions that I think people have about what you're claiming is a budgetary gimmick is, the VA budgets will always remain subject to congressional oversight, they can't just spend this money any way they want. And from how I read this legislation, it says that this money has to be spent on health care for veterans who suffered exposure from toxic burned pits. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): This is why they do this sort of thing, Jake, because it gets very deep in the weeds and very confusing for people very quickly. It's not really about veteran spending. It's about what category of government bookkeeping, they put the veterans spending in. My change, the honest people acknowledge it will have no effect on the amount of money or the circumstances under which the money for veterans is being spent. But what I want to do is treat it, for government accounting purposes, the way we've always treated it for government accounting purposes. Because if we change it to the way that the Democrats want, it creates room in future budgets for $400 billion of totally unrelated, extraneous spending on other matters. Senator Toomey on Face the Nation with John Dickerson July 31, 2022 CBS News Clips 4:10 John Dickerson: 123 Republicans in the House voted for this, 34 Senate Republicans voted for it. Same bill. This week, the bill didn't change but the Republican votes did. Why? Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Now, the Republican votes didn't change on the substance of the bill. Republicans have said we want an amendment to change a provision that has nothing to do with veterans health care. The Republicans support this. The Democrats added a provision that has nothing to do with veterans health care, and it's designed to change government accounting rules so that they can have a $400 billion spending spree. 6:25 Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): Honest Democrats evaluating this will tell you: if my amendment passes, not a dime change in spending on veterans programs. What changes is how the government accounts for it. John Dickerson: I understand, but the accounting change, as you know, is a result — the reason they put it in that other bucket is that it doesn't subject it to the normal triage of budgeting. And the argument is that the values at stake here are more important than leaving it to the normal cut and thrust of budgeting. Jon's Response To Ted Cruz's PACT Act Excuses July 29, 2022 The Problem with Jon Stewart on Youtube Clips 00:20 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): What the dispute is about is the Democrats played a budgetary trick, which is they took $400 billion in discretionary spending and they shifted it to a mandatory one. Jon Stewart: What Ted Cruz is describing is inaccurate, not true, bulls ** t. This is no trick. Everything in the government is either mandatory or discretionary spending depending on which bucket they feel like putting it in. The whole place is basically a f * ing shell game. And he's pretending that this is some new thing that the Democrats pulled out, stuck into the bill, and snuck it past one Ted Cruz. Now I'm not a big-city Harvard educated lawyer, but I can read. It's always been mandatory spending so that the government can't just cut off their funding at any point. No trick, no gimmick, [it's] been there the whole f**king time. 1:50 Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): What's the Republicans made clear is, if we leave that spending as discretionary — don't play the budgetary trick — the bill will pass with 80 or 90 votes. Jon Stewart: I don't know how many other ways to say this, but there was no budgetary trick and it was always mandatory. And when they voted in the Senate on June 16, they actually got 84 votes. And you know who voted for that? Ted f*cking Cruz and every other one of those Republicans that switched their votes. There was no reason for them to switch the votes. The bill that passed the Senate 84 to 14 on June 16 has not had one word added to it by Democrats, or spending fairies, or anybody else. It's the same f*cking bill. ‘I Call Bullshit!' Jon on the PACT Act Being Blocked in the Senate July 28, 2022 The Problem with John Stewart on YouTube Clips 3:20 Jon Stewart: June 16, they passed the PACT Act 84 to 14. You don't even see those scores in the Senate anymore. They passed it. Every one of these individuals that has been fighting for years, standing on the shoulders of Vietnam veterans who have been fighting for years, standing on the shoulders of Persian Gulf War veterans fighting for years, Desert Storm veterans, to just get the health care and benefits that they earn from their service. And I don't care if they were fighting for our freedom. I don't care if they were fighting for the flag. I don't care if they were fighting because they wanted to get out of a drug treatment center, or it was jail or the army. I don't give a shit. They lived up to their oath. And yesterday, they spit on it in abject cruelty. These people thought they could finally breathe. You think their struggles end because the PACT Act passes? All it means is they don't have to decide between their cancer drugs and their house. Their struggle continues. From the crowd: This bill does a lot more than just give us health care. Jon Stewart: It gives them health care, gives them benefits, lets them live. From the crowd: Keeps veterans from going homeless keeps veterans from become an addict, keeps veterans from committing suicide. Jon Stewart: Senator Toomey is not going to hear that because he won't sit down with this man. Because he is a fucking coward. You hear me? A coward. 5:15 Jon Stewart: Pat Toomey stood up there — Patriot Pat Toomey, excuse me, I'm sorry. I want to give him his propers, I want to make sure that I give him his propers. Patriot Pat Toomey stood on the floor and said “this is a slush fund, they're gonna use $400 billion to spend on whatever they want.” That's nonsense. I call bullshit. This isn't a slush fund. You know, what's a slush fund? The OSO, the Overseas Contingency Operations Fund. $60 billion, $70 billion every year on top of $500 billion, $600 billion, $700 billion of a defense budget. That's a slush fund, unaccountable. No guardrails? Did Pat Toomey stand up and say, this is irresponsible. The guard rails? No, not one of them. Did they vote for it year after year after year? You don't support the troops. You support the war machine. 7:10 Jon Stewart: And now they say, “Well, this will get done. Maybe after we get back from our summer recess, maybe during the lame duck…” because they're on Senate time. Do you understand? You live around here. Senate time is ridiculous. These motherfuckers live to 200 — they're tortoises. They live forever and they never lose their jobs and they never lose their benefits and they never lose all those things. Well, [sick veterans are] not on Senate time. They're on human time. Cancer time. 8:20 Jon Stewart: I honestly don't even know what to say anymore. But we need your help, because we're not leaving. These people cannot go away. I don't know if you know this, you know, obviously, I'm not a military expert. I didn't serve in the military, but from what I understand, you're not allowed to just leave your post when the mission isn't completed. Apparently you take an oath, you swear an oath, and you can't leave, that these folks can leave because they're on Senate time. Go ahead, go home, spend time with your families, because these people can't do it anymore. So they can't leave until this gets done. Senator Toomey PACT Act Amendment Floor Speech July 26, 2022 Senate Session Representative Mark Takano PACT Act Floor Speech July 13, 2022 House Session 3:38:20 **Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA): The way this country has dealt with toxic exposure has been piecemeal and inadequate. President Biden recognizes this, too. Shortly after he was sworn in, I met with the President about our shared priorities for veterans. Upon learning of my goal to pass comprehensive legislation to help toxic-exposed veterans, the President leaned over to me and talked about his son, Beau, who served near burn pits in Iraq and Kosovo. It might be hard for most Americans to imagine what a burn pit looks like because they are illegal in the United States. Picture walking next to and breathing fumes from a burning pit the size of a football field. This pit contained everything from household trash, plastics, and human waste to jet fuel and discarded equipment burning day and night. Beau Biden lived near these burn pits and breathed the fumes that emanated from them. President Biden believes that con- stant exposure to these burn pits, and the toxic fumes they emitted, led to Beau's cancer and early death. It was during that meeting when I knew I had a partner in President Biden. Atomic Homefront 2017 HBO Documentaries “This Concrete Dome Holds A Leaking Toxic Timebomb.” November 27, 2017 Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Foreign Correspondent Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)

Our Flag Means Death is a hilarious anachronistic pirate comedy on HBO Max. But the backstory of its main characters is surprisingly real. I talk with pirate historian Jeremy Moss, Purdue professor Manushag Powell and Jamie Goodall, staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, about how the historical figure of Blackbeard used theatricality to become a media phenomenon, and why it was an easy transition for people to believe he was a fantasy character versed in the dark arts. And we look at whether the endearing portrayal of the bumbling “gentleman pirate” Stede Bonnet in Our Flag Means Death is leaving out a crucial aspect of his backstory. To learn more, check out these books: British Pirates in Print and Performance by Manushag N. Powell The Life and Tryals of the Gentleman Pirate, Major Stede Bonnet by Jeremy R. Moss Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars by Jamie L.H. Goodall This episode is sponsored by Mint Mobile, Squarespace and Riverside. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you're interested in advertising on Imaginary Worlds, you can contact them here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us for a conversation with Brig. Gen. John Kline, Commander of the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, as we discuss the ACFT. We ask him some of the top questions that Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston has received from the field regarding the implementation of the ACFT and what it means for Soldiers. U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training Facebook Learn more about the ACFT

In honor of Women's History Month, Devin and Lauren highlight a Pomeroy marker in Tioga County and tell the story of Corporal Margaret Hastings, a member of the Women's Army Corps who survived 47 days in a New Guinea jungle during World War II. Marker of Focus: World War II, Owego, Tioga County Guests: Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost in Shangri-La; Emma Sedore, Tioga County historian A New York Minute In History is a production of the New York State Museum, WAMC, and Archivist Media, with support from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. This episode was produced by Jesse King. Our theme is "Begrudge" by Darby. Further Reading: Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff Women For Victory Vol 2: The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) (American Servicewomen in World War II: History & Uniform Series, 2) by Katy Endruschat Goebel The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific by James Campbell Teaching Resources: Women in the Army: The Creation of the Women's Auxiliary Corps U.S. Army Center of Military History: “The Women's Army Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service” By Judith A. Bellafaire PBS Learning Media: Corporal Margaret Hastings Follow Along Devin: Welcome to A New York Minute in History. I'm Devin Lander, the New York state historian. Lauren: And I'm Lauren Roberts, the historian for Saratoga County. In honor of Women's History Month, we have a fascinating account for you that includes tragedy, survival, ingenuity and an amazing plan of rescue. We begin the story in the village of Owego, which is located in Tioga County, in the Southern Tier region of New York. The William G. Pomeroy historic marker is located in front of 106 McMaster Street, and the text reads: “World War II. Home of Shangri-La WAC, Corporal Margaret J. Hastings, who survived 47 days in New Guinea jungle after May 13, 1945 plane crash. William G. Pomeroy Foundation, 2016.” So there's quite a lot to unpack from those few lines of text. But let's start at the beginning. The sign is marking the former home of Corporal Margaret Hastings, so who was she? We spoke with Tioga County Historian Emma Sedore, who told us a little bit more about what Margaret's life was like growing up in Owego. Emma: One day at the museum,

Kara Dixon Vuic is the Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America at Texas Christian University. She received her BA in History and English at Marshall University and her MA and PhD from Indiana University. Before making the move to TCU, she held faculty positions at Bridgewater College in VA and Highpoint University in NC. She is the author most recently of The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines (Harvard University Press, 2019). Her first book Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War (Johns Hopkins, 2010) won the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award, American Association for the History of Nursing (2010), the American Journal of Nursing Books of the Year Award in History and Public Policy (2010), and was a Finalist for the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award. She also edited The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military (2017) and was part of the editorial team for Managing Sex in the U.S. Military Gender, Identity, and Behavior, which is set to appear with the University of Nebraska Press in May 2022. Kara has also published numerous essays and articles, and she is the co-editor for the University of Nebraska Press' Studies in War, Society, and the Military series. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Army Heritage and Education Center, the U.S. Army Center of Military History, the American Historical Association, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Foundation, among many others. Kara has written for the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and the Dallas Morning News, and she has also served as a consultant for television and radio programs. She's a Trustee of the Society for Military History, and she has a list of invited talks and conference presentations a mile long, so we're glad she agreed to add this interview to the list of prestigious things she's done recently. Join us for a great chat with Kara - Mumford and Sons, financial frugality, and yes, the BBQ question will make an appearance. Follow Kara on Twitter @KaraDixonVuic. Thundering Herd! Rec. 02/11/2022

On February 14, 1945, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean and surviving a run-in with a Nazi U-Boat, the women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion disembarked the Île-de-France in Glasgow, Scotland.  The task awaiting the only all-Black, all-female battalion overseas during World War II was daunting. There were airplane hangars filled with a backlog of millions of pieces of mail sitting in Birmingham, England, addressed from friends and family to service members stationed across Europe.  Despite segregation and poor working and living conditions, the Six Triple Eight made quick work of the postal backlog, doing their part to lift morale among the American military personnel stationed in Europe. To learn more about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, I'm joined now by writer Kaia Alderson, author of Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II. Our theme song is Frogs Legs Rag, composed by James Scott and performed by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons. The episode image is “Inspection of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion,” Courtesy of the U.S. Army. Additional Sources: “6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (Women's Army Corps),” Prepared by Kathleen Fargey, AAMH-FPO, U.S. Army, February 14, 2014. “The Women's Army Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service,” by Judith A. Bellafaire, U.S. Army Center for Military History Publication 72-15. “The 6888 Postal Directory Battalion- Heroes of World War II [video],” Marking History Channel, July 21, 2021. “The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army,” by Christina Brown Fisher, The New York Times, June 17, 2020. “The SixTripleEight: No Mail, Low Morale,” National World War II Museum, February 10, 2021. “Seventy-Five Years Ago, the Military's Only All-Black Female Band Battled the War Department and Won,” by Carrie Hagen, Smithsonian Magazine, March 28, 2019. Related Episodes of Unsung History: “The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II,” with Dr Katherine Sharp Landdeck “Alaska Territorial Guard in World War II,” with Dr. Holly Guise “Women in the U.S. Military during the Cold War,” with Dr. Tanya Roth Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today in 1945, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, began heading to England for deployment. These 855 servicemembers, all Black women, took on a mission that may not have been glamorous but was considered absolutely essential to the war effort. Plus: today in 1947, TIME Magazine reported on a trip by a BBC crew that didn't go quite so well. The Black Female Battalion That Stood Up to a White Male Army (New York Times) 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion (U.S. Army Center of Military History) Miscellany, Feb. 3, 1947 (TIME) Our show is powered by our listener-backers on Patreon! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support

Gen. Paul E. Funk, II, commanding general, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, hosts Lt. Gen. Theodore Martin, commanding general, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center, and Brig. Gen. John Kline, commanding general, U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training for a discussion on how CAC and CIMT are supporting TRADOC's mission support of Waypoint 2028.

What does it mean!? Join us for a special bonus episode and a chat with MG Lonnie Hibbard, commander, U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, about ACFT 3.0. MG Hibbard talks to us about the changes to the test, how we got here, and what to expect in the future.

Stephen Lofgren, historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History, discusses in detail the first account of 9/11 that he wrote which describes how so many were suddenly thrust into a nightmare in which they had to struggle together just to survive.

Get ready for this deep dive by the U.S. Army Center of Military History's Joseph Seymour into the famed Rainbow Division's (42d Infantry Division) heroic actions at Croix Rouge Farm in WWI. Visit our Official Website: www.nationalguard.mil/leaderdevelopment Visit our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/leadersrecon Visit our Instagram page at: www.instagram.com/arng_leader_development

On the night of August 4th, 1964, the crews of two American destroyers reported a gunfight at sea off the coast of North Vietnam. The report, two days after an initial exchange of fire between an American ship and North Vietnamese patrol boats, set the United States on a tragic course from which it could not divert: a commitment to a conventional war in Vietnam.     The Gulf of Tonkin incident is among the most consequential events in post-World War II American history. However, it remains mired in controversy, hung up in confusing sonar hits and blurred memories. On Episode 49 of the 18th Airborne Corps podcast, host Joe Buccino tells the full, final story of the Gulf of Tonkin, of what really happened that night. He also describes how the events of August 4th, 1964 led so quickly to a war resolution.   We spent 19 months researching this podcast; it is the final word on the Gulf of Tonkin incident. This episode features three of the Nation's top historians: Erik Villard, Edwin Moise, and John Prados, as well as Chad James, a US Navy Radarman 3rd Class at sea that night.   Dr. Erik Villard is the Digital Military Historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Fort McNair, DC. He's also an Army historian of the Vietnam War and one of the world's leading experts on the 1968 Tet Offensive.   Dr. Edwin E. Moise is a professor of history at Clemson University. Like Dr. Villard, he specializes in the Vietnam War. He is the author of the definitive account of the Tonkin Gulf Crisis: “Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War,” originally published in 1996, with a revised edition in 2019.   Dr. John Prados heads the National Archive's Intelligence Documentation Project and its Vietnam Project. He is among our Nation's highest profile historians of the Vietnam War and American intelligence. Dr. Prados has authored many books on the CIA, national security, and the Vietnam War, most notably “Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War,” published in 2009.   At an hour and a half, this is a longer episode, but it's worth the time. It's a fascinating story, one that is critical to our understanding of the Vietnam War.   But this is not simply an effort in uncovering history: the Gulf of Tonkin has so much wisdom to offer us today. We reveal that wisdom in the final section in which we describe the lessons from August 1964 and how they apply to the current national security structure.   This is a story of strategic miscalculation, of political pressure leading to catastrophic military decisions, of misunderstood intentions. It's also, at heart, the story of the fog of war and its cost.      We timed this release for the 57th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. It's never been more relevant.   The 18th Airborne Corps podcast is the official podcast of the US Army's XVIII Airborne Corps. Recorded on Fort Bragg, North Carolina with a new episode released every Tuesday, the podcast tells one complete story about an important national security subject every week.

In this episode, we are chatting with Dr. Jamie Goodall. Dr. Goodall is currently a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and has just released a book about pirates. Her new book is titled, Pirates of the Chesapeake: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars. We grapeshot her with questions about pirates and she enlightens us. So sharpen your sabers and load the muskets, and be prepared for this interview to be pirated across the internet. Literature Recommendations Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 by Mark G. Hanna National Geographic Pirates & Shipwrecks by Jamie L. Goodall Guest Contact Instagram and Twitter: @l_historienne Website: jamiegoodall.com Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Links Website ALiRP Page Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

In this episode, we are chatting with Dr. Jamie Goodall. Dr. Goodall is currently a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and has just released a book about pirates. Her new book is titled, Pirates of the Chesapeake: From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars. We grapeshot her with questions about pirates and she enlightens us. So sharpen your sabers and load the muskets, and be prepared for this interview to be pirated across the internet. Literature Recommendations Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever by Rebecca Simon Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 by Mark G. Hanna National Geographic Pirates & Shipwrecks by Jamie L. Goodall Guest Contact Instagram and Twitter: @l_historienne Website: jamiegoodall.com Contact Email: alifeinruinspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @alifeinruinspodcast Facebook: @alifeinruinspodcast Twitter: @alifeinruinspod Website: www.alifeinruins.com Links Website ALiRP Page Store Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular

Karen Costello, associate at Booz Allen Hamilton focusing on the firm's human performance capability; Andy Riise, retired Army lieutenant colonel and mental fitness coach for the Cincinnati Reds; and Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, commanding general of U.S. Army Center for Initial Training discuss Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F), specifically building mental readiness.

Karen Costello, associate for Booz Allen Hamilton focusing on the firm's human performance capability; Andy Riise, retired Army lieutenant colonel, mental skills coach for the Cincinnati Reds; and Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, commanding general of the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military History discuss Holistic Health and Fitness or H2f, specifically the importance of mental readiness.

Karen Costello, associate at Booz Allen Hamilton focusing on the firm's human performance capability; Andy Riise, retired Army lieutenant colonel and mental fitness coach for the Cincinnati Reds; and Maj. Gen. Lonnie Hibbard, commanding general of the U.S. Army Center for Initial Military History, discuss Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F), specifically the role mental readiness plays in Soldiers being ready and lethal.

In honor of Fort Hunter Liggett’s 80 th anniversary we repost c orrespondent Tom Wilmer's conversation with Brian Neumann, Ph.D., a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History at Fort McNair in Washington D.C. Newmann talks about lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, who was second-in-command of the U.S. Army’s World War 1 American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Liggett was a visionary tactician who transformed field tactics through combined-arms that remain employed by the U.S. Army today. Neumann ’s conversation was recorded at Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County November 8, 2018 following his presentation about the Meuse-Argonne Offensive—the last battle of World War 1; and the subsequent Armistice signed on November 11, 1918. Lt. General Hunter Liggett served in the regular Army prior to WWI with duties that included deployment to the Spanish American War and the Western Frontier. Underwriting support for Journeys of Discovery provided by Nashville's Big Back Yard

Guest - Christopher Adams  Chris is a US Army veteran who served 13 years on active duty as a communications specialist before being medically discharged in 2009. During his time on active duty, Chris deployed twice to Iraq. His first deployment was to Anbar Province in eastern Iraq from 2004-2005 and his second was to Baghdad during The Surge from 2006-2007. Email: christophernadams@ymail.com What You'll Get From Today's Show Chris tells us a little about his early life growing up and the circumstances that led him to joining the Army. Chris recalls some of his most vivid memories of going through basic training as a slightly older recruit and assignment to his Army career field as a communications specialist. Assigned to a mobile response unit in Washington D.C., you'll hear Chris' experience on the scene at the Pentagon in the days following the 9/11 attacks. Chris shares a little of what life was like for a soldier stationed in South Korea in the early 2000s with 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment (1/9IN), 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (2/2BCT). In what was probably a first, 2/2BCT, already forward deployed, was alerted and ordered to deploy from South Korea to Iraq. Chris recalls that period of shock and surprise of getting told the news. Chris relates some of his experiences with 1/9IN in Iraq's volatile Anbar Province during his unit's 2004-2005 combat deployment.  Fresh from his deployment to Iraq, Chris relates his journey straight to a new home in the United States at Fort Carson, Colorado. 1/9IN transforms from a heavy combined arms battalion with Abrams Tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles to a light reconnaissance squadron, now designated 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment (3/61CAV), equipped with only HMMWV (Humvee) trucks and heavy machine guns. Chris describes his experiences during the train up period with 3/61CAV in Colorado and then back to Iraq for what would eventually become a 15-month long deployment to eastern Baghdad in 2006 during The Surge. Chris shares some of his experiences from his second Iraq deployment, explaining how it was different from his previous deployment a year earlier.  Chris reflects back on his Army experiences, some of the strong friendships made, and his sometimes difficult transition back to civilian life after a medical discharge.    Resources Related to the Topics Discussed in Today's Episode 9/11 Inside the Pentagon. A 2016 PBS documentary that tells the story of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon including interviews with survivors and responders.   The U.S. Marines in Iraq, 2004-2005: Into the Fray.  An official publication about the history of the U.S. Marines in Al Anbar Province during 2004-2005 from the Marine Corps University, History Division.     The U.S. Army Campaigns in Iraq: The Surge 2007-2008.  An official publication about the history of the Iraq Surge campaign from the Army Center of Military History available to the public for free.    Ghost Riders of Baghdad by Daniel Sjursen. A book written by another member of 3/61CAV about his experiences during the same 2006-2007 deployment Chris describes in his interview.     If You Want to Support The Podcast Help others find the podcast by writing a positive review on Apple Podcasts! Camp Iron Mountain. 

In March 1942, Japan seized control of the lower region of Burma by taking the city of Rangoon. Rangoon, now known as Yangon, was Burma's administrative and commercial capital. The city was a crucial communication and industrial center in Burma and had the only port capable of handling troopships. Perhaps most importantly, strategically, the Burma Road began in Rangoon and allowed for a steady stream of military aid to be transported from Burma to Nationalist China. This supply route was essential for both Chiang Kai Shek's armies as well as allied forces in the region. As a result, the fall of Rangoon to the Japanese had significant consequences. References 1. Bernstein, Marc D. “The 17th Indian Division in Burma: Disaster on the Sittang.” Warfare History Network, 14 Nov. 2018, https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wwii/the-17th-indian-division-in-burma-disaster-on-the-sittang/. 2. “Burma, 1942.” U.S. Army Center of Military History, 3 Oct. 2003, 3. https://history.army.mil/brochures/burma42/burma42.htm. 4. Hickey, Michael. “The Burma Campaign 1941 - 1945.” BBC, 17 Feb. 2011, https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/burma_campaign_01.shtml. 5. McLynn, Frank. The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pacific-atrocities-education/support

Today's guest on the premiere episode of The Indispensables is my old friend, 4-star General Dennis Reimer, who spent four years as Chief of Staff of the United States Army before retiring in 1999. How does somebody get to be Chief of Staff of the US Army? And what does that kind of indispensable person look like?   Mentioned in this episode: ·        Peter Drucker: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Important-Questions-About-Organization/dp/0470227567 (The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization) ·        The https://www.west-point.org/academy/malo-wa/inspirations/cadetprayer.html (Cadet Prayer) ·        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creighton_Abrams (General Creighton W. Abrams) ·        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell (General Colin Powell) ·        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Center_for_Army_Lessons_Learned (U.S. Army Center for Army Lessons Learned)   ---   Follow The Indispensables on Twitter: @goto_podcast   You can purchase your copy of The Art of Being Indispensable at Work from: ·        https://www.amazon.com/Art-Being-Indispensable-Work-Overcommitment/dp/1633698491/ (Amazon) ·        https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-art-of-being-indispensable-at-work-bruce-tulgan/1135022362?ean=9781633698499 (Barnes & Noble) ·        https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781633698499 (Indiebound)   For bulk orders, contact us at: mail@rainmakerthinking.com Follow Bruce on social media: ·        https://twitter.com/BruceTulgan (Twitter) ·        https://www.linkedin.com/in/brucetulganrmt/ (LinkedIn) ·        https://www.facebook.com/bruce.tulganRMT/ (Facebook)   Learn more about RainmakerThinking at our website: https://rainmakerthinking.com/ (rainmakerthinking.com)

On March 13th, 2020, Finland commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the end of the Winter War. Why is the legacy of the Winter War so important to modern-day Finland? What were at the time Americans' perspectives on the War between Finland and the Soviet Union? Listen to learn more, and remember to check out further reading materials linked below. In late 2019, the Embassy of Finland hosted a seminar and panel discussion on the Winter War, where we were able to talk to both Finnish and American experts on the topic. The first part of this episode focuses on Finnish perspectives on the war, and the second part explores American points of view on the Winter War. Interviewees: Professor Kimmo Rentola, University of Helsinki Colonel Petteri Seppälä, Defense, Military, Naval and Air Attaché of Finland for the United States and Canada Professor Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University David W. Hogan Jr, Director of Histories, U.S. Army Center of Military History Host: Satu Järveläinen, Communications Coordinator at the Embassy of Finland in Washington DC Sources and further reading: - Centennial Story of Finland Part 4: Finland Fights Bravely for Her Independence: https://finlandabroad.fi/web/usa/current-affairs/-/asset_publisher/h5w4iTUJhNne/content/centennial-story-of-finland-part-4-finland-fights-bravely-for-her-independence-1937-1947/384951 - Ministry of Defence on Winter War: https://www.defmin.fi/winterwar/ - Women's Lotta Svärd Organization: https://www.lottasaatio.fi/eng/foundation/ - World's most famous sniper? Mr. Simo Häyhä: https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/worlds-deadliest-sniper-simo-hayha-finnish-white-death-winter-war/ - Yle News on Finland's Civil War in 1918: https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/civil_war_still_divides_finland_after_100_years_poll_suggests/10025538 - Eljas Erkko's full speech in English and transcribed in Finnish: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2010/10/06/ulkoministerin-talvisotapuhe

Click to Subscribe to All Ben's Fitness & Get A Free Surprise Gift from Ben. Click here for the full written transcript of this podcast episode   This October 28, 2009 free audio episode is jam-packed with new content, and includes the following topics: powerful motivation techniques for exercise and sports, nutrition news from the Ironman Medical Conference, and massive diet and exercise Q&A! Remember, if you have any trouble listening, downloading, or transferring to your mp3 player, just e-mail ben@bengreenfieldfitness.com.And please don't forget to leave the podcast a ranking in iTunes - it only takes 2 minutes of your time and helps grow our healthy community! Just click here to go to the BenGreenfieldFitness iTunes page and leave feedback. Upcoming episodes include expert interviews on the "Real Truth About Swine Flu", "Hormone Fluctuations in Male & Female Athletes", and "What To Do At The Gym This Winter".  Finally, remember all the time put into producing this podcast for you, and consider donating to our showor your supporting the show by grabbing any of the BenGreenfieldFitness active singlets, hoodies and hat available in the BenGreenfieldFitness clothing store. Featured Topic: We've had many of you listeners ask for an episode on motivation and sports psychology. So we got a sports psychologist on the show! With a background in collegiate sports, strength and conditioning (CSCS), and a doctorate in sports psychology, Dr. Bernie Holliday now teaches mental toughness to warriors at the Army Center for Enhanced Performance, and in our interview, he discusses: -How to create for yourself what he describes as a "goosebump goal"... -Why lack of motivation can take place during competition or exercise... -What comes first - mind over muscle or muscle over mind... -How the world's best motivate themselves to exercise, workout, or rise to a new level... -Dr. Holliday's top tips and tricks for self-motivation and pushing yourself through the toughest events... -How different personality types respond to different types of motivation... -And much, much more! In addition to his advice during this interview, Dr. Bernie Holliday has two book recommendations to add to your motivational sports psychology reading list:Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect andNot About the Bike. ----------------------------------------------------------- Listener Q&A: Listener Sarah Asks: "Hi Ben, I was wondering what you think about the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray.  I have a hard time believing that there is no big amount calories in it but can't find much online that tells me anymore details about it.  Do you have anymore insight about the good or bad of it?" Listener Chuck asks: "Here is a question for you.  I love steamed vegetables like broccoli and spinach, etc.  I usually have a large serving along with my dinner each night.  Is it ok to have a really large portion of vegetables, or should I stick to an appropriate portion size like everything else?  I figured since they are low calorie and healthy its alright, but I don't want to over-eat.  Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it." Listener Charles asks: "Hey Ben. I have a couple questions for you this week I was hoping you could answer.  The first parallels the one I asked last week about how much steamed vegetables one can eat.  I steamed a butternut squash yesterday and had that as a side along with some brocolli and chicken for dinner.  Should I treat foods like butternut squash or acorn squash as carbohydrate side dishes (same as a sweet potato or brown rice) or would they count as a vegetable?  Would it have made more sense to balance that meal by having the chicken, butternut squash, and some brown rice? Second, I have read a couple articles lately on "cheat meals/ days" and the importance of them.  The principle makes sense-not completely depriving yourself so that you will stay mentally healthy as well as be more likely not to binge and to stay on your program.  Some of the articles also talked about the effects these cheat meals or days actually had on the body.  The theory was that by eating a cheat meal, like a large burger and fries with a shake, the calories would shock the body and spark the metabolism, making it work differently than the consistent foods it is used to receiving.  Some went as far to say that the muscles would store the fat as energy and would burn it in the next workout.  I don't know about that last part, but the rest of the theory seems plausible.  What's the truth? Lastly, in the last e-mail you sent out on "How to get fat" you criticized Ensure drinks pretty hard.  I clearly understand why, but on the other hand, would you advise everyone not to drink them or similar products?  When I was in-patient for my eating disorder a couple years ago, we were given Ensure Plus as supplement to help put on weight in a more nutritious manner.  I was advised to keep drinking them once I got out until I reached and maintained my goal weight. Training as hard as I do, I still drink 1-2 Ensure Plus a day, usually mixed with protein powder and a banana as an evening snack (my all-time favorite, by the way).  I figured this was a better way to get healthy calories (the overall calorie level being something I still worry about often) than other options.  Is it ok for someone like me to drink Ensure or are there other options?  Like whole milk?" Listener Bob asks: "Hi Ben I am a new listener to your podcast and love the show. Please can you direct me to a good multi vitamin and give some information vitamin absorption. I have always been told that vitamins just make expensive urine. I have also ran across this new company called activz9. I am in the process of going over all the material on your website now. Having been out of the exercise and nutrition frame of mind for some 8 yrs now, it is a little overwhelming. In 2001 @ 40 yrs old I did my first and last full I-man in Oceanside Ca. (12hrs: 15mins) while really not knowing much about nutrition and training. Now a few pounds later and not much exercise I want to return to exercising and more important I want to start eating healthier. In the next few years I want to go to Kona Ironman. Thanks." In my response, I mention that I have now added two different "women's specific multi-vitamins" to the approved supplements list: EnerEssenceI and EneressenceII. EnerEssence I assists a woman's body in maintaining normal menstrual cycles and promotes a healthy reproductive system. It sets the stage for the future health of your immune, skeletal and cardiovascular systems. EnerEssence II meets the increased nutritional needs caused by physical stress and changes during menopause and supports hormonal balance, helping to make your transition a smooth one. Click here to learn more about either form, or about Enerprime, the multi-vitamin that I personally take. You can also e-mail ben@bengreenfieldfitness.com if you have questions about women's specific multi-vitamins. Listener Heidi Asks: "Hi Ben, I am a new listener and I think I am addicted to your pod-casts. THEY ARE GREAT! One question for you.  I was just diagnosed with Mono--YUCK. I used to be in the gym doing cardio and weights nearly every day but now, I have zero energy and have packed on about 10lbs. Its really frustrating because I know that I need to get back in the gym, but just going to work drains me. WHAT CAN/SHOULD I DO? Thanks so much." Listener Eric asks: "I have seen Pro triathletes ride in their Ironman races carrying only one bottle that is typically tucked behind their seat.  I have never seen any other evidence of other ‘places' or potential sources (like bulging jerseys w/ gel packs, etc.) for fueling needs.  Are these people just so well trained that they simply do not “need” to fuel much during their 112 mile ride, relying on their fat stores as fuel? If that is the case, how the heck do they do that?  Genetics? Training?" Listener Jason Asks: "My question is about weight training in the off season. In the past coming from a mindset of weight training for mussel size I have always lifted in a Olympic style of lifts, but now going into my 5 season of triathlon I am considering a more core style of training. The workouts that I have looked at as far as mass produced are P90X, Cyclo-Core, and the book Tri-power.So my question is if I only have 2-3 days for strength what should I focus on, or if I have 3 days what do you think of doing 2 core workouts and one Olympic workout?  I  have seen a improvement in my run from a little more core work out last year but I am not sure how to judge my core fitness to give myself the appropriate workout. PS I really appreciate your podcast and all the great information on diet and exercise that you put out there, I think that you are making a difference in the fitness level of America!" Listener Ace asks: "Hey ben! I'd like to suggest a topic for one of your upcoming podcasts. i am very curious about the impact of triathlon or heavy training on the female's reproductive system. there seems to be two paradoxical cases: - female triathletes (pro or non pro) who manage to have kids, despite being on the pill for many years of training (to avoid menstruating during races/training) - female triathletes who have apparently 'permanent' amenorrhea, and are not sure if they ever can have kids. also: - between progesterone, estrogen and testosterone, which one an amenorrheic (?) athlete lacks and what impact does that have on the long term? - if the athlete has a healthy diet and had enough calcium, potassium, vit D and magnesium in her diet, can she still risk having osteoporosis? It'd be great and very informative to have a specialist on the topic and have them milk the subject dry. btw, there was a thread on slowtwitch about 'do women/elite have sex drive?' that go over some aspects of these questions. Thanks!" Finally, listener Brittany has a call in question about Swine Flu, and listener Nick has a call in question about road bikes vs. triathlon bikes. Do you have a question? Remember, you can now ask your questions via *audio* to me via the free Skype software by simply “Skyping” me at username “pacificfit“. You can also call toll free to 1-877-209-9439 and leave a voicemail for Ben Greenfield. ----------------------------------------------------------- Special Announcements: 1) Ben Greenfield now has a pre-written holistic Ironman nutrition plan that is specifically designed for TrainingPeaks. Whether you have no clue what TrainingPeaks is or you already have a TrainingPeaks account and want to import the meal plan to your training calendar, you can check everything out by clicking here. 2) The new BenGreenfieldFitness cycling shorts and jerseys were released this week to a select group of triathletes and cyclists! If you are interested in getting a jersey and shorts, tri-suit, or tri-shorts and tri-top for yourself, simply e-mail ben@bengreenfieldfitness.com to be added to the next order, which will be placed by November 15. Here's what some athletes have had to say so far: Stephen says: "These Kits are sweet!  Comfortable, light weight with and the shorts have high quality pad.  Out of all my gear these kits are by far the most comfortable." Scott says: "Ben, Just got my Pacific Elite Fitness cycling jersey and shorts. Let me just say, I am an extremely picky shopper when it comes to cycling gear. Out of all the dozens of jerseys and shorts sitting in my closet, I have a new favorite that I will undoubtedly wear every time I go riding. It is true to its size, fits greats and is the most comfortable jersey I own. Plus, it looks awesome! Thanks again!" 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