Host Randy Miller discusses topics of interest to veterans and interviews guests on a wide variety of topics.
In this segment, we welcome the Aerial Coordinator and Stunt Pilot for the smash hit Top Gun: Maverick, an ATP-certified pilot who worked with Tom Cruise to put together a curriculum for an acting boot camp for the cast of this film. Randy talks with Kevin about some of the behind-the-scenes work to put the practical effects into place for Top Gun: Maverick and a little bit about his own experience as a stunt pilot in Hollywood.
We welcome a unique veterans service organization to the program and the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Irreverent Warriors, Nate McDonald, to the show. Nate served in the Marine Corps as an intelligence officer and used his own experience to work for this group. Irreverent Warriors seek to link warriors together through therapeutic events across the country. We also work with other veteran organizations who provide services such as job placement, training, housing, service dogs and more. Their use of humor and dark comedy is bringing veterans together using that humor and camaraderie to improve their mental health and to prevent veteran suicide.
We welcome US Marine Corps Staff Sergeant James Hollon (Ret.) to the program to discuss both his military service in the Corps, and how his own injuries he sustained during five combat deployments affected his daily life and how he decided to do something to not only help himself navigate his own transition process to civilian life, but how that could go to helping others in the same predicament with the founding of his non-profit, Set Apart Farms.
We welcome a retired Green Beret, Tim Kennedy, to the show to talk about his decision to join the military on September 12th, 2001, and how that decision has led him on the path to where he is today. Make sure to check out the new book “Scars and Stripes: An unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself” by Tim Kennedy for the story of a great American.
“A Few Bad Men: The True Story of U.S. Marines Ambushed in Afghanistan and Betrayed by America” is the incredible true story of an elite team of U.S. Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit—and their leader who fought for the redemption of his men. We welcome the author of this book, and a figure central to the story, Major Fred Galvin, to the show to talk about his experience not only as a soldier but to defend and clear his and his men’s name in the longest Marine Corps trial in its history.
We welcome the creator of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Somebody Feed Phil” the #1 Food and Travel program on Netflix, Phil Rosenthal to the show. Randy and Phil talk about his world travels and how he explores other people’s cultures through his stomach on his show, now entering its 5th season on Netflix.
The National Defense is happy to welcome once again, as we do every year this time of year, Tony Award-Winning Actor Joe Mantegna to talk about his cohosting work with Gary Sinise for the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington D.C.. The event is back live this year after a two-year dance of accommodating pandemic measures, and Joe talks with Randy about what viewers tuning in on their local PBS station can expect from him and Gary Sinise.
We again welcome back Michael Reagan to the show to talk about the life of both his presidential father and Oscar-winning mother as well as continuing work with the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Michael has written many books on his family and leadership, powerboat racing, and much more in this wide ranging interview.
We welcome one of the most respected voices in both domestic and international political affairs, Navy veteran David Gergen, to the program. Randy and David talk about his time serving in the Navy and how it influenced his professional career as a White House advisor for four U.S. Presidents from both parties, as well as the content of his new book on leadership “Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made.”
We welcome retired Lieutenant General of the U.S. Army, Larry Jordan, to the program. Lt. General Jordan will be giving a speech as part of the Memorial Day remembrances as well as to help open up “Black Citizenship in the Face of Jim Crow” a traveling exhibit at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, MO. You can livestream the event at theworldwar.org/live
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