War Stories with Preston and Sayre

JD Huitt of the YouTube channel The History Underground joins us today. JD is a historian who has spent much of his personal time travelling to and documenting historical locations to provide the view...

Preston just completed his 2 weeks of Army Reserve Annual Training at Ft. McCoy, WI where he helped facilitate a reserve brigade's readiness training at the operational level.  He and Sayre discu...

In this episode, we are joined by Steve Coll. Coll is a New Yorker staff writer and reports on issues of politics, intelligence, and national security in the United States and abroad. He has written a...

In this episode we are joined by Justin Roberts. Justin is a documentarian and former Army chaplain who served in Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division. Justin's documentary "No Greater Love" d...

Today we are joined with Jim Horacek. Jim is a former CIA counterterrorism manager and analyst. Initially joining the CIA as a Soviet-focused political analyst, after the September 11th, 2001 att...

Today, Preston and Sayre are joined with Dave Holland. Dave is a former U.S. Marine who has lived and worked for nearly 3 years on site at Guadalcanal and operates the YouTube page,  Guadalcanal ...

Today Sayre and Preston are joined by Leigh Freeman.  Leigh served with C/2-506th IN, part of the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War. Leigh talks about his experie...

Just a few months into the First World War, something beautiful happened.  Amidst the chaos, death and destruction, soldiers from opposing sides made time to celebrate Christmas.  With no fo...

Today we talk about the ninth episode of Band of Brothers (Why We Fight).  We've entered the point in the series where the combat dies down in favor of some deeper topics around the overall war. ...

Pulling in a few old friends today to talk about a topic that's been a major news item recently; getting former interpreters out of Afghanistan.  John Wagner, Conor McNamara and I were roommates ...

03JUL1951:  Serving as a pilot in Helicopter Squadron 2 during the Korean War, LTJG John Koelsch got the call that an American pilot was shot down behind enemy lines and needed rescue.  Taki...

01NOV1942: Serving as a machine gun squad leader during the Battle of Guadalcanal, Cpl Anthony Casamento and his men came under heavy fire as they held the line near the Matanikau River.  Moving ...

10JUN1965: CM3 Marvin Shields and Navy Seabee Team 1104 was helping to construct a remote Special Forces base in an area of Vietnam known as Dong Xoai in summer of 1965.  On June 10th, while the ...

16MAR1966: Serving as a medic to a recon platoon in Vietnam, Spec/4 Al Rascon and his men took off to reinforce a sister unit under attack.  On their way, they were ambushed by a numerically supe...

22OCT2015:  SFC Thomas Payne and his fellow warriors of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (Delta Force), were deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve when they were ta...

26MAY2008: With his unit tasked with the kill or capture of a high value target, SSG Leroy Petry and his men exited the aircraft and almost immediately came under fire.  Quickly neutralizing one ...

22APR2008: As one Marine unit arrived, and the other prepared to leave Iraq, members of the two units began working alongside each other for the hand off.  As a part of that task, LCpl Jordan Haerter ...

29APR2007: Serving as an advisor to the newly formed Iraqi Army, 1stLt Travis Manion set out on patrol into the ever volatile city of Fallujah, Iraq.  Shortly into the mission, an enemy sniper op...

31OCT1972:  Launching from sea in a rubber boat, Navy SEAL Petty Officer Michael Thornton was leading a small team of one other US and three Vietnamese SEALS on a dangerous reconnaissance mission...

31JUL1943: PVT Rodger Young, serving as an infantryman during the Battle of Munda Point in the New Georgia Campaign, was on a patrol when his platoon came under intense from an enemy machine gun empla...

02-03DEC1944:  PVT Pedro Cano was fighting with the 4th Infantry Division when they found themselves leading an assault against German forces in the Hurtgen Forest.  Before long, his unit wa...