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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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  Mike Barno - Army +13 Total Videos

  3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division

  When a vehicle loaded with explosives blew up at the gate, dental officer Mike Barno hurried to his emergency assignment, triage at the aid station. A truck with wounded men from the Afghan Army pulled up and he jumped into the back, ready to help.

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  LTG David Barno - Army +14 Total Videos

  Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan

  Following the tragic deaths of ten Afghan children, it fell on General David Barno to tell President Karzai about the incident. He describes the effect this had on the rules of engagement going forward and he discusses a document he drew up to give guidelines to the troops that would keep them in the good graces of their hosts.

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  Mike Barno - Army +13 Total Videos

  3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division

  Mike Barno explains why it may not be a great idea to take a free phone from a CIA guy. Another incident with a care package full of soap caused him to take some flack from the other guys.

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  Patty Justice +4 Total Videos

  7303rd Medical Training Support Battalion, 1st Medical Training Brigade

  Justice details a too-close-for-comfort interaction with a vehicle-borne IED. The IED came as a complete surprise and the entire F.O.B. fell into what Justice could only describe as “chaos” immediately following the explosion. She suffered several injuries and had to work with the nurses back in Bagram and depend on the friendship of comrade Colonel Ellison to come back from the injuries.

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  LTG David Barno - Army +14 Total Videos

  Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan

  What's it like for a retired general to watch from the sidelines as wars continue? David Barno answers that and has a few observations about how his former command in Afghanistan is being managed.

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  Michael Boyce - Marines +3 Total Videos

  USMC, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expedition Brigade, 1st-4th Air Wings

  Mr. Boyce discusses working with many Kurds and Iraqi civilians for about a year following the end of the first Gulf War.

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  Chris Pinkerton - Army +16 Total Videos

  25th ID (ABN)

  2LT Pinkerton dramatically recalls what happened after an explosive projectile slammed into an army truck injuring two buddies and killing an officer all the soldiers respected.

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  Peter Sprenger - Army +15 Total Videos

  101st Airborne

  Slammed by powerful explosives, 2LT Sprenger describes the sheer terror of being blinded and badly injured. He relives the heroic efforts of those who helped him scramble to safety.

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  Mike Schlitz - Army +5 Total Videos

  4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division

  Mike Schlitz tells about the circumstances that led to his injury and all of the life changes that occurred as a result.

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  Robert Wolfe - Air Force +8 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Air Force wives are tough. Bob Wolfe was over the ocean looking for Soviet ships when his wife checked herself into the hospital to deliver their first child. She joined him briefly at his next post in Columbia, but she stayed at home while he was in Ethiopia on a mapping mission. While there, he had an odd encounter with some local tribesmen.

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  Retired Command Sergeant Major Michael Hall recalls the strong physicality of the Ranger battalions in his day and relates that to the bond of respect and responsibility that connects all Rangers. His intent was to serve his four year enlistment and go to college, but he kept coming back for one more tour, one more tour.

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  Robert Wolfe - Air Force +8 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Air Force ROTC was Bob Wolfe's introduction to the military. After navigator training he was flying photo missions for the Army map service when the Cuban missile crisis brought the Cold War to the forefront of national attention. He was sent to Bermuda, where he flew missions looking for Soviet ships bound for Cuba.

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  War movies had convinced young Michael Hall that he wanted to be a Marine, but when he visited the recruiting offices, he found something that might be even better, the Army Rangers. After a short stay in the regular infantry, he secured the assignment to the Rangers, where his life was changed the very first day.

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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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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  He was happy as a platoon sergeant in a Ranger rifle company, so when he was considered for Command Sergeant Major, Michael Hall was ambivalent. Would he be removed from close relationships with the men? But in a series of assignments at that job, he found great professional satisfaction.

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  Harold Sterrett - Air Force +13 Total Videos

  Strategic Air Command (SAC)

  After his Vietnam tour, Air Force photo interpreter Rollie Sterrett was transferred to the Strategic Air Command and assigned to the photo reconnaissance wing. He soon caught the eye of the new SAC commander and became the daily briefing officer for SAC with an emphasis on B-52 operations in Vietnam.

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  What are the basic sustainable standards when training an elite force? As Gen Stanley McChrystal's Command Sergeant Major, Michael Hall helped him develop the Big Four, four standards that all Rangers must master. They are marksmanship, physical training, medical training and small unit battle drills.

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  Harold Sterrett - Air Force +13 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  At the time, Rollie Sterrett thought you had to be a pilot to advance in his specialty in the Air Force intelligence community. That turned out not to be the case, but he had no regrets leaving the service for a successful private life.

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  The Army Rangers were formed not only as an elite strike force but also as a crucible to spread field experience and knowledge throughout the military. In his long career, Michael Hall found many instances of this in many different organizations. The experiment had succeeded.

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  Henry Choy - Navy +6 Total Videos

  29th Brigade, Hawaiian National Guard

  Before heading off to Iraq, Choy took the time he still had in the US and got married. Soon after, he was instructed to first go to Fort Bliss for more training. Having already had skills in construction, that got him placed in an Iraqi Battalion. Once he was in Iraq, he unfortunately saw a few injuries and deaths of different men. The real tragic part of those stories is the majority of them were accidents.

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  Harold Sterrett - Air Force +13 Total Videos

  Strategic Air Command (SAC)

  Rollie Sterrett describes the daily life in the Strategic Air Command's underground command facility. His job started at midnight, preparing the morning briefing for all strategic matters worldwide.

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  Dick Myers - Air Force +5 Total Videos

  Pentagon

  With over 30 years of service in the military, Dick Myers was about to be nominated as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but September 11th, 2001 would prove to be a much more eventful day than he anticipated. (Interview conducted in partnership with the Eisenhower Foundation as part of their Ike's Soldiers program. https://eisenhowerfoundation.net & http://ikessoldiers.com)

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  The Ranger creed, it's not just a poem that you recite at PT. Longtime Ranger Michael Hall explains what it means to live the Ranger creed.

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  Dick Myers - Air Force +5 Total Videos

  Joint Chiefs of Staff

  Following the September 11th attacks, the path to war was unclear. Dick Myers describes the weeks following from his position as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (Interview conducted in partnership with the Eisenhower Foundation as part of their Ike's Soldiers program. https://eisenhowerfoundation.net & http://ikessoldiers.com)

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  Henry Choy - Navy +6 Total Videos

  29th Brigade, Hawaiian National Guard

  Henry Choy tells about the living conditions he had while constructing buildings in Iraq, as well as a few humorous stories he witnessed while over there. One of the biggest issues they faced was that it was hard to tell which Iraqis were allied with the US and which were not, sometimes to the point where they couldn't trust their own interpreters. At one point he and his brigade were acting as escorts for convoys trying to get from Kuwait to Iraq.

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  The Ranger experience affects the man throughout his life. Michael Hall's life was changed his very first day as a Ranger and whether you served thirty years or just a few, the lessons learned there made you a better man.

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  Henry Choy - Navy +6 Total Videos

  29th Brigade, Hawaiian National Guard

  After a long year of training, building, riding, and surviving in Iraq, Choy had finally completed his tour. He came home around the age of retirement, and so he did retire shortly after returning. He gives some reflections about the Vietnam and Iraq wars, and how they compared and contrasted. Specifically, the treatment of soldiers who came home after the war was over.

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  Dick Myers - Air Force +5 Total Videos

  Joint Chiefs of Staff

  Leading men in war is a difficult task for many, and leading many men through wars in two countries is not something you can prepare for. Dick Myers reflects on the weight of making decisions at the level at which he served. (Interview conducted in partnership with the Eisenhower Foundation as part of their Ike's Soldiers program. https://eisenhowerfoundation.net & http://ikessoldiers.com)

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  CSM Michael Hall - Army +8 Total Videos

  75th Ranger Regiment

  What do the Big Four training standards enable the Ranger force to do? There are two primary missions, according to Retired Command Sergeant Major Michael Hall. The first is forced entry into a denied country to establish an airhead for follow-on forces and the second is the special operations combined forces raid.