Veterans Radio

Veterans Stories This week on Veterans Radio, it’s all about veterans’ stories. First up, we have local Ann Arbor Builders who have honored our friend and co-founder of Veterans Radio the late Gary Lillie. Second, we talk with Glen Munroe from Jordan Reses Supply Company and Veterans Matter, who are sponsoring the 1st Annual Silver Star Event to eliminate Veteran Homelessness. Finally, we will tal...

Battle Rattle: A Last Memoir of World War II This week on Veterans Radio, we look back at World War II through the eyes of 94-year-old WWII veteran Roger Boas. “The war has changed me in ways that will take the better part of my life to understand, let alone make peace with,” begins Roger Boas in his thoughtful, compelling account of World War II. As part of the Fourth Armored Division, he found h...

Humor in Uniform This week on Veterans Radio, join host Dale Throneberry and his guests, authors Bob Woolsey and Mark Benvenuto , as we take a humorous look at their outrageous antics while attempting to serve our country. We all knew guys like these when we served. Many provided the comic relief we needed. We loved them then, and we still do. Don’t miss this fun-filled hour on Veterans Radio. Gen...

Wins for Warriors Foundation and Brig. Gen. Allison Hickey (ret.) Sandy Hudson , Executive Director/CEO of the Wins For Warriors Foundation & Brigadier General Allison Hickey USAF (ret). Wins for Warriors Foundation advocates for and invests in resources that engage veterans and their families to live a resilient life. In August 2013, Detroit Tigers All-Star pitcher Justin Verlander announced...

Legend: Medal of Honor Recipient Roy Benavidez The unforgettable account and courageous actions of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez reveal how he risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines. In Legend , acclaimed bestselling author Eric Blehm uses the Vietnam War as his backdrop, focusing specifically on...

Last Days In Vietnam The Academy Award-nominated documentary Last Days in Vietnam premieres on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at 9:00 PM Eastern on your local PBS station. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War , the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. The United States has only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the cou...

WAR IN EUROPE ENDS! The time is May 1945, Germany surrenders to the Allies, ending World War II in the European Theater. Join guest Military Authors, John C. McManus and Kevin Hymel , along with host Bob Gould , as they discuss the events of 1933-1945.

Our guests this week include: Jennifer Giering , Senior Director of the Hiring Our Heroes program from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. She will be talking about the Hiring Our Heroes program and its goal of helping America’s businesses hire over 500,000 veterans. Next is Joyce Faulkner , former President of the Military Writers Society of America and current board member and co-founder of...

Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and WWII Hollywood helped win World War II , and by that, we don’t mean John Wayne, but five of the country’s most celebrated film directors, who went to work making films for the War Department that showed Americans at war, overseas and in the skies, living, fighting, bleeding, and dying. Those films changed America and changed the men who made them, including...

At Ease! How time flies! With its April 27 edition, “At Ease” begins its second year on Veterans Radio. Host and bestselling author Dwight Jon Zimmerman celebrates the start of the show’s sophomore year by welcoming new guests artist/writer Wayne Vansant and retired SEAL Mike Ritland , and returning guest New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts , who talk about their latest books. PIRATE...

Helping Civilian Mental Healthcare Providers Work With Their Military Patients. This week on Veterans Radio, we will be discussing the stigma many veterans have about going to see civilian mental health providers. Most soldiers returning from deployment believe that civilian mental health providers do not understand their specific issues and therefore refuse to visit these providers. Our guests fr...

Powerful Peace : A Navy Seal’s Lessons on Peace from a Lifetime at War J. Robert DuBois is a security advisor who was once labeled a “smart power authority” while assisting U.S., British and Iraqi forces in Baghdad. A multilingual Navy SEAL with experience in more than thirty nations, he retired in 2006…then headed back into Iraq and Afghanistan to support commanders facing complex threat situatio...

Our featured topic is Medal of Honor Recipient, Father Emil Kapaun In 1950, Father Emil J. Kapaun , Chaplain, US Army, a native of Pilsen, Kansas, was Chaplain of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Korea. He distinguished himself on the field of battle, both as a soldier and a Chaplain. During the early days of the Korean War, Father Kapaun ministered both spiritually and physically t...

A compelling memoir, and an action-packed, teen angst and alienation, urban-fantasy novel are the books discussed as AT EASE Dwight Zimmerman rings out the old year. It’s a surprising author mix, but tune in and you’ll see why we did it. Stand To—A Journey to Manhood — E. Franklin Evans had watched every war movie John Wayne ever made, sometimes several times over. When the “Duke” led his men, war...

Missing Dog Tags: An American GI in North Korea Our guest this week on Veterans Radio is Ken Eaton, author of Missing Dog Tags , a true story of escape, evasion and recapture told by an American prisoner of war in North Korea. The Korean War is known as “The Forgotten War”, but you don’t want to miss this amazing true story of American ingenuity and survival. Ken Eaton was captured by the Chinese...

Major General Patrick Henry Brady / Dead Men Flying Our guest this week on Veterans Radio is Major General Patrick Henry Brady , who spent over 34 years in the Army serving across the world. He is one of America’s most decorated veterans. While in Vietnam, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for a series of rescues during which he used 3 helicopters to rescue over 60 wounded. At the end of the day,...

AT EASE! “At Ease” Goes Nautical on April 28, piping aboard distinguished authors Craig L. Symonds and Larry Bond who will discuss their books The Battle of Midway and Exit Plan , and more. AT EASE is hosted by award-winning author and newest member of the Veterans Radio Crew Dwight Jon Zimmerman.

“An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. More than 6500 veteran suicides are logged every year-more than the total number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq combined since those wars began.” – New York Times (April 15, 2012) The Department of Veterans Affairs is increasing its mental heal...

Our featured guest is author Maria Goodavage In her new book, Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America’s Canine Heroes (Dutton Penguin), Maria Goodavage opens up a whole new world for dog lovers in her intrepidly reported, richly illustrated, heartwarming account of the dogs who play an increasingly vital role in our military efforts. “[A] highly recommended book if you have the slightest interes...

Encore Presentation (Originally Aired 19 June 2010) This was one of our late partner, Gary Lillie’s, favourite programs. Hosted by Gary with his guests, Charles Raymond Calhoun , the captain of the Dewey, and sailor Murl Eastman , who worked below-decks. During the typhoon the captain gripped a vertical pipe that became horizontal as the ship rolled, looking between his feet at the ocean below, wh...

Air Force Defense Strategy Into The Next Decade Host Bob Gould’s guest was Dr. Rebecca Grant , President of Iris Independent Research who focused on joint doctrine, airpower history and defense strategy. Dr. Grant has been a frequent guest on Veterans Radio. She discusses the past Cold War weapons like the B-52 and U-2 spy plans and the future F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the F-22 Stealth Fighter...

Join Veterans Radio in welcoming Bob Calvert , founder and host of Talking With Heroes to our program this Saturday morning. Since 2003 Bob has been doing video interviews, mostly by himself, with our troops and putting them up on YouTube. The Talking with Heroes program is not about politics. It is about helping, honoring, and supporting our men and women in the military and their families. Talki...

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear your favorite award-winning authors. Broadcasting live from the Annual Military Writers Conference at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott. Join host Dale Throneberry and his guests, some of the finest military writers in America. Many of these authors have appeared on Veterans Radio in the past, and many more will be on the program in the future.

Mission to Berlin: The American Airmen Who Struck The Heart Of Hitler’s Reich This is a great and important book that gives the average reader a real sense in the heroism and danger of air combat in World War II. It is difficult to imagine today just how complex a mechanism that a 1,000-airplane bomber raid, involving 15,000 men, was. Nor can we envision just how furiously a bitter, dying Germany...

Our guests today are Bob Drury, Tom Clavin, and Marine Sgt. Steve Schuller Last Men Out. The True Story of America’s Heroic Final Hours in Vietnam. In a gripping, moment-by-moment narrative based on a wealth of recently declassified documents and in-depth interviews, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin focus on the story of the eleven young Marines who were the last men to leave, rescued from the Embassy roo...