You Served Live Blog July 9th, 2009
7:00:49 PM: Come listen to Episode #46- Marine LtCol Mitch “Taco” Bell, Christian… on You Served on air now! http://tobtr.com/s/564249 #BlogTalkRadio
7:02:42 PM: New blog entry: You Served Live Blog July 9th, 2009 http://bit.ly/17UsjS
7:12:18 PM: Marcus recited the pledge of allegiance live tonight
7:13:19 PM: We have Marine LTC “TACO” Bell, author of the blog, http://www.thesandgram.com/ on
7:18:01 PM: LTC Bell is the OIC of the Marine for Live program in the South Central Texas Area
7:19:23 PM: Sorry that was Marine for Life, not live
7:19:57 PM: Marine for Life is a transition and job searching program that the US Marines does for all honorably discharged Marines
7:22:12 PM: Southwest Airlines is a huge employer of military and especially Marine For Life candidates
7:23:53 PM: Marines have to register on the Marine 4 Life website and through that site Marines can look for employment
7:35:48 PM: LTC Bell was in Afghanistan from March – Nov 2008
7:42:22 PM: LTC Bell was a Liason between the US Embassy and Camp Eggers
7:46:51 PM: LTC Bell just gave us an interesting tidbit about the recovered reporter from Pakistan
7:49:22 PM: LTC Bell just asked about Army safety
8:01:36 PM: We are now listening to American Storyteller
8:02:42 PM: Tonight’s American Storyteller is called Four Chaplains
8:05:40 PM: We are welcoming Christian Davenport from the Washington Post
8:06:56 PM: He is the author of ‘As You Were: To War and Back with the Black Hawk Battalion of the Virginia National Guard’ http://bit.ly/pD88Z
8:08:25 PM: CJ & I had a nice rant after LTC Bell about the lack of media coverage of the war in Iraq and how the Govt won’t say anything about winning
8:12:12 PM: Christian’s book has 9 5-star reviews on Amazon.com, http://bit.ly/pD88Z
8:17:02 PM: Christian just pointed out that less than 1% of the country serves in the military
8:23:16 PM: Christian recognizes the unique challenge of the NG serving
8:37:29 PM: Christian is very in touch with the issues going on with re-deploying NG soldiers
8:46:30 PM: RT @skipinc: Blog Talk Radio: Episode #47 – The American Widow Project, SPC David Hutchinson .. http://digg.com/u17hla #military #blog
8:57:58 PM: Christian is off the show now, we now have Dave on from patriotwatch.com
9:03:03 PM: You Served Radio is off the air
