STORIES FROM OTHER CONFLICTS

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  LTG Ken Keen - Army +7 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  During the earthquake relief effort in Haiti, LTG Ken Keen ran into a sergeant he knew who had a request for the commanders of the operation. He wanted to see friendly waves when he left, not other gestures.

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  Dionne Archibald - Navy +6 Total Videos

  Multiple Ships and Units

  After thirty years of service, Dionne Archibald left the Navy, but her passion to help people continued. Her non-profit organization Active Veterans With Answers acts as a bridge between veterans and the VA, to make sure they have access to all their benefits.

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  Geoff Farrell - Army +8 Total Videos

  2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment

  Thermal imaging had been around for a while and Geoff Farrell was very familiar with it. GPS, however, was new and expensive, and no one was familiar with it. Both were integral to the swift victory in Desert Storm. Before his deployment he declined a dose of an experimental drug that was supposed to protect against chemical weapons and he wonders if that drug contributed to Gulf War Syndrome.

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  Jim Bolan - Army +13 Total Videos

  1st Special Forces Group

  After his last tour in Korea, Jim Bolan was assigned to Special Forces. No volunteering needed. Everything was highly classified and they began training with no real system in place. Different units were then combined to form the 1st Special Forces Group, based on Okinawa.

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  Paul Berry - Army +16 Total Videos

  514th Ambulance Company, 36th Medical Battalion

  While treating Iraqi prisoners during Desert Storm, medic Paul Berry had a couple of experiences that really disturbed him. One was having to peel the skin from a badly burned soldier. The other was when a group of children were brought in. They had been hit by a cluster bomb. (Caution: strong language)

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  Gary Howard - Army +6 Total Videos

  287th Military Police Company

  The tension between East and West in Cold War Berlin was a very palpable thing. Gary Howard served as an MP there and he had a constant worry that things could blow up quickly.

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  Stanley McChrystal - Army +9 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  The Ranger Creed is more than a mindless mantra to General Stanley McChrystal. It is a solemn promise to every other Ranger.

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  LTG David Barno - Army +14 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  The invasion of Kuwait was a heavily mechanized operation, so infantry commander David Barno watched that from afar. In the 90's, the Army was focused on various peacekeeping operations. Was that going to be their new focus? On September 11, 2001, it became clear what the new mission would be.

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  Rick Goddard - Air Force +8 Total Videos

  Strategic Air Command

  In his Air Force career, he got to fly some incredible aircraft, the most advanced of their time. It wasn't a period of low stress, though, as the threat of nuclear war was looming. Rick Goddard describes Operation Looking Glass and the measures taken to train for the event of a nuclear attack.

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  LTG (Ret) Freddy McFarren - Army +10 Total Videos

  18th Field Artillery Brigade

  When Freddy McFarren assumed command of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade, he told his staff the entire brigade would never be deployed. It turns out that he was wrong, thanks to a Middle East despot named Saddam Hussein.

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  George Theis - Air Force +7 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  George Theis could fly a lot of different planes but he did have favorites. He got to fly jet aircraft as well, before he retired, a long way from the glider he piloted into Germany.

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  Bob Ratonyi +17 Total Videos

  Hungarian Civilian

  His family was not very religious, but they followed all the Jewish traditions and holy days. Bob Ratonyi had barely survived the Holocaust and then he was faced with more oppression of religion when Hungary became a Communist satellite of the USSR.

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  Alex Adkins +14 Total Videos

  3rd Battalion, 1st Marines

  On his way back from Mogadishu, Alex Adkins had the pleasure of a Tiger Cruise. This allows male relatives to sail with the Marines from Hawaii back to San Diego. His father joined him and got to fire many weapons from the fan tail. Where was all this ammo when I was in Mogadishu?

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  GEN (Ret) Dan Allyn - Army +15 Total Videos

  82nd Airborne Division

  Dan Allyn returned to the 82nd Airborne as a brigade S4 and it was there that he got to know legendary Ranger John Abizaid who was his brigade commander. He was enjoying this assignment but then his friend Ken Keen let him know that command of the 3rd Ranger Battalion was up for grabs.

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

  Multiple Units

  As the old draft Army was changed to an all volunteer force, Bob Clark was part of the team at Fort Lewis raising up a new division. But, as this was happening, the dreaded RIF, the Reduction in Force program, began.

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  Marvin Cole - Army +10 Total Videos

  1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment

  It was a very difficult program to get into, but Marvin Cole persisted and was one of the final candidates standing to be admitted to the Army's physician assistant training program. After that, he was sent to Germany where his management ability got him noticed.

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  LTG (Ret) Quinn Becker - Army +9 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Army surgeon Quinn Becker almost retired but he was selected to attend the War College. That usually meant they were grooming you for higher up. As he moved up to higher commands, he set out to modernize antiquated field medical equipment, a need he had first noticed years before.

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  Jake Jacobson - Army +8 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Retired Green Beret Jake Jacobson tells how he came to boycott San Francisco and then acknowledges a couple of inspiring leaders he had in the Army. He also encountered what he considered very bad leadership.

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  Michael Hull - Army +9 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Michael Hull wanted to wait for his son to graduate high school in Canada so he extended his assignment there despite being told it would sink his next promotion. Turned out it did not so he continued his career as a full Colonel. A major highlight was his time at the Pentagon where he helped shepherd the Apache and Blackhawk programs through the budgeting process.

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  Alex Adkins - Marines +14 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  He was college bound. Alex Adkins had decided not to reenlist and instead entered Cape Fear Community College. He was doing well but had a nagging feeling he should return to service. He transferred to Texas A&M for law school but there was a problem. It wasn't a law school, it was a football school.

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  Gilbert Howland - Army +16 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  He had served in the mountains of Burma and the mountains of Italy. Now, Gilbert Howland was serving at Fort Dix and trying to find enough whitewash for his part of the base. (This interview made possible with the support of DAVID W. MARQUEZ.)

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  Angela Beltz - Army +11 Total Videos

  134th Quartermaster Detachment

  If you are a woman veteran, reach out, find a network of women who have been there. That's the advice of Angela Beltz, a veteran of Desert Storm. (Interview conducted at, and with the assistance of, the National Veterans Memorial & Museum- https://nationalvmm.org/)

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

  Multiple Units

  The Army reinvented itself after Vietnam. The NCO corps was professionalized with new schools and many other lessons learned were applied. Bob Clark rose through the ranks during this time in some key roles.

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  Walt Richardson - Air Force +11 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  Asked what was the strangest thing he saw in the Air Force, Walt Richardson recalls a visit to a Japanese bath house while he was stationed in Okinawa. The proprietor had never seen a black man before and was puzzled about something.

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  Alex Adkins - Marines +14 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  On his way to work, Alex Adkins heard a brief news story on the radio about a plane hitting one of the Twin Towers. He didn't think much about it but when he got to work, everyone was gathered around a television. It was the beginning of an era.

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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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  Al Stiles - Navy +16 Total Videos

  USS Talbot (FFG-4)

  Following his two deployments to Vietnam, Al Stiles first had shore duty in Philadelphia, which didn't go so well, and then duty aboard the USS Talbot, a guided missile frigate, which was a good command.

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  Brooks Tucker - Marines +11 Total Videos

  1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment

  There has been a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on ever since Operation Desert Storm was halted after only 100 hours of fighting. Brooks Tucker was a Marine infantry platoon leader during that conflict and he has some definite opinions on it.

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  Brig Gen Tom Fleming - Air Force +12 Total Videos

  Multiple Units

  From the beginning, Tom Fleming wanted to be a fighter pilot. He settled for a tour as a forward air controller in Vietnam and, after that, his quest for fighters continued as he embarked on a lengthy Air Force career. That career took him to Turkey, Germany, many stateside bases and the Pentagon, but it was Hawaii that was most satisfactory.

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  Paul Berry - Army +16 Total Videos

  514th Ambulance Company, 36th Medical Battalion

  Not long before he left Saudi Arabia after Desert Storm, Paul Berry created a lot of trouble for himself when he did something he thought was no big deal. He called his mama.