Into The Breach

After every plan fell through when Recon Marine Garrett Smith left active duty, he got into Stanford, chose Silicon Valley over a government career and used his veteran network to co-found Reveal, a defense tech startup built to fix the outdated maps and poor situational awareness he dealt with in combat. In this conversation, he covers taking the Marine recon course at 32, raising money in ventur...

Marine Corps combat veteran and CEO of Reveal Technology, Garrett Smith, shares his journey from enlisted 0311 infantryman to Afghanistan combat leader and defense-tech entrepreneur. From rocket attacks and special-operations missions in Helmand Province to Marine Corps leadership, veteran transition, drones, and building technology for the modern battlefield, this is a candid conversation about p...

Army Ranger and physician Marshal Bahr reveals how veterans can navigate VA disability claims, medical evidence, PTSD, and PACT Act benefits after a denial.

75th Ranger Medic Marshal Bahr shares the realities of combat trauma medicine, Iraq and Afghanistan deployments, moral injury, and PTSD inside the 75th Ranger Regiment. After the VA denied his disability claim, he became a physician and built Xterra Health to help veterans navigate care, recovery, and life after service.

Tim Kennedy’s new podcast and apology, Specialist Kearns backing a Bradley into a fence and skipping deployment, and the Not in Regs Discord NSFW folder being called Marines United 2.0.

Nick Laidlaw joins Into the Breach to unpack Tim Kennedy’s failed apology one year later, the explosive Specialist Kearns recruiting drama, and the Not in Regs Discord scandal shaking the veteran community. Nick is also going full-time war journalist and has started Zero Line Dispatch.

Afghan Combat Veteran Justin Doefler reveals the night of September 4, 2009, when he locked onto a silent Tic-Tac UAP with infrared while on tower guard at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan — watching it race up to a jet, stop dead, dart around it, then shoot straight into space at hypersonic speed with zero propulsion signature.

Afghanistan combat veteran Justin Doefler reveals the night of September 4, 2009, when he tracked an unidentified craft on infrared as it stopped instantly beside a jet over Camp Leatherneck, darted around it with no propulsion or heat signature, then shot straight into space. After keeping the UAP encounter secret for seven years, a prophetic dream and over 1,000 hours of Bible research led him t...

Air Force Pararescue (PJ) Aaron Love, talks about the brutal mental and physical 2 year training pipeline—SERE, military freefall, combat dive, the intense 7.5-month Military Pararescue Provider Program to become a nationally registered paramedic and putting it all together to earn the beret.

Aaron Love, a retired Air Force Pararescue Operator with over 20 years of service, opens up his time in the PJ pipeline, earning his beret, and his first high-stakes rescue — hoisting a dying sailor off a supertanker in the North Sea. In this episode he breaks down the 91% attrition rate, the brutal multi-year training pipeline, working alongside elite international operators, and how he’s now tra...

Morgan Lerette rips the Global War on Terrorism Memorial foundations financials as their CEO tripled his salary as they lost nearly $500,000.

GWOT veterans Morgan Lerette and Ethan Nagel discuss the widely condemned new Global War on Terrorism Memorial design that many are calling an abomination and a complete failure to honor those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Morgan Laurette breaks down the flawed design, the GWOT Memorial Foundation’s massive financial losses, the insider-heavy design committee and why veterans are demanding C...

Marine infantryman Jared Anderson went from being woken by enemy tracer rounds overhead during the Iraq invasion to being called back into combat on the brutal streets of Ramadi.

Marine Combat Veteran Gabe Henderson raced into a vicious Ramadi ambush to rescue a pinned-down patrol, then fought a day-and-a-half in the April Battle of Ramadi.

Marine veteran Gabe Henderson fights through a heart murmur that nearly ends his career before storming into Ramadi’s brutal street fighting as a SAW gunner in 2004. He charges through savage firefights and dark battlefield humor across three combat deployments before transforming into a professional race driver in this raw story of unbreakable Marine resilience.

Marine Raider Joshua Shores delivers one of the rawest accounts of MARSOC combat in Afghanistan — from standing on a Russian minefield, danger-close B-1 bomber strikes, and the unbreakable brotherhood that carried them through Helmand’s Wild West.

The boys are back and we discuss Soviet Cinema, War Hammer 40k and yes, the wars are still going on.

MARSOC Raider, Purple Heart recipient and author Joshua Shores delivers one of the most brutal, unflinching combat accounts of the Iraq War you will ever hear — from the blood-soaked, bullet-riddled streets of Ramadi 2005 with 1st Battalion 5th Marines to becoming one of the very first MARSOC Marine Raiders in Afghanistan.

Michael Edwards shares his journey from Ranger cadre to leading CIA-backed indigenous forces alongside DEVGRU Red Squadron in the classified Omega Program.

The boys jump into the UK Rallies, social contracts, culture and norms and wanting to move to Ukraine to play with hand grenades.

Michael Edwards is a highly decorated U.S. Army Ranger who served with the elite Tier 1 Ranger Reconnaissance Detachment and alongside CIA Omega Teams during combat operations in Afghanistan. During the Battle of Tal Afar in Iraq, he earned the Silver Star for extraordinary bravery after charging into an insurgent stronghold and shielding his teammates from a grenade blast. Edwards completed multi...

In this powerful interview, Justin shares his raw, firsthand account of **Black Sunday** — the Battle of Sadr City that turned his unit’s very first routine patrol into one of the deadliest days in the Iraq War. What began as a standard escort mission quickly spiraled into chaos when hundreds of Mahdi Army insurgents ambushed them in the narrow streets of Sadr City. Justin and his brothers fought...

Russia's Victory Parade has no mechanized vehicles because they have none, a califfornia mayor is caught spieing for the chinese and we discuss the book ordinary men and "just following orders" discussion.

Nick is back and we dive into the situations he missed while overseas on his honeymoon - spoiler - it was alot.

Justin Bellamy served with 2-5 Cavalry and lived through one of the most intense battles of the Iraq War — Black Sunday. What started as a routine patrol in Sadr City turned into a fight for survival against over 1,000 insurgents. His platoon took heavy casualties, Justin was hit by shrapnel from a pipe bomb, they ran black on ammo, and escaped by riding an M1 Abrams tank out of the kill zone. Tha...