Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFinding Purpose After 9/11; A Soldier’s Journey (Benjamin Bolen)
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A pipe purchase, a recruiter’s wave, and a high school morning watching the towers fall—Ben’s story is a chain of small moments that …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
From Orphanage To OCEANS: A Veteran’s Road (Doug Brinker)
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A boy raised in a children’s home becomes a teenage helmsman on a destroyer, threads 40‑foot seas to Beirut, hauls cargo into Falluja…
4 months ago
A Soldier’s Journey From Poverty To Purpose (Darrel Johnikins)
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A single choice to skip a class set Darrel on a path that reshaped everything—poverty to purpose, private to leader, soldier to deput…
4 months ago
From Detroit To The Flight Line (Nick Beller)
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A kid from Detroit peers into a recruiter’s window, falls for the shine of tiny tanks, and years later finds himself keeping real hel…
4 months, 1 week ago
From Detroit To The DMZ (Gerard Krenzel)
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A sunburn that almost became a court-martial, an M60 that felt heavier than the moment, and a van painted the wrong color because the…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How A Detroit Kid Became A Soldier, Leader, And Mentor (Chuck Fowlkes)
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A Detroit childhood filled with Belle Isle picnics, DIY bike “Olympics,” and a grandparents’ house that welcomed everyone set the sta…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
From Detroit Streets To Duty And Film (Glen Wilkewitz)
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A childhood reshaped by an expressway, a career born from a newspaper ad, and a camera that followed him from training fields to a wa…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Running Toward Service: Michelle Boulter’s Path
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What if the structure you craved as a kid became the engine of your entire life? Michelle Boulter takes us from dirt roads in Otsego,…
6 months, 1 week ago
He Didn’t Want To Go To War, But He Went And Led Men (David Dargo)
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A seven-acre childhood with backyard goalposts, glass oil jars at a full-service station, and pickup baseball games—Dave’s life start…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
From Navy Decks To School Fields (Bill Taft)
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A quiet act of bravery can change the course of a life. For Bill Taft, it started with a decision to enlist rather than be drafted, a…
6 months, 3 weeks ago