Miguel Saenz

The Quarter Deck With Gunny Saenz

Society EN ↓ 148 episodes

Everyday life events have changed since I retired from the United States Marine Corps. I'm a Gunnery Sergeant, and I want to share my experiences.

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Miguel Saenz

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Society

Latest episode

Sep 4, 2025

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Episodes

Stop Loss, Stop Move 03.11.2022

Corporal Lewis Kenneth Bausell Keeping Units in place on their current Deployments

The troops are finally being Deployed 27.10.2022

With The 1st Marine Division in Iraq, 2003. No Greater Friend, No Worse Enemy. Finally, troops are being deployed into the country. Va has a new Insurance policy starting in January of 2023 anyone 80 and under with a service-connected disability can apply.

Steel On Target The 1st Marine Divisions Plan Becomes Reality. 20.10.2022

State Benefits to look for once you receive a disability rating from the VA.

Fire Support Planning for the 1st Marine Division Iraq 2003 13.10.2022

Veteran homelessness is a vast topic; there are so many resources, and everyone should know about them. The 1st Marine Division has started to plan for fire support and what they intend to have as priority targets as the 1st Marine division prepares to deploy to Kuwait.

Fine Tuning The Plan To Move into Iraq with The 1sr Marine Dividion 06.10.2022

The 1st Marine Division is fine-tuning the plan in order to move into Iraq and complete the mission as fast as possible. VA health care is another essential factor to consider once you are getting out of active duty.

VA contact information Updating, The 1st marine Division Intelligence planning 29.09.2022

How important is it to ensure your current contact information with the VA? It is the way that The VA will contact you. So you must make sure that if you move you have to update it. Our book With The 1st Marine Division "Mo Better Friend, No Worse Enemy " continues with the intelligence planning and the possibility of going through Bagdad.

Requesting Records and the Intelligence Planning for Blue Diamond 22.09.2022

VA.GOV our Go website With The 1st Marine Division In Iraq, 2003 "No Better Friend, No Worst enemy"

Sept 15, 2022 VA Letters and 1st Marine Division has Boots on The Ground 15.09.2022

VA benefits letters are just another tool in your pocket. That allows you to take advantage of all the different State Benefits out there. The 1st Marine Division has Boots on the ground with an advance party.

September 9, 2022 10.09.2022

Let's Remember September 11th and what it means. Va ID and how you can benefit from having one.

September 1, 2022 Suicide Prevention Month 02.09.2022

September marks suicide awareness, and we must pay attention to the signs. Public affairs and communications are essential to the 1st Marine Division.

August 25, 2022 VA Disability Forms and 1st Marine division augmentation planning 26.08.2022

The week that we will be discussing disability compensation. How to fill out the VA form 21-526EZ to apply for compensation benefits. "No Greater Friend, No Worst Enemy" the 1st Marine division is planning to augment all the units as they are all short-handed as they prepare to deploy.

August 18, 2022 Types of Disability Claims, 1st Marine Division Casualty planning 18.08.2022

There are so many different types of disability claims that you can submit. So we take a look at them one by one. There is so much that goes into planning for combat. Casualties are one of them and the division planned ahead to make sure that everything was covered.

August 12, 2022 FSSG the new plan for Blue Diamond 13.08.2022

What makes you eligible to apply for disability compensation? The 1st Marine division works up a plan to maintain supplies to the front lines.

Disability Compensation 05.08.2022

We are moving to VA Disability Compensation and oh boy there is a whole lot to talk about. Our journey is continuing as we read the next chapter in our book "No better friend, No worst enemy"

Applying for VA Education Benefits and reading of No Better Friend No Worst Enemy 30.07.2022

We close out our discussion about VA Education Benefits and read about the NBC training that the 1st Marine division did to prepare for the fighting ahead.

VA Survivor Benefits and reading of No Better Friend, No worst enemy 23.07.2022

Education for dependents what a great benefit.  The 1st Marine division is getting closer and closer 

July 14, 2022 15.07.2022

The Journey continues. We continue our weekly discussion about VA benefits and the application process for them.

VRNE and all about Chuck Norris Jokes!!!!! 07.06.2022

This week we discuss VRNE and our next chapter in the reading of our book. We also look into some favorite Chuck Norris Jokes 

So Many Changes 28.05.2022

Let's talk VA benefits and continue to read our book "With the 1st Marine Division in Iraq, 2003 No Greater Friend, No Worse enemy

Chapter 2 No Greater Friend, No Worst enemy 05.03.2022

The first Marine Division "Blue Diamond" is getting closer and closer to being prepared to deploy as soon as the President gives the word.  

September 25, 2021 25.09.2021

We continue reading...Chapter 1 of "no Better Friend, No worst Enemy

A Reflection of current events 15.09.2021

Back on the grind. It's time to get back and reflect on everything that has been accomplished.

The Fun Continues 30.03.2021

A brief summary of this episode

Episode 26 Working The Streets on The Depot..... 05.02.2021

A typical day of what is expected of a Marine Corps Drill Instructor. 

The beginning of the end for my Recruits 09.01.2021

Ahhh yes its is finally time to get started with my B Billet and slay bodies!!!!!!

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