Veterans Radio

Nick Wilson, Chief Revenue Officer for Legion Logistics, talks with host Jim Fausone about the company, its veteran owner and why NVBDC certification as a veteran owned business was so important to Legion and the power of NVBDC networking.

David Kent – Nashville SongwriterDave Bray USA – Rock ‘n Roll Patriot, Songwriter and PerformerNick Wilson, Chief Revenue Officer, Legion Logistics The Operation Song Alumni Group has been meeting for their spring ’23 songwriting sessions and the fruit of their most recent session (February 3, 2023) is a song titled “Welcome Home From Vietnam”. This song was a group write, along with the very acco...

Matt Amidon, Director of Veterans and Military Families at the George W Bush Institute in Texas, talks about policy recommendations for electeds in State Houses and Federal Government. These 8 policy recommendations are straight forward and important. These would help veterans and their families.  He talks with host Jim Fausone about how the average person can help get these ideas to their elected...

 VETERANS BENEFITS HOUR Our expert panel can help you with your VA Benefits: Brian Hayes, Ann Arbor VA Healthcare SystemBrig. Gen. Carol Ann Fausone (ret) – Legal Help for VeteransDavid Saims, Acting Director of the Washtenaw County, Michigan Veterans Service Office

Navy veteran talks about his mental health challenges, life after service, and finding a better life that includes voluntering with Team Rubicon.  Tim Kotulak deployed with Team Rubicon to Florida after Hurricane Ian and talks about the work and experience with host Jim Fausone.  

MIKE SARRAILLE REFLECTS ON MILITARY YEARS AND MOVING ON TO CIVILIAN LIFE During his 20-year career, he served as a Recon Marine, Scout-Sniper, and retired a U.S. Navy SEAL Officer. Much of his career was in the Special Operations community, including the elite Joint Special Operations Command. Along with careers in the military and business, Mike co-authored the best-selling book, The Talent War:...

Marty Strong spent 21 yrs in the Navy and then focused on being a business leader and author.  He has written "Be Nimble" and now "Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization."  It is a  business leadership book that demonstrates to existing and aspiring leaders the positive impact of applying flexibility, creativity and decisiveness to achieve results - even in uncertain times. ...

STAFF SGT. DAVID BELLAVIA, A RELUCTANT MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT Bellavia was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions while serving as a squad leader with the 1st Infantry Division in support of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq when a squad from his platoon became trapped by intense enemy fire. President Donald J. Trump presented the Medal of Honor during a ceremony at the White House in Was...

In January 2023 President Biden signed the AUTO for Veterans Act which changes the rules for 100% service disabled veterans and how much and how often they can obtain a VA grant to assist with adaptive vehicles.  Michael Harris, President of Michigan Paralyzed Veterans of America discusses the new law with host Jim Fausone.  

STORIES OF SERVICE IN MUSIC AND PROSE – ARMY AND COAST GUARD Dale Throneberry hosts our guests: George Meldrum – Vietnam Infantryman, 1968-1972Chuck Jones – Nashville Songwriter and PerformerCapt. Steven J. Craig (ret) – Coast Guard Reserves, author I was playing drums and doing vocals in a blues band when I was drafted in May of 1968. That was before the lottery and I was surprised one day at the...

Dr. James Peake served in the Army for 38 years.  He retired as a Lt. General in 2004.  He was the Army Sugeon General.  President GW Bush appointed him as Secretary of VA and he served as such in 2008 & 09.  He is now Senior Vice President with CGI Group an international IT and business process consulting  group. Dr. Peake is involved in CGI efforts to encourage veterans to consider IT careers wi...

VETERANS BENEFITS HOUR Our guests: Brian Hayes, Ann Arbor VA Healthcare SystemBrig. Gen. Carol Ann Fausone (ret) – Legal Help for Veterans Update on the PACT ACT and how it affects your benefits. Who is covered, Caregiver Benefits, New Presumptive Disabilities  

NVBDC.org brings a LA artist to our attention that wrote a tribute for veterans and first responders.  Jason M Jones talks about the military service of his brothers and sister and the inspiration for his song For the Heroes with host Jim Fausone.

REAL STORIES FROM MASH UNIT IN SOUTH VIETNAM Reuel Long’s experiences as an MD in the emergency rooms of Flint, Michigan, prepared him for only some of what he would see in a mobile army surgical hospital – MASH. Antiwar sentiment among the doctors in basic training at Fort Sam Houston set the tone for his tour as a general medical officer. In March 1971, the 27th MASH played a critical role treat...

The Iraq War’s only living Medal of Honor recipient tells the story behind one of the Iraq War’s legendary acts of valor; the men he fought with and the healing of reunion. In 2004, David Bellavia’s U.S. Army unit, an infantry bat­talion known as the Ramrods—2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division—fought and helped win the Battle of Fallujah, the bloodiest episode of the Iraq W...

Dr. Rebecca Grant,  Frequent guest on national news programs as well as Veterans Radio, provides fact-based global military analysis. Dr. Grant is a Military Historian/Author/Commentator and President of IRIS Independent Research. She is a regular guest on Fox Business with Charles Payne and several other news channels to inform citizens of the facts related to global military status. Dr. Grant co...

On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw himself onto the live grenade, shielding his fellow soldiers from the immediate explosion. Michael died thirty minutes later, having made the ultima...

Our guests this week include; Dr. Ken Hartman, Former Army Officer, Founder of Our Community Salutes Ben Kesling, Marine Iraq, Author, Wall Street Journalist Jason M Jones, Music Artist Our Community Salutes was started in 2009 by Dr. Ken Hartman to acknowledge high school kids that were enlisting in the military and support that family decision. This grassroots effort coordinated by OCS holds eve...

Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Kesling talks about a program started in 2014 to teach cooks field butchery skills and ethical foraging.  What happens when the supply lines do not exist for hot meals, MREs don't cut it and the troops need to live off the land?  Kesling looked into the reasons for, the courses taught and the ethics being talked about field butchery and ethical living off the land...

Happy New Year from all of us at Veterans Radio! One of our favorite programs from 2022. How Can You Mend This Purple Heart.  In this riveting first novel, winner of the Military Writers Society of America 2010 Silver Medal Award, author T.L. Gould draws upon his experience recovering in a military hospital to create a plain truth, no-holds-barred narrative, stark in its simplicity, detail and hum...

Caroline Walsh enlisted in the USCG and experienced good duty and bad.  She became an intel analyst for the USCG and then for the CIA.  Having now moved on to a PhD progam in leadership she has written a book "Fairly Smooth Operator" reflecting on that service.  She candidly discusses the sexual harassment and poor leadership in the USCG and offers some changes that could be implemented.  Caroline...

OPERATION SONG PRODUCES ALBUM FOR GOLD STAR FAMILIES Bob Regan, Mike Byer and Terry Gould of Operation Song, a non-profit, fully volunteer music production organization tells the stories of military veterans through song. Archived broadcast from April 2022. https://www.operationsong.org/

Former Marine and State of Michigan Attorney General, Mike Cox talks about the Camp LeJeune Justice Act; that claims against the government must be filed by August 2024; how it won't reduce your VA Disability Claim, how it allows family members to make a claim, and much more. Attorney Cox discusses his family's service in the Army, Marines and Navy with host Jim Fausone.  

RICK DUNGEY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CHRISTMAS SPIRIT FOUNDATION Christmas Spirit Foundation is a 501c3 charitable organization that has supported TREES FOR TROOPS for 18 years. Trees for Troops is a partnership with FedEx Freight. They have provided almost 300,000 free Christmas trees to the men and women of our armed forces since the program began in 2005. To support the foundation click here MARC L...

The George W. Bush Institute's Veteran Leadership Program discussed by Matt Amidon with host Jim Fausone.  This free executive leadership program brings together 50 scholars each year creating a network of civilian and military leaders.  The 2023 application window is open until January 18, 2023.  See www.bushcenter.org/standto