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The podcast series covers the wide range of operations, from peacekeeping to low, mid, and high-intensity conflict that our Army has been a part of from Vietnam through the present day. Each episode features the stories of military veterans told from their perspectives. Their first-hand accounts provide unique insights into key moments of history, presenting the challenges faced, solutions implemented, and lessons learned.
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Monday Dec 06, 2021
Monday Dec 06, 2021
Join us for an interview with Retired Brigadier General Stan Cherrie, whose service awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, Air Medal with V device, Air Medal numeral 8, and the Legion of Merit.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Our featured guest, Col. William Eckhardt, U.S. Army (Retired), practiced law for 30 years with the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Over the course of his long career, providing legal services, litigated in federal and military courts, taught at the University of California at Berkeley, taught at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and taught and held the Dwight David Eisenhower Chair of National Security at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He was awarded The Federal Younger Lawyer Award for his work in the My Lai court-martial cases and he is the recipient of numerous military awards. He is also an author and editor of several significant publications including editing “Law for the Joint Warfighter.”
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Our second episode of the Bull Simons Ops Center is an interview with Terry Buckler the youngest member of the Son Tay Raid into North Vietnam to rescue POWs in November 1970. Terry is the author of Who Will Go: Into the Son Tay POW Camp with a foreword by Colonel Roger Donlon, the first Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War. In this episode, Terry discusses the preparation for the raid and its execution.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Our first episode of the Bull Simons Ops Center is an interview with retired Colonel Bob Ulin, founder and Director of the Simons Center for Ethical Leadership and Interagency Cooperation. Bob is a Vietnam veteran, a successful business executive, and Founding CEO of the Command and General Staff College Foundation in Fort Leavenworth, KS. In 2009, Bob secured a grant from the late H. Ross Perot, Senior to establish the Simons Center to support research and publication of matters pertaining to interagency cooperation. Bob discusses the founding of the Simons Center, its accomplishments, and its recent reorganization.