Military Unsung Heroes

Military Unsung Heroes

We are giving the everyday military member the celebrity treatment. Keeping it light, fun, and full of tall tales. Taking a look at the lives from all the military branches. Look for us every Friday at your favorite place to listen to podcasts.

Episodes

July 28, 2023 44 mins
- Enlisted in January of 2006 as an MP.

- Left for OSUT (One Stop Unit Training) in April of 2006 (Basic Training and AIT were combined)

- Returned home to my Unit and remained just a regular MDAY(basic one weekend a month, two weeks a year) Soldier for two years.

- In 2008 was offered a full-time Technician job at JFHQ in Santa Fe, I accepted and became the Tuition Manager for the state.

- In 2010 our state was being mobilized for a r...
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June 30, 2023 73 mins

Assignments July 2002 - August 2002, Student, Basic Military Training, 321 TRS, Lackland AFB, TX August 2002 - November 2002, Student, Electronic Principles, 344 TRS, Lackland AFB, TX November 2002 - March 2003, Student, Missile and Space Systems Electronic Maintenance Training, 532 TRS, Vandenberg SFB, CA March 2003 - June 2006, ICBM Electro-mechanical Technician, 90 MMXS, F.E. Warren AFB, WY June 2006 - June 2008, Wing ICBM Codes...
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June 16, 2023 78 mins
Major James E. Webber was born and raised in Leavenworth, Kansas, where he graduated with honors from Leavenworth Senior High School in 1968. After four years in the Air Force ROTC program at Washburn University in Topeka, he graduated in 1972 with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant as a Minuteman Nuclear Missile Launch
Officer at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne Wyoming. Major Webber achieved...
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June 2, 2023 47 mins
Col John Cornett is Deputy Director, Inspections Directorate and Inspection Team Chief, The Inspection Agency, Department of the Air Force. The Inspections Directorate provides inspections and reporting for Department-level Field Operating Agencies, Direct Reporting Units, oversight inspections of Major Commands, and special inspections as directed by The Inspector General
and Secretary of the Air Force. Col Cornett received his com...
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May 19, 2023 65 mins
Christian served in the United States Army from 2011 to 2016 as a Military Police
Officer. He began my military career by completing One Station Unit Training at Fort
Leonard Wood, Missouri, where I received training in law enforcement and military
tactics.
Upon graduation, He was assigned to the 110th Military Police Company, stationed at Fort
Carson, Colorado. He worked diligently to learn and improve my skills as an MP. In 2012, He
wa...
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May 5, 2023 78 mins
Daniel Baldwin is a North Carolina Army National Guard veteran. He joined in 2003 and became a Military policeman at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and stayed an MP through his whole career. Throughout Daniels 18 years of service, he deployed 3 times. His deployments were at locations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba. During these deployments he was in charge of receiving detainees. Daniel acquired 7.5 years of active time while deployed...
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April 21, 2023 58 mins
I enlisted in 2005. My first duty station was Schofield barracks HI and I worked at Wheeler Army Airfield from 2005 to 2008. I deployed with the 25ID for 8 months to Iraq with 25ID. When I was in Hawaii, I was 68th Medivac and rotated with the S3 3-25ID S3 and flight operations. My 2nd duty station was good ole Fort Bragg 82CAB. I was there for 1 year and reenlisted. I did not deploy. I had my second child and had surgery. I was wi...
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April 14, 2023 31 mins
Gary Hostetler was born in Hope Arkansas, October 18 1932. Joined the Air Force in October of 1951. He completed basic training and went to MP School at Camp Gordon, Ga. His first assignment was in Okinawa, Japan. He stayed here for 2 years as a security Forces member guarding the B52s. he was then transferred to tinker AFB where he met his wife and had their first child. transsferred again in may 1957 to Rushmore Air Force Stati...
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April 7, 2023 87 mins
Justin McFarland enlisted in the United States Navy in 97 during His senior year of high school and departed for basic training after graduation in 98. Justin was stationed on the USS Hawes FFG-53, a guided missile frigate that has since been decommissioned. He departed for a Mediterranean Cruise in early 2000, and in October of that year, the USS Hawes were the first responders to the bombing of the USS Cole in Aiden, Yemen. That ...
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March 31, 2023 74 mins
“For over decade, Sean served this Great Nation as an Intelligence & Operations Professional via Human Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Intelligence Analysis, Foreign Advisor, and Combat Arms in the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, Private Contractor and Consulting arenas. Sean has multiple Overseas Deployments and Stateside Missions, Advanced Training via Formal Schools, Professional Military Education, Certifi...
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March 24, 2023 67 mins
Originally from Lake County, Indiana, Chief Lewis enlisted in the U.S. Air Force immediately after
September 11 th , 2001. He went to Air Force Basic Training immediately after high school at Lackland Air Force Base (AFB), Texas. He chose to be a Missile and Space Systems Technician (2MOX2A) and began technical school at Lackland AFB studying Electronic Principles with phase two at Vandenberg AFB, California. In 2003 a deployment op...
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March 17, 2023 72 mins
Chief Master Sergeant Charles L. Wilkin is the Senior Enlisted Leader, 341st Maintenance Group, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. In this role, he is responsbile for leading 450 Airmen in the safe, secure, and reliable sustainment of the Minuteman III weapon system at 150 launch facilities and 15
launch control centers throughout a 13,800 square-mile complex. Originally from Sidney, Ohio, Chief Wilkin entered the Air Force in July ...
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March 10, 2023 95 mins
SMSgt Virgil A. Castro is the Superintendent, Maintenance Division, Nuclear Inspections Directorate, Department of the Air Force Inspection Agency, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. As the Maintenance Division Superintendent, he is responsible for the execution and integration of Air Force Nuclear Inspection Core Teams overseeing five Major Graded Areas for the Department of Air Force Inspection Agency conducted Nuclear Su...
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March 3, 2023 78 mins
Major Christopher Wood is the Commander of the 420th Munitions Squadron, RAF Welford, United Kingdom. He is responsible for all munitions operations to maintain USAFE’s second largest weapons stockpile valued at $403 million in War Reserve Materiel. He is also charged with directly supporting the Bomber Task Force at RAF Fairford, and additional taskings from EUCOM. A native of Norco California, Major Wood received his commi...
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