Latest British army Podcast Episodes
War Story 005: with Jeff Bodell, USMC
Veteran State Of Mind Network - July 06, 2024 04:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsJeff Bodell is a United States Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan. He is the author of The Warfighter's Lounge: A Marine's Experience of Combat in Marjah, Afghanistan Follow Jeff on Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/the_warfighters_lounge/ Order Jeff's book here: https://www.am...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 219: with Kelsi Sheren
Veteran State Of Mind Network - June 11, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsA conversation with Kelsi Sheren. 'Kelsi has solidified herself as a prominent Keynote Speaker, delivering inspirating talks at venues like Harvard, TEDx and several others. Her powerful speeches resonate with audiences, offering a unique perspective on her journey and dedication to supporting o...
War Story 004: with Steve Brown
Veteran State Of Mind Network - May 23, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsSteve Brown is a 27 year veteran of the British Army, serving in the Parachute Regiment from 1993-2020. During his career he completed six tours of duty with 3 PARA and the Pathfinders, worked in arctic, desert and jungle environments, and spent 9 years teaching combat survival to servicemen and...
Veteran State Of Mind 218: with John Dixon
Veteran State Of Mind Network - May 07, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsA conversation with John Dixon, who served in Australia's elite 2nd Commando Regiment. You can connect with John on instagram: @johns_op Signed copies of Geraint's new book, D-Day: The Unheard Tapes: www.geraintjonesmedia.com Audiobook/ ebook/ unsigned copies of Geraint's new book, D-Day: Th...
War Story 003: Jared Prewitt, USMC
Veteran State Of Mind Network - April 08, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsJared Prewitt served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the United States Marine Corps. You can connect with Jared here: https://jaredprewittwritesstuff.com/ and find his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Itll-Buff-Out-Nothing-Hopeless-Surviving/dp/B0CJ4KDWMY You can connect with the podcast on i...
War Story 002: with Ben, Royal Marines Commandos
Veteran State Of Mind Network - March 04, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsBen served in the Royal Marines. In this episode, we discuss his multiple tours in Afghanistan. You can connect with the podcast on instagram @veteranstateofmind You can become a supporter of the podcast for as little as £1 a month. https://www.patreon.com/vsompodcast Thank you to our sponsor...
War Story 001: with John Dixon, 2nd Commando Regiment
Veteran State Of Mind Network - February 07, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsJohn Dixon served in Australia's elite 2nd Commando Regiment. In this episode, we discuss John's multiple tours to Afghanistan. You can connect with John on instagram: @johns_op You can become a supporter of the podcast for as little as £1 a month. https://www.patreon.com/vsompodcast Thank yo...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 217: with Mikael Cook
Veteran State Of Mind Network - December 15, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsMikael Cook is a former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant and veteran of the war in Afghanistan. During the August 2021 evacuation of Afghanistan, Mikael was apart of the #DigitalDunkirk team that saved thousands of our Afghan allies that had been left for dead. He was personally responsible for the evac...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 216: with Scott Horton
Veteran State Of Mind Network - November 28, 2023 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsScott Horton is the editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio, director of The Libertarian Institute, and host of the Scott Horton Show podcast from ScottHorton.org. He has conducted more than 5,600 interviews since 2003. He is the author of Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nu...
Battle of the Atlantic: Sailing in Convoys through 'No Man's Land'
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - November 12, 2023 07:00 - 1 hourKen Benbow Served in the 7th Escort Group in the Atlantic convoys. With no torpedoes, just guns and depth charges to protect Allied merchant ships from U-Boats, they sailed back and forth through ‘No Man’s Land’, 1,500 miles of ocean with no air cover, being “attacked every hour by the Germans”....
The Battle of the Atlantic: Hurricanes Launched by Catapults and Rockets
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - November 11, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutesCatapult-Armed Merchant “CAM” ship pilots flew highly secretive one-way missions. David Wright was one of only a handful and their stories are little known. Using rockets and catapults mounted on merchant ships, Hurricane fighter planes were launched to shoot down German planes. With no flight ...
Battle of the Atlantic: The Worst Journey in the World
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - November 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hourAtlantic and Arctic Convoy Veteran, Ron Syson, gives us a gritty account of life as a Merchant Seaman. Very early on, he sailed to Iceland, Greenland and New York, and was alongside when the Normandy caught fire and capsized. He was only 15. As well as transporting vital supplies across the At...
The Battle of the Atlantic: The U-Boat Peril
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - November 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hourWinston Churchill once wrote, “... the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril”. If The Allies had lost, Britain would have been starved into surrender. 99-year-old John Roberts gives us a fantastic insight into The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest runn...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 215: Alana Stott MBE
Veteran State Of Mind Network - August 16, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsAlana Stott is an author, consultant, speaker, producer, CEO and philanthropist supporting vulnerable women and children, veterans, and anti-Human Trafficking. Socials: @AlanaStott For Alana's books and more information: https://alanastott.com/ Geraint's latest book, co-authored with Levison W...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 214: Grant Bayliss
Veteran State Of Mind Network - August 07, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsGrant is a writer, filmmaker, and video editor who served in Iraq and Afghanistan on the Brigade Reconnaissance Force (BRF). His published novels include Witchcraft 47 and Caliphate: Man Made Hell. Grant's Instagram: @myturntoevil Grant's Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grant-Bayliss/e/B016XY...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 213: with Steven Pressfield
Veteran State Of Mind Network - July 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsSteven Pressfield is best-selling author, screenwriter, and United States Marine Corps veteran. His latest book, Govt Cheese, is available now. You can order signed copies of Govt Cheese here: https://store.stevenpressfield.com/product/govt-cheese-signed-copy/ Unsigned copies of Steve's books...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 212: Rants & Bants 41
Veteran State Of Mind Network - June 22, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsGez and Joe get together to put the world to rights and talk bollocks. On today's episode: changing titles in the army to make them more 'inclusive', Pride Month, Alan Turing, Self-Censoring, Joe getting arrested in Egypt, and a special surprise for Joe. We can't do Rants & Bants without your ...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 211: Ukraine, Arms Companies and Pride, an inspirational achievement
Veteran State Of Mind Network - June 20, 2023 04:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsJoe's bike was sabotaged by Tony Blair and he couldn't make the recording, so today Gez is riding solo. On the agenda: countering bad takes on Ukraine, and how arms manufactures are using Pride month to whitewash their actions. Gez & Joe will be reunited for a proper Rants & Bants on Thursday. ...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 210: The Last Overland, with Alex Bescoby
Veteran State Of Mind Network - May 17, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsAlex Bescoby is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, author and presenter with a love of history, travel and storytelling. In 2016 Alex co-founded independent production company Grammar Productions, to make innovative documentaries that delve deeper into history and how it affects the lives...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 209: Lauren Ungeldi
Veteran State Of Mind Network - April 27, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsLauren Ungeldi is a bestselling author, speaker, CEO of IKAR Global, and human rights advocate. Lauren has collaboratively written eight books which have been featured on a variety of prominent media outlets and topped numerous bestseller charts. She works with well-known politicians, thought le...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 208: with Nate Boyer
Veteran State Of Mind Network - April 12, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsNate Boyer is a United States Army Green Beret, football player, actor, director, and writer. After serving six years and multiple tours for the Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Boyer played college football as a walk-on at the University of Texas despite never having played a down of organize...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 207: Rants & Bants 40
Veteran State Of Mind Network - April 05, 2023 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsGez and Joe get together to talk bollocks and put the world to rights. This episode will be available for everyone for one week from the date of publication. (All previous Rants & Bants episodes will be made available to patreons soon). We can't do Rants & Bants without your help. You can becom...
Veteran State Of Mind Episode 206: Marty Skovlund Jr
Veteran State Of Mind Network - March 27, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsFormer US Army Ranger Marty Skovlund Jr returns to the podcast. As a journalist, Marty has covered the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota, embedded with American special operation forces in Afghanistan, and has broke stories about the first females to make it through infantry training and Ra...
Op Telic: And Then The Nightmare Began
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - March 27, 2023 03:00 - 1 hourPaula’s story is about the loss of her husband, Paul Harding, who Served in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Green Jackets. He joined-up at 18 and was killed in action aged 47, in Basra 2007. We hear about being under attack, fatality and bereavement. If you feel that you might be sensitive to th...
Op Telic: The First Casualties
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - March 26, 2023 04:00 - 47 minutesTip Cullen, former Royal Marines Commando tells us about losing 8 of his friends in the very first operation of Op Telic 1. He’s telling this story “...to keep their memory alive” and “...for the families that had to deal with the consequences…” also for “...people to empathise with their sacri...
Op Telic: The Real Sinister Element Reared its Head
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - March 25, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourKirk Bowett Served in The Cheshire Regiment and his deployment to the Middle East began during Op Telic 4, 2004. We hear about his personal experiences of the realities of war, which includes details of injury and loss of limb. If you feel that you might find this challenging, you may prefer no...
Op Telic: From 'Ops Junky' to 'Combat Intelligence'
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - March 24, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourPiers Stacey, aged 17, joined The Corps, “…six days after the Twin Towers were hit…” Joining 42 Commando late 2002, “...we all went into pre-deployment training for the build-up..it was pretty intense, pretty rapid for a fresh faced 18 year old…” In Kuwait, “...we landed in the desert…nothing ...
Op Telic: The Heat Smacked You In The Face
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - March 23, 2023 04:00 - 1 hourNeville Johnson left South Africa and joined the British Army in 2003. After basic training, he joined the 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers on a cease-fire tour in Belfast, “Those first couple of weeks were a big eye opener for me, definitely paved the way for future operations…” Nev...
Op Telic: You Don't Know How Good Your Unit Is Until You Go To War
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - March 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hourWe meet Sarah Davis, Army Air Corps Ground Crew, one of the pioneering women deployed to the frontline during Op Telic 1. Having joined-up in 1999, a time when the Armed Forces was going through changes - evolving in terms of equality and a time that would mark the start of several years of mil...
Op Telic: Flying at 100 Feet, 120 Miles an Hour Across the Desert
Land, Sea & Air - Stories from the Armed Forces - March 21, 2023 09:00 - 1 hourThis is Pat Patterson’s story. A Royal Marine Aircrewman with 845 Naval Air Squadron flying Sea King helicopters aka ‘Junglies’, and his wife also served during the war. Having looked back through his helicopter logbook, he shares with us his experiences of Op Telic 1, as well as his subsequent...
Related British army Topics
- Veterans 2
- Military 2
- Mental health 2