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Back to SearchFrom Foster Care To The Marine Corps (Calvin Jones)
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A kid from Lansing gets pulled out of a stable home, dropped into foster care, and learns to survive by becoming self-sufficient. Yea…
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Thom Miller Shares How Travel And Service Built His Values
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A bottle of Canadian Club sounds like a punchline until it turns into a lifeline on a late night in Marseille. We talk with Thom Mill…
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A Veteran’s Journey Through War Trauma And Healing (Bill Krieger)
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He survived Mosul, but the hardest fight started after he came home. Bill Krieger, a U.S. Navy veteran and Michigan National Guard mi…
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From Army Brat To Intel Officer (Keith Lane)
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A HIMARS battalion fires 372 rockets and hits 372 targets. Years later, the same planner is fighting a different battle: drone warfar…
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I Enlisted Three Months Before 9/11 And Never Looked Back (Jessica Linna)
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A lot of veteran stories get flattened into headlines. Jessica Linna’s doesn’t. She enlisted in the Michigan Army National Guard in 2…
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A Soldier’s Story Of Family, War, And What Comes After (Dave Lewis)
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Getting fired after a bar fight is not most people’s origin story for military service, but for Dave Lewis it lands just days before …
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A Soldier, A Teacher, A Lifelong Learner (Jerry Ockert)
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A sleigh rescue from a blizzard. Kerosene lamps in a farmhouse without electricity. A young man drafted during Korea who ends up rebu…
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From Jersey To Jump Wings; A Soldier’s Path (Cedric Davis)
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The bus doors swung open at Fort Dix and five drill sergeants stared him down—by 0400, bunks were tipping, cans were banging, and Ced…
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From Polio To Black Belt: A Soldier’s Unlikely Path (Andrew Glenn)
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A draft notice rerouted Andrew Glenn from German beer halls to a rain-soaked tarmac at Fort Campbell, where a drill sergeant’s bark s…
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How One Soldier-Statesman Turned Family, Faith, And Grit Into Community Change (Adam Hollier)
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A Detroit childhood two blocks from his parents. Spanish-immersion school, homestays in Senegal and Venezuela, and a front-row seat t…
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