Take a visceral dive into the combat experience through the eyes of a tank platoon leader on VBC Happy Hour. Galen Peterson is a West Point graduate who led a tank platoon in combat in Iraq and later commanded a tank company. He saw some of the heaviest fighting of the war in Sadr City
In December 1992, 1,800 United States Marines arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, to spearhead Operation Restore Hope. Brad Graft was one of those Marines. Hear him talk about his service and the amazing historical fiction novels he's written since then.
Tonight, we remember Tet with Vietnam veterans who served during 1968. Tet should be remembered like Pearl Harbor or 9/11—as a world-changing event and turning point in US history. We'll discuss that history, hear first-hand accounts, and talk about lessons learned.
We mark International Holocaust Remembrace Day, the 77th anniversary of Auschwitz’s Liberation, with Scott Masters and Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Pinchas was just 7 years old when the war began. He and his family were captured in April 1943 and deported to Majdanek death camp, where his mother, father, and sister were
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Gus” Pagonis takes a rare break from running his 40-acre horse ranch to join our VBC Coffee Hour next week to talk about leadership and lessons learned from masterminding logistics for Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1990-1991.
Nothing sparks a trip down memory lane quite like music. This week on The Scuttlebutt we are joined by Vietnam veteran, Donn Nemchick (Navy), Post 9/11 veteran, Ryan Ahl (Army), and special guest, music historian and self-proclaimed "music dork", Kevin Koch to discuss the unforgettable music of the Vietnam era. Including Creedence Clearwater Revival,
