American Warrior Radio

"With Them Frontlines" will be so much more than just a video game. While featuring actual missions undertaken by actual warriors is pretty cool, merging the game with other technologies to gain insights into PTSD treatment is a REAL game changer.  Former Green Beret now Chief Operating Officer Shawn Piatz joins us.

On Nov. 18, 1952 Royce Williams found himself in a desperate solo dogfight against six Russian MIG-15's. He shot down four of them. When he landed back on his carrier, 263 holes were found in his plane. Because of the political ramifications, Royce was awarded a Silver Star and told to keep the mission secret..which he did for 50 years. In 2023 his Silver Star was upgraded to the Navy Cross - the...

Former Navy SEAL Todd Erlich had a vision for an all natural recovery drink that would be like "liquid aspirin". He founded Kill Cliff beverages with $100,000 in savings. Todd has been featured on the Inc. 500 "Top CEO's" list twice.

Police widow Nohemy Hite and "Rock and Roll Patriot" Dave Bray join us to share their perspectives during National Police Week.

"Ernie & Joe; Crisis Cops" is multiple award winning HBO documentary that follows two San Antonio police officers and their work to help persons experiencing a mental health crisis. Officer Ernie Stevens joins us.

“Fly Girls Revolt” by Dr. Eileen Bjorkman tell the stories of the pioneering woman who had to fight in order to allow women to fly in combat. Eileen logged more than 700 hours in 25 different types of military aircraft as a flight test engineer and retired from the Air Force as a Colonel.

“To The End of the Earth” is the last installment in Professor John McManus ’ trilogy about the US Army in the Pacific during World War II. This book chronicles the events beginning with the retaking of the Philippines and takes readers through the final capitulation of the Japanese empire.

The Coalition to Salute America’s Heroes provides support for Veterans severely wounded fighting in the Global War on Terror. Two representatives join us for this broadcast. Donny Daughenbaugh is the Senior VP for Development and Administration. He was shot in the face when his Marine Squad was engaged south of Baghdad. The bullet lodged at the base of his skull near his spine so doctors chose to...

The mission of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations is to identify, exploit and neutralize criminal, intelligence and terrorist threats to the Air Force, Department of Defense and the US Government. Special Agent "John Smith" (not his real name) performed counter-intelligence work in Panama and helped build the case against Manuel Noriega.

The Soldier's Child Foundation provides support for the children of fallen warriors. They currently serve over 5,000 children in all 50 states. Navy Veteran and creator of the foundation, Daryl Mackin joins us.

Country music artist Colton James has always held a deep respect for those who serve in the military and first responder communities. He is leading an initiative to build a 15,000 square foot lodge in southern Virginia where these families can reconnect and relax in the great outdoors.

Independent filmmakers Ken & Betty Rodgers have produced a powerful new documentary titled "I Married the War". The film tells the stories of 11 military wives whose lives were forever changed when their spouses returned from combat. Ken Rodgers saw combat in Vietnam with the Marine Corps and was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds received at the Battle of Khe San.

A-10 pilot Kim Campbell's aircraft was hit by a surface to air missile over Baghdad, knocking out the planes hydraulics. She was able to nurse her badly damaged plane 300 miles back to base. Maintainers counted more than 600 holes in her aircraft. Kim would be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for that mission. 

Marine Veteran Travis Partington created Oscar Mike Radio as an avenue for Veterans to share their stories as part of their healing. 

"Navy Week" is an outreach program conducted by the Navy. They schedule events in communities that don't traditionally have a strong Navy presence. Four sailors participating in the Tucson Navy Week activities join us.

Army Ranger Greg Drobny believes the "Sheepdog" analogy is overly simplistic and flawed. He shares his thoughts.

Space Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins has spent more than 872 hours in space and logged 6,751 hours in the cockpits of 30 different types of aircraft.  In 1995 she became the first woman to pilot a space shuttle and then in 1999, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission. 

Buchenwald concentration camp was the worst sight Tim Kiniry has ever seen. That is saying a lot considering he spent World War II as part of the 45th Evacuation Hospital, witnessing the horrors of war up close and personal. Tim says he normally fainted at the sight of blood so working in a hospital would not have been his first choice, but “That is what I was ordered to do so I tried to do the be...

Steven Myers is a two-time Air Force Veteran and a self-described “serial entrepreneur”. He has founded no fewer than four companies and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.  He became the first American to fly an aircraft into the Kamchatka Peninsula since Charles Lindbergh. That adventure and the joint venture set up through that mission is subject of his best-selling book “C...

Brad Taylor served 21 years in the US Army, 8 of those with the elite Delta Force. He is the author of sixteen best selling thriller novels.

Scott Faith of the Havok Journal joins us for an update from my go to website for all things military and first responder.

Combat Control Foundation founding members Mike Lamonica and Mike West join us to discuss some of our military’s most highly trained warriors. The motto of Combat Controllers is “First There” and is derived from World War II when Pathfinders were inserted in advance of other troops in order to provide weather information and visual guidance for inbound aircraft.

Darrell Ahrens recounts some of his adventures as a fighter pilot - some of them quite humrous. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and 13 Air Medals while flying combat in Vietnam.

Wade Hubbard only spent five years in the US Air Force. Duing that time he was awarded FIVE Distinguished Flying Cross Medals, 30 Air Medals and a Purple Heart flying as a "back seater" in an F-4 Phantom.

The P-51 Mustang changed the course of the air war in Europe, but it almost didn’t make it off the assembly line.  The story of the Mustang’s evolution and the pilots that flew it in combat is the subject of a great new book by David & Margaret White titled “ Wings of War; The World War II Fighter Plane That Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly.”