Patriot to the Core

Patriot to the Core


Latest Episodes

Ep 119 | Mark Roland – Insider Attack!
November 25, 2024

Matthew Roland was killed-in-action in Afghanistan in August 2015 in an insider attack (aka “green on blue”) at an Afghan-led security checkpoint. Killed alongside him was teammate SSgt Forrest Sibley

Ep 118 | Michael Madsen – Army Judge Advocate (JAG) | Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivor
July 01, 2024

Michael Madsen is a Judge Advocate in the US Army. His current full-time job is an Attorney for the Air Force and hes a JAG in the Army Reserves. After graduating law school and completing a JD/MBA p

Ep 117 | Matthew Longanacre – AH-64D Apache Pilot Overhead Mark in Afghanistan
May 27, 2024

CW4 Matthew Longanacre (Matthew on Facebook) was an AH-64D Apache Pilot with 1-101 Aviation Regiment Expect No Mercy. He was the Pilot-In-Command of one of the two Apaches that were overhead when Ma

Ep 116 | Eric Moutsos – Freedom, Liberty, and Non-Essential
May 06, 2024

Eric Moutsos (@ericmoutsos) is a small business owner and creator ofFreedom Blends, a supplement company based on the principles of Freedom and Liberty. A former Salt Lake City Police Officer, Moutso

Ep 115 | Brian Jodice – Men’s Heath and Recognizing Signs of Suicide
April 15, 2024

Brian Jodice (@brianjodice) of Pick Up The Six Productions and NGBN TV is back to promote this new network for men in their 40s, 50s and 60s. Discussed in this episode: -why focus on this demograph

Ep 114 | Joe O’Keefe – Hunting Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora in 2001
January 22, 2024

Within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, Air Force Combat Controller Joe OKeefe was in Afghanistan working with the CIA and other special operations units. Joe and his small team made their way into the mou

Ep 113 | Hershel “Woody” Williams – Medal of Honor Recipient from Iwo Jima
January 01, 2024

The late Woody Williams will never forget the odor of burning human remains. There are some things about that 4 hours that have bothered me my whole life I cant remember going back and getting the

Ep 112 | Mark Schmitz – Disaster at Abbey Gate
December 11, 2023

Mark Schmitzs son, LCpl Jared Schmitz, was one of the 13 Americans murdered at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, on 26 August 2021 during the evacuation from Afghanistan. He was just 20 ye

Ep 111 | Don Stevens – Security Forces, Combat Control, Burn the Ships, PTSD
November 06, 2023

Don Stevens is one of those rare operators who retrained into the Air Force combat control (CCT) pipeline at the age of 32, after being in security forces. This required uncommon humility since leader

Ep 110 | Special: Kenny Alicea & Mark Forester – Beautiful Symphony of Death and Destruction
September 29, 2023

On this 13th anniversary of the death of my brother, SrA Mark Forester, I have the opportunity to talk with Kenny Alicea who was the Senior Weapons Sergeant for his Army Special Forces team (ODA 7212)