Patriot to the Core
Latest Episodes
Ep 119 | Mark Roland – Insider Attack!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)