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Adrian interviews Freddie DeBoer about the current state, and future of education and the GI Bill. If you want to read more about education, check out Freddie's ANOVA blog project at https://fredrikdeboer.com Not a subscriber? You're missing out on bonus content! Sign up for the patreon today! - www.patreon.com/hellofawaytodie The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang N...

Teaser for the Bonus Episode with Will Menaker from Chapo Traphouse, in which Will, Adrian and Francis nerd out about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Get access to the full episode here - https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie

The group talks about Sarah Palin attempting to remain relevant through facebook memes claiming that if you want free college, you should join up. Unfortunately she chose the cigarette smoking Marine Cpl. Blake Miller, who after the battle of Fallujah didn't go on to get a masters in accounting and instead suffers from obvious PTSD. We also talk about Tom Friedman and are confused as to why obviou...

Nate and Francis talk about a new bill in Congress that aims to charge troops to use their GI Bill benefits, and all the other ways budget cuts seem to screw over Soldiers instead of new Aircraft Carriers. After that, they make fun of the new 'R' devices for Bronze Stars so drone pilots can feel special about their combat missions in between weekends at Vegas strip clubs. GI Bill story by twitter....

The fire team is back with a new episode talking about the MOAB, Best Korea saber rattling, and just how useless American counterinsurgency training is, was, and will be. Not a subscriber? You're missing out on bonus content! Sign up for the patreon today! - https://www.patreon.com/hellofawaytodie The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeser...

Derek Davison (@dwdavison9318)is back on the podcast as he and Francis try to parse out the recent American attack on a Syrian Airbase. Come join us on a journey of frustration and confusion. Derek's article - https://attwiw.com/2017/04/07/conflict-i-e-syria-update-april-7-2017/ Running list of liberal publications selling a new war - https://twitter.com/liberalism_txt/status/850803763086585856 De...

Preview of a bonus episode where Francis and Matt Christman (@cushbomb) talk about the third movie of the Starship Troopers franchise, and how it lines up with politics today. Would you like to know more? - https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie

Francis talks with James LaPorta, a freelance journalist and a former U.S. Marine infantry squad leader and intelligence chief. He frequently covers national security and veterans issues. We talk Marines United, intelligence collecting and the possibility that Ivan is standing outside our windows listening to both of us. James on Twitter - https://twitter.com/jimlaporta Check out his writing for D...

Adrian takes point to talk about the double standard for criminal punishment that exists between Generals, officers and all the lowly privates. The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis - twitter.com/armystrang Nate - twitter.com/inthesedeserts Adrian - www.instagram.com/presumptuous_nominee/

This week, the team discusses the unredeemable George W. Bush and his paintings of wounded veterans. Plus, we discuss Chelsea Clinton's possible run for office and all manner of other Army nonsense Read Adrian's article on Portraits of Redemption here - https://medium.com/@HellOfAWay/why-do-we-venerate-george-w-bushs-creepy-war-portraits-ec0105fe56b6 The Podcast - twitter.com/hellofaway Francis -...

Teresa Fazio, former Marine Corps officer, joins us at the smoke deck to talk about the recent nudes sharing scandal blowing up all over the military. She tells us how something like this is neither new or surprising, and we discuss how we've seen this during our own service and how a failure of leadership propagates these behaviors Read Thomas Brennan's story breaking the news here - https://www....

Adrian talks with Swedish soldier Mikael Skillt about the politics of soldiers, and how quickly that goes out the window as soon as you take incoming fire. Follow Mikael on twitter at https://twitter.com/MikaelSkillt and be handy with the twitter translate function. If you want access to this and other bonus content, consider a $5 monthly pledge to the podcast at: https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawa...

Trump is promising us a $54b increase to the military budget so we can by more Ripits and Copenhagen long cut. The three talk about insane ways we've personally seen money spent by the Army, from buying useless shit that doesn't work, to just lighting it all on fire. Your tax dollars at work! We're going to start putting up regular articles and linking our work here as well, but be sure to follow...

How bad do you need to screw up to get charged with murder in a War Zone? We talk about the the push to get a pardon for Lt. Clint Lorance, a guy who managed to go to jail for killing people in Iraq, and why he should stay there. Adam Linehan article - http://taskandpurpose.com/think-lt-clint-lorance-murderer/ Article about the CIA bungling pretty much everything having to do with Iraq and ISIS We...

First bonus episod with Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic) of Chapo Trap House as we talk midwest gunfucking and the left

Adrian is out hunting Ukranian Nazis so Francis and Nate are joined by Derek Davison, an expert on Iran. We talk about the Iran/Iraq war, the history of American foreign policy with Iran and if Francis is going to get smeared across the Persian Gulf in an eventual ground war against the Iranian military. Follow Derek for middle east news and general twitter goodness - https://twitter.com/dwdavison...

Should a leftist join the American military, or does that just make you a tool for the imperial war machine? Is there anything a lefty can learn from serving, or is it all just a waste of time? This week the team expands on Adrian's article in Task and Purpose, responding to the Deadspin article by Hamilton Nolan about why you shouldn't join the military under the current administration. Hamilton...

This week we talk about the Muslim ban and the roots of Islamophobia in America and what it means for troops like us who have spent time in some of these banned countries PATREON IS UP. Give your money to troops directly. Don't let the government funnel it through the tax system. They mess it up anyway. www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie Pick Up The Road Ahead, now available wherever books may be www...

Welcome to the free release of the first bonus episode with Nate and Adrian as they talk about their book, The Road Ahead. After this all other bonus episodes will be behind out $5 a month paywall accessible through out Patreon page, www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie Pick Up The Road Ahead, now available wherever books may be www.amazon.com/Road-Ahead-Storie…War/dp/1681773074 The Podcast - twitter.c...

So you have a socialist America. Great! Now what do you do with the most powerful military in the world? The team discusses the role of the warfighter in this brave new world. PATREON IS UP. Give your money to troops directly. Don't let the government funnel it through the tax system. They mess it up anyway. www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie Pick Up The Road Ahead, now available wherever books may b...

The fire team discusses if we're ready for the next big war, and what that war might entail (provided we don't just nuke each other seven times over.) PATREON IS UP. Give your money to troops directly. Don't let the government funnel it through the tax system. They mess it up anyway https://www.patreon.com/Hellofawaytodie Pick Up The Road Ahead, now available wherever books may be https://www.amaz...

The fireteam talks about the Draft starting with the Civil War and going up to the 1980s selective service act. Is it right to send resistant hippies to the front lines? Do we even want them there? Also, the Patreon is in the process of getting approved and we'll put that info out when we have it. Like us, subscribe to us and follow us on our various accounts The Podcast - https://twitter.com/hell...

Adrian Bonenberger joins Nate and Francis to talk about the GI Bill, the post 9/11 bill and all the ways the military like to call you worthless and unable to function in polite society. In the news segment, we discuss the DoD health officials warning that energy drinks, the very life blood of the deployed troop, are suddenly bad for you. Support the troops and pick up The Road Ahead: Stories Of t...

Francis and Nate chat about Christmas overseas, care packages and getting drunk in a war zone

Nate and Joker talk about Payday loans and other ways people who don't love the troops try to dick us over. In the news section, we mourn the passing of the M113 Armored personnel carrier and all those grunts from Vietnam to today forced to sit inside the damn things