Entries by Ryan

Fort Snelling’s Last War & Toys for Military Kids

This week, we’ll discover Fort Snelling’s last war with military historian Stephan Osman and, with the holidays quickly approaching, Les Hanson of Toys4Military Kids will join us to talk about how you can help kids in need. This week’s featured veteran in Army Capt. Ryan Curl. Ryan just returned from his first tour in Afghanistan having […]

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Minnesota’s Warrant Officers & Recon Robotics

This week we discover an innovative University of Minnesota invention that’s saving the lives of Soldiers in Afghanistan and police officers here at home and we’ll take a look at Minnesota’s Warrant Officer Corps with the state’s Command Chief Warrant Officer. Guests include: Chief Warrant Officer 5 Peter Panos of the Minnesota National Guard Alan Bignall […]

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Rep. Cravaak & Ukes for Troops

This week we talk with former Navy Captain, now Representative, Chip Cravaak about his service in the military and congress. We also talk with Eric Carranza about his work bringing the joy of music to Minnesota’s veterans’ home. This week’s veteran is former Navy Corpman Bill Lamoreaux. Bill served 8 years as a Navy Corpsman with the Marines […]

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Civil Support Team and MNDot Veteran’s Program

This week the 55th Civil Support Team‘s Air Force Staff Sgt. Josh Joyce told about how this National Guard team uses there significant capabilities to assist local and state agencies that may be overwhelmed by and intentional or unintentional natural or man-made disasters.  We also had a conversation with Alan Duff and Alex Tittle about […]

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Adapt Study and Wild Wings Pheasant Hunt

This week we find out about a study from the University of Minnesota with the help of the Minnesota National Guard and Reserves that studies family resilience and is developing tools to support resilience among military families as they cope with the stress of deployment and reintegration.  We also talked with Mike Polehna and heard out about the upcoming […]

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