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Why Failing to Help Our Afghan Interpreters Would Be a Disaster
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - June 24, 2021 14:28 - 30 minutesThey served beside U.S. troops and wore the very same uniform. But now 18,000 Afghan interpreters fear for their lives as the American government completes a military withdrawal from the country. How we treat our closest allies tells a story about who we are as Americans: the meaning of "no man ...
4 Years After the Marines United Scandal, What Has the Military Learned?
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - June 18, 2021 00:21 - 33 minutesIt took a national scandal over a Facebook group called Marines United to force a true reckoning within the Marine Corps about its cultural problems with sexual harassment and misogyny. Four years later, how far has the service -- and the military at large -- come in putting an end to this toxic...
How Many Ships Does the Navy Really Need?
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - May 27, 2021 15:35 - 30 minutesThe U.S. Navy's fleet is one of the most impressive on the planet -- but officials and strategists are desperate for even more ships to accomplish the service's global mission. The future fleet that planners want has up to 500 ships and includes drone ships, corvettes, light carriers and other i...
21: The Untold Story of the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - May 10, 2021 00:28 - 29 minutesIt has been 10 years since May 2, 2011, the night a top-secret SEAL raid took out notorious terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden at his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. You may think you know the story of bin Laden and the ten-year manhunt that ended in his death, but you've probably se...
20: The Wildest Technologies Changing How the Military Fights
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - April 20, 2021 15:03 - 44 minutesWarfighting has come a long way from machine guns mounted on the back of horse-drawn carriages. New technologies can allow militaries to create and replenish weapons and ammunition on the run; train in virtual environments that they can touch, taste and smell; and command hordes of tiny drones t...
19. The Five Biggest Things for Veterans in 2021
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - April 01, 2021 15:56 - 37 minutesMilitary veterans are emerging from the pandemic into a new world in 2021, and a lot has changed -- some things decidedly for the better. On this episode, host Hope Hodge Seck is joined by Air Force veteran Blake Stilwell of Military.com and Marine Corps veteran Jeff Daly of the American Legion'...
18. So What Is a 6th-Generation Fighter Jet?
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - March 08, 2021 19:26 - 27 minutesWhile the U.S. military's fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets are still rolling off the production line and deploying across the globe, work has already begun on a futuristic 6th-generation fighter -- an aircraft that may have increased stealth, drone companions, boosted artificial i...
17. Meet the Man Who Puts Movie Stars Through Boot Camp
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - February 16, 2021 16:01 - 37 minutesDale Dye has been an adviser on many of the generation's most iconic military films and shows -- from Platoon to Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. But he didn't grow up in showbiz. He's a retired Marine who decided that the movies he saw weren't doing right by America's service members, ...
16: What We Got Wrong in Afghanistan
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - January 29, 2021 17:09 - 29 minutesBing West has been called "The Grunt's Homer." After serving as a Marine Corps infantry officer in Vietnam and then going on to be an assistant secretary of defense at the Pentagon, he has devoted his time to long embeds with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, telling their stories and bearing witn...
15: What It's Like to Be a Medal of Honor Recipient (ft. Kyle White)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - January 19, 2021 17:42 - 35 minutesReceiving the Medal of Honor -- the nation’s highest honor recognizing bravery in combat -- means joining an elite fraternity: there are only 69 living recipients, spanning conflicts from World War II to Afghanistan. At 33, Kyle White is one of the youngest. And now, six years after receiving th...
14: Is the US Losing the Fight for Arctic Dominance?
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - January 04, 2021 17:05 - 34 minutesThings are heating up in the Arctic -- literally and figuratively. As ice melts and new sea lanes open, the region is the site of intense new military competition between the world’s largest power players: the U.S., Russia and China. While the U.S. Coast Guard is working hard to protect American...
13. Did 10 Army Bases Get Named for Traitors?
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - November 16, 2020 19:59 - 26 minutesWe’re in the middle of a national reckoning over racism and representation, and it has thrown new attention onto the fact that 10 of the U.S. Army’s bases, including some of the largest ones, are named for generals who fought against the Union in the Civil War -- men who by definition are traito...
12: The Wild Science of Military MRE Meals
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - October 30, 2020 16:20 - 31 minutesIt’s hard to think of a more beloved -- and sometimes hated -- cultural touchstone in the military than meals ready to eat, or MREs. They’ve been around since the C-Rations of World War II and beyond, and have for decades offered a touch of comfort and a taste of home -- albeit a highly engineer...
11. All Your Space Force Questions Answered
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - October 16, 2020 18:29 - 38 minutesIt wasn’t so long ago that the notion of a military Space Force conjured up images of Star Trek and other fictional future worlds. But our own world is changing, and with a lot of work behind the scenes and a very public push from President Donald Trump, U.S. Space Force became the 6th military...
10: Meet the First Mom with a Ranger Tab
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - October 01, 2020 20:22 - 37 minutesAt 37, Lt. Col. Lisa Jaster was not only one of the first women to graduate the Army’s grueling Ranger School, she was also 15 years older than most of the students who went through. Six months after getting a buzz cut and entering a course that had never had a female graduate, Jaster would beco...
9. Why the Military Helps Hollywood Make Movies
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - September 17, 2020 13:42 - 34 minutesEver wondered how big blockbuster movie productions are able to feature real tanks and fighter aircraft -- or, in the case of the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, actors actually launching off an aircraft carrier? Turns out the U.S. military gives many movies a major helping hand, from providing acce...
8. Meet the Real Charlie from 'Top Gun'
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - September 03, 2020 15:37 - 32 minutesSometimes truth is more interesting than fiction. Christine Fox was a defense analyst working at the Navy's legendary fighter school in Miramar, California when a Hollywood producer decided she'd be the perfect inspiration for Tom Cruise's love interest in the 1986 blockbuster "Top Gun." But tha...
7. Super Soldiers Part 2: The Dark Side (Ft. Edward Barrett and Peter Pfaff)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - August 20, 2020 16:00 - 38 minutesIf Episode 6 left you scared about the terrifying Cyborg military future that awaits us, this sequel may offer a small dose of comfort, in that there are thoughtful people thinking through the major problems that this future presents, and how we might solve them. Last episode, we talked about ...
6. The Future of Bioenhanced Super Soldiers, Pt. 1 (Ft. Peter Emanuel and Diane DiEuliis)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - August 06, 2020 19:10 - 40 minutesSteve Rogers was just an ordinary young man who tried to enlist to fight in World War II but was turned away due to health problems. Until, that is, he was approached by a Defense Department scientist who injected him with a special serum that turned him into the perfect specimen of military str...
5. Adding Women to the Military Draft (Ft. Brig. Gen. Joe Heck)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - July 24, 2020 01:10 - 41 minutesIt has been 50 years since the last Americans were drafted, but the nation continues to require men ages 18 to 26 to register with the Selective Service, an insurance policy in case the nation faces and unforeseen security crisis requiring mass mobilization. This spring, a congressionally appoin...
4. Pilotless Black Hawk Takes Flight (Ft. Igor Cherepinsky)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - July 08, 2020 21:40 - 30 minutesAs the military tests out new unmanned aircraft platforms, are pilots soon to go the way of the dodo? On this episode, we talk to Sikorsky Innovations Director Igor Cherepinsky about the future of autonomous aviation, its uses in the military and the status of Sikorsky efforts to develop a pilo...
3. The Politics of the Medal of Honor (ft. Doug Sterner)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - June 15, 2020 18:08 - 38 minutesOn this episode, we talk about military awards for heroism. They've been around for almost as long as the republic itself, dating back to George Washington's Badge of Military Merit, first awarded in 1782. They're granted judiciously and closely policed to retain their value and meaning. The nat...
2. Top Military Myths Debunked (ft. Jeff Schogol)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - June 10, 2020 17:33 - 26 minutesToday we're tackling a beloved piece of military culture: the myths, rumors and legends that get passed down from generation to generation of service members, and sometimes are even taught as history -- whether or not they actually happened. To do that, Military.com managing editor Hope Hodge Se...
1. The Civilian Who Got a Bronze Star from the Army (ft. Joe Galloway)
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - June 10, 2020 16:40 - 32 minutesWelcome to the first episode of Military.com's new podcast, Left of Boom. I'm Hope Hodge Seck, managing editor for news. Every day, our reporting team is out there covering the news affecting the military community. But we felt we wanted a place to go deeper on the topics you care about, and to ...
Coming Soon: Left of Boom
Left of Boom | A Military.com Podcast - May 26, 2020 22:32 - 58 secondsFor two decades, Military.com has reported on the flash points, crises and catalysts that shape U.S. defense policy, and the decisions that affect the lives of men and women in uniform. Now, we’re going deeper. In our new podcast, Left of Boom, we’ll talk to the legends and pathfinders who made ...
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