This is a great interview with someone who is a leading force in the financial blog world and has been a guest speaker at Blog World Expo for three years now. Even after being there three years, this was his first introduction to milblogging and his first time attending the milblog panels. Zac and I talked a lot about how bloggers and milbloggers could help educate each other.
The video below is an interview that was conducted on the 2009 Blog World Expo show floor with the guys from the famous Chad Vadar Internet video series (http://www.blamesociety.net/chadvader/index.php). It may be somewhat hard to hear Troy at first, but the audio gets better. As you will hear, Chad’s voice is very clear. These guys are hilarious so be sure to check out their website and watch some of their videos.
The 545 Project has released a powerfully blunt video aimed at the administration and others in our government whose indecisiveness is putting our troops at risk. This is absolutely amazing!
If you’d like to check out more information about the group, click HERE.
I found these great videos of our Navy SEALs in action from Great Americans. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.
Whether on deployment or participating in ultra marathons, Navy SEAL David Goggins defines hard work and dedication. David Goggins races to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which pays the college tuition for children of special-operations personnel killed in the line of duty. Learn more about the inspiring life of Goggins, as well as other Navy Athletes who competed in the 2008 Ford Ironman at navyathletes.com. Submitted by: SquidShark Three Keywords: US Navy Seal David Goggins athlete inspiring ironman marathon Special Operations Warrior Foundation.
The most intense week of BUD/s Training is detailed in this, the third of four videos providing a look inside the life and preparation to become a Navy SEAL. http://www.navy.com/seals
Navy Seals in Afghanistan 8:53 Shows that war in Afghanistan goes on…It doesn’t have a deadline for ending. They talk about Iraq a lot , but they’ve (the press) forgotten about Afghanistan.
Major Mary Constantino talks about the Army’s presence at the 2009 BlogWorld & New Media Expo and tells us about U.S. Army Accessions Command’s signature Soldier blog, Army Strong Stories.
The DOD is trying to proactively inform troops to be responsible with social media. As I’ve found out firsthand, with all the people that our words and images are available to, someone is bound to get offended because they aren’t grown up enough to deal with it.
A while back we had artist Phil Taylor on You Served Radio. Phil uses his awesome talents to create highly-valued sketches of fallen soldiers to give to their families. On Sept. 11th, he did the presentation of SSG Christian Engeldrum’s print to the family of SSG Engeldrum about the USS Intrepid in NYC. Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band was there also.
Don Mamone photography has put together a nice video of still pictures taken that night. Please take a few moments to check it out at http://donmamonephotography.com/slideshows/afsp-nyc/
If you missed last night’s 1 year anniversary special show of You Served Radio then you really missed out. Lucky for you that you can still catch it by going to www.blogtalkradio.com/youserved or via a podcast on iTunes. We had a mis-communication with Mac Eric Egland and missed him, but we have already worked up a re-schedule date. However we had SFC Mac who is in pretty bad health right now and really fighting with the VA to get that fixed. We also had author Gary Winkler on the show, who wrote the only authorized biography of PFC Lynndie England and his discussion with CJ was very intriguing.
However I think the highlight of the show was the last 45 minutes when we had Country recording-artist superstar Mark Wills on the show. We talked with Mark about how he started out in music, his dad’s service in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division, the USA Cares charity that he is a spokesperson for, shooting guns, and all sorts of other great things. Mark is as down to earth as your next-door neighbor. He is really a great guy. He was so great that he also did a pledge of allegiance for us near the end of the interview that we will use in the rotation of different pledges that we play at the start of every show. To demonstrate how down to earth and what a good person he is, we sort of had a “after the show” show (sorry Fox-n-Friends for borrowing your term). Mark called me five minutes after the show ended and he, I, CJ, and Marcus talked amongst ourselves for just shy of 30 more minutes. He has invited the three of us to Georgia to go shooting with him and we talked to him about some other great organizations that he can get involved with, our families (to include his), where we grew up, etc. I mean after five minutes you forgot you were talking to a guy that has released a dozen albums, and really felt like you were talking to your hunting or army buddy. I have a feeling that not only will we see more of Mark on the country music airwaves, but we will also see him again on You Served.
One thing that Mark told us about was the fun he had making his latest music video, “Crazy White Boy”. As he told us, all he did was get some friends together, head out to the farm and do some shooting. That has probably got to be the cheapest video to make in production costs, if you ask me. I mean his .50 cal bullets were probably the costliest thing in the video. Anyway, in honor of our one year anniversary guest and how kind he was to talk with us for so long not only on the show, but after the show I would like to give you a chance to watch Crazy White Boy here on the You Served Blog. Oh, in case your asking yourself, what does this have to do with the military? Uhhh, it has guns in it, big ones.
As a registered member of Great Americans, I get emails from time to time highlighting some of their best videos. This video was recently waiting for me in my inbox. Great Americans founder, Dr. Matt Daniels, had this to say as an introduction:
Greatness of character is inseparable from adversity. Many of the stories on Great Americans reflect this enduring truth. One of those is the story of Marine Corporal Aaron Mankin and his wife Diana.
Corporal Mankin was badly burned from an IED attack during an operation to stop insurgents flowing into Iraq form Syria. His vehicle was blown over 10 feet into the air. Afterwards, Mankin recalls, “I opened my eyes and I realized I was on fire”.
Mankin was so badly burned that it was six weeks before he could even bear to look at himself in a mirror. But the turning point came when his sweetheart Diana accepted his marriage proposal from his hospital bed. “At that moment, I realized that I was still the same man inside,” he recalls.That realization – and Diana’s consistent love for him — sustained him through 30 reconstructive surgeries.
Aaron and Diana Mankin are now the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl. Of his injuries, Mankin says they help him appreciate what he has been given. “I work harder at loving my daughter because of my injuries. I want her to see my scars as an advantage”.
We all have a lot to learn from the story of Aaron and Diana Mankin.
Check out this truly inspirational video HERE.
I’m so glad that the producer of this video contacted me. What an awesome thing that this WWII does for his fallen comrades. Like all great videos, I uploaded this to Great Americans to be included along other, similar videos honoring our armed forces and first responders. I hope you enjoy this one as much as the “1,2,3 Curahee” video I posted at A Soldier’s Perspective.
You Served's Claire talks about the life of a military spouse - the hardships, the joys, and everything in between.
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