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  Keith Nightingale - Army +27 Total Videos

  2nd Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division

  Clowns in action. That's how Keith Nightingale describes the confusion and snafus during the initial Grenada operation. Most objectives were quickly achieved but there were some difficult battles, including one with a Cuban unit. When the Rangers got to the medical school where American students were waiting, they found out about a second campus with more students. Part 2 of 3.

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  Olin Rossman - Army +7 Total Videos

  1st Battalion. 87th Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division

  Everyone remembers Black Hawk Down but the incident portrayed in that movie was not the first time a Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Mogadishu. Squad leader Olin Rossman woke up to the words, "Get up and get your squad. We have a bird down." He joined the convoy headed to the crash site. Part 1 of 2. (Caution: strong language)

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  BG Robert L. Stewart - Army +16 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  After the Challenger tragedy, NASA mission specialist Bob Stewart returned to the Army where they made him a general. He worked at the Strategic Defense Command, a legacy of Ronald Reagan's SDI program. At some point the Army wanted him in Washington DC, at which point he promoted himself to ski bum.

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  Clarence Dodd +4 Total Videos

  US Army

  In 1946, Clarence Dodd left the Merchant Marines and went back to the farm. He was called back to service in 1952 and sent to cryptography school on the strength of his test scores. He never used this skill while he was in the Army. They put him in personnel instead.

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  Dennis Smith - Air Force +13 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  It was 1990 and Dennis Smith had put in his retirement papers. That was when he learned about Stop-Loss. The general had one more job for him.

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  Brig Gen Tom Fleming - Air Force +12 Total Videos

  Joint Staff (JS)

  As Operation Desert Shield gave way to Operation Desert Storm, the Pentagon needed someone like a fighter pilot to brief the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of Defense on biological and chemical warfare in language they could understand. So, Tom Fleming became the "bugs and gas guy."

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  Roland Guidry - Air Force +18 Total Videos

  8th Special Operations Squadron

  Operation Eagle Claw was a pivotal moment in Special Operations history. Unconventional warfare had been ignored after the Vietnam War and three veterans of that conflict, who were also deeply involved with the attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran, reveal the inside story of the planning and tragic outcome. George Ferkes, Roland Guidry and Keith Nightingale each offer a unique perspective on the events.

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  LTG (Ret) Lawson W. Magruder III - Army +14 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  The army had to plan for operations that were short of total war, stability and security operations. Lawson Magruder worked with a team writing new light infantry doctrine, which was the type of force that would be tasked with these missions. Ironically, he was soon at the 10th Mountain Division, which was destined for Somalia.

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  Charlie Hooper - Navy +3 Total Videos

  USS Scanner (YAGR-5)

  It was boring duty on the radar picket ship off California. Charlie Hooper didn't mind that as much as the fact that the crew contained many delinquents, who chose the Navy over jail.

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  Changiz Lahidji - Army +8 Total Videos

  Green Beret

  The recruiter asked if he really wanted to try for special forces. You're not big enough, he said. Changiz Lahidji, having already served in the Iranian special forces, assured him he was. At jump school, he broke an ankle and didn't let on, but his sergeant knew.

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  Harold Sterrett - Air Force +13 Total Videos

  Strategic Air Command (SAC)

  During his time at the Strategic Air Command, Rollie Sterrett had to give private briefings to a Navy Admiral who wasn't allowed in the general briefings due to arcane inter-service politics. The first question from the admiral forced Rollie to make a delicate choice, but he chose well.

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  Bob Ratonyi +17 Total Videos

  Hungarian Civilian

  It was all propaganda, everything on the radio and in the newspapers. That was life in communist Hungary as Bob Ratonyi was coming of age. He urged his mother to take an offered post as the party representative at her factory so she could take advantage of it.

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  Command Sergeant Major Michael Hall reviews the list of posts and commands from his 34 year career in the Army Rangers.

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  LTG (Ret) Lawson W. Magruder III - Army +14 Total Videos

  10th Mountain Division

  Lawson Magruder, who commanded troops in the Somali deployment, was disturbed by what he discovered after the conflict was over. Partisan distrust following a change of administrations had sidelined the most experienced diplomat in the area. This contributed to an already bad situation.

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  Bill Greinke - Army +18 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  His time with the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood was the best time of his Army career. Bill Greinke bested a well known commander in a war game and he went on splendid maneuvers in Europe at the Fulda Gap. Then he moved on to specialized training in media and information.

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  Don Cope - Air Force +5 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Don Cope loved the military life. It was a challenge but very rewarding. He only retired from the Air Force because his next assignment would have separated him from his family.

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  Gary Howard - Army +6 Total Videos

  287th Military Police Company

  The skills he learned as an MP in the Army helped Gary Howard thrive in his new career of law enforcement. He started as an entry level officer and rose to head the department as Sheriff.

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  Ed Fulghum - Army +14 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  After rejoining the Army as an MP, Ed Fulghum returned to Korea where he guarded inspection teams. His next assignment, back in the States, was in a Military Government company, which was trained to rebuild and reset devastated areas. He decide that the Military Police was a career dead end, so he returned to the infantry.

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  Bob Ratonyi +17 Total Videos

  Hungarian Civilian

  It was near anarchy in Budapest following the fall of the Nazis. Many were starving surrounded by rubble. Bob Ratonyi was overjoyed when his mother returned from a labor camp but then he watched as communists turned Hungary into a Stalinist dictatorship.

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  Changiz Lahidji - Army +8 Total Videos

  Green Beret

  Born in Iran, Changiz Lahidji served in the Shah's special forces before emigrating to the US in 1973. Feeling a need to prove himself in his new country, he enlisted in the military.

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  George Ferkes - Air Force +12 Total Videos

  8th Special Operations Squadron

  Operation Eagle Claw was a pivotal moment in Special Operations history. Unconventional warfare had been ignored after the Vietnam War and three veterans of that conflict, who were also deeply involved with the attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran, reveal the inside story of the planning and tragic outcome. George Ferkes, Roland Guidry and Keith Nightingale each offer a unique perspective on the events.

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  Joseph Hudson - Army +8 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved but the Cold War was heating up. The band at Fort Meade was broken up and Joseph Hudson had to return to more critical duties. He was sent to Germany for five years, where he worked in personnel, due to a surgically repaired back. He returned to Fort Benning to finish a twenty year career.

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  Paul Berry - Army +16 Total Videos

  514th Ambulance Company, 36th Medical Battalion

  Paul Berry saved a few t-shirts from his time in the Army but there is one that is special. From the Desert Storm deployment with the 514th Ambulance Company, a shirt that only a select few have.

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  Howie Bachman - Army +19 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  His second return from Vietnam was a little hazy due to the friendly and generous flight crew on the airliner from Seattle to Houston. First it was grad school for Howie Bachman and then a career that alternated between the Pentagon and command in the field. While at Rice University, he set some people straight about how real soldiers felt about the Calley trial.

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  Keith Nightingale - Army +27 Total Videos

  Joint Task Force Eagle Claw

  After the tragic events at Desert One, planning began for another rescue mission. Parallel with this was the decision to create a permanent and robust special operations structure. Keith Nightingale was right in the middle of this difficult effort which involved all the services.

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  LTG (Ret) Robert T. Clark - Army +15 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  After commanding troops in combat as a lieutenant in Vietnam and as a colonel in Iraq, Bob Clark still had a lot of service left in him. He had more commands including the 101st Airborne Division before he finally retired. He reveals some of the insights that he learned during his career.

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  Paul Berry - Army +16 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  When Paul Berry was driving an ambulance in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm, he had an accident and flipped it over. He was not injured, he thought, and it would be three years before a problem with his neck was discovered. This would eventually cause him to leave the Army.

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  Charlie Hooper - Navy +3 Total Videos

  USS Scanner (YAGR-5)

  Two officers gave him trouble in the Navy and one of them nearly killed him with incompetent medical care. He relates those stories and describes his successful career path once he left the service.

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  LTG (Ret) Lawson W. Magruder III - Army +14 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Family and faith helped LTG Lawson Magruder cope with the harder parts of a long career. That and a resilient state of mind. The new digital world may be making this kind of balance more difficult.

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  Bob Ratonyi +17 Total Videos

  Hungarian Civilian

  It was a shakedown. Bob Ratonyi saw that he had to go off the trail and around the soldier collecting the money. Along with six others, he was making an attempt to escape communist Hungary after the brutal putdown of the Hungarian Uprising. He stumbled through the dark and found a group of peasants, but they were part of the operation, too. Part 4 of 4