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LCDR Mike Saraille, USMC, U.S. Navy SEAL, Iraq, Afghanistan
When college wasn't working out, Mike Sarraille decided to become a U.S. Marine when he became friends with a recon Marine and was impressed by his humble confidence. Saraille also...
Frank DeVita, USCG, WWII, Omaha Beach, Okinawa
Frank DeVita joined the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II thinking his job would be to protect the American coast. But his war service would be much different than expected when the...
SSG Jack Moran, U.S. Army, WWII, Fighting and Freezing at the Bulge
Jack Moran joined us nearly two years ago to discuss his extensive combat as an infantryman in Europe during World War II. Today, he returns for another conversation as we hear new...
Pfc. John 'Bill' Kongable, U.S. Army, World War II
John "Bill" Kongable was drafted into the U.S. Army just a couple of days after graduating from high school in 1944. From there it was on to basic training and eventually being tra...
Sgt. Robert Day, USMC, Iraq, Battle of Fallujah
Robert Day joined the U.S. Marine Corps just a few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Soon he was being transformed into a Marine at Parris Island, and, less than three years...
Col. Sean Corrigan, U.S. Army, Iraq, Afghanistan, Desert Storm, Panama
Sean Corrigan was commissioned as a second lieutenant when he graduated from West Point in 1988. Within just a couple of years, he saw action in both Panama and Desert Storm. Soon ...
Cpl Frank Wright, USMC, World War II, Fighting on Iwo Jima
Frank Wright joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942, when he was just 16 years old. Before long, he became one of the famed Marine Raiders. After deploying first to Guadalcanal in th...
Y3C Lee Broussard, U.S. Navy, World War II, Witness to Japanese Surrrender
Lee Brousard enlisted in the Navy with the intention of joining the Naval Air Corps. But as he was traveling to Florida for flight training, the Navy changed those plans and sent h...
Sgt. Mike Ergo, USMC, Iraq, Battle of Fallujah
Mike Ergo originally joined the U.S. Marine Corps to play his saxophone in the Marine Corps band. But a short time after joining the Corps in 2001, Ergo changed his mind and asked ...
Col. Aaron Cunningham, USMC, Iraq, Battle of Fallujah
Aaron Cunningham started thinking seriously about military service after watching Operation Desert Storm unfold in 1991, the year he graduated from high school. He began college wi...
Cpl Kenneth Wells, USMC, World War II, Okinawa
Kenneth Wells was planning to join the U.S. Navy in World War II but the U.S. Marine Corps recruiter at the office told him he was joining the Marines instead. And so he did. His b...
Capt. Vincent 'Bill' Purple, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Vincent "Bill" Purple joined the U.S. Army Air Corps following the Japense attack on Pearl Harbor. Like most young men interested in joining the Air Corps, he wanted to be a fighte...
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