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The Vanguard Wall Podcast 50 Episodes Aug 12, 2026

The Vanguard Wall Podcast is a platform where modern-day warriors—veterans, law enforcement, and those who have faced adversity—share their stories of bravery, discipline, mental health, perseverance, and personal triumph. Each episode aims to build a fortress of strength and resilience, defending the spirit of honor, courage, and brotherhood that binds warriors across time.

Episodes

The Kid Nobody Bet On Who Became a Green Beret Colonel | Max Krupp
The Kid Nobody Bet On Who Became a Green Beret Colonel | Max Krupp Aug 12, 2026 24739 Send us Fan MailColonel (r) Max Krupp will be the first to tell you he doesn’t tell war stories — you have to pull them out of him. Over 28 years he became the first Texas Army National Guardsman in history to earn the Green Beret, wore a Bronze Star with Valor for a single day in Kandahar Province that by rights should have killed him and the Afghan company he was advising, and was on the Army’s
The Marines Said No. He Retired a Command Sergeant Major. | CSM Mac McAlister
The Marines Said No. He Retired a Command Sergeant Major. | CSM Mac McAlister Aug 3, 2026 27912 Send us Fan MailThe Marine Corps turned him down at eighteen. Twenty-four years later, CSM (Ret.) Donald "Mac" McAlister retired at the very top of the enlisted ranks — a Legion of Merit, two Bronze Stars, and a Purple Heart, with five combat tours behind him: two in Iraq, three in Afghanistan.This is one of the most honest conversations we've ever recorded. Mac takes us from a self
Chris McCoy: He Served With Pat Tillman, Then Left War for the Deadliest Job on Earth
Chris McCoy: He Served With Pat Tillman, Then Left War for the Deadliest Job on Earth Jul 16, 2026 24623 Send us Fan MailChris McCoy served in the 75th Ranger Regiment alongside Pat Tillman and speaks plainly to the cover-up of how Tillman died. He recovered bodies inside the Pentagon after 9/11, fought through the high mountains of Afghanistan, then walked off the battlefield and onto a Bering Sea crab boat — one of the deadliest jobs on Earth. He returns to The Vanguard Wall for Part 2: the war sto
Man of War Director William Kaufman on Ukraine, LaMonica Garrett, and Films That Don’t Lie
Man of War Director William Kaufman on Ukraine, LaMonica Garrett, and Films That Don’t Lie Jul 10, 2026 3135 Send us Fan MailDirector William Kaufman brings Man of War to The Vanguard Wall — a grounded military action thriller set on the opening morning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, starring LaMonica Garrett and out now on digital via Well Go USA. LaMonica Garrett (1883, The Lioness, The Terminal List) plays Connor, a burned-out ex-operator at the lowest point of his life when a girl he's spen
Inside Canada's SWAT: An RCMP Tactical Leader & Sergeant Major | Seb Lavoie
Inside Canada's SWAT: An RCMP Tactical Leader & Sergeant Major | Seb Lavoie Jul 2, 2026 24244 Send us Fan MailSeb Lavoie is the most decorated operator most people have never heard of. Over 20 years he went from a French-Canadian kid with no childhood memories to a soldier, a covert air marshal, an ERT tactical operator and team leader, a court-recognized tactical expert, and the Divisional Sergeant Major over 8,200 people — then pride cost him his leg, and faith rebuilt him.Hostage rescue
The Most Dangerous Flying Job in Vietnam | Hugh Mills
The Most Dangerous Flying Job in Vietnam | Hugh Mills Jun 19, 2026 25540 Send us Fan MailHugh Mills flew the OH-6 “Loach” as a low-level aeroscout in Vietnam — statistically the most dangerous flying job of the war. Shot down 16 times, three Silver Stars, four Distinguished Flying Crosses, three Purple Hearts. Author of the classic memoir Low Level Hell. 📖 Low Level Hell: https://a.co/d/0glrcnww CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Introduction — how Greg Coker connected them + “Low Le
Marine to Green Beret to Delta to CIA: The Man Who Hunted bin Laden | Gary Harrington
Marine to Green Beret to Delta to CIA: The Man Who Hunted bin Laden | Gary Harrington Jun 7, 2026 28025 Send us Fan MailAt Tora Bora in December 2001, Gary Harrington sat on one of the closest American observation posts to Osama bin Laden — close enough, he says, to watch the bombs he was calling in streak past the ridge sideways. Then the war handed him to the CIA, and he spent the next decade hunting the same enemy from the inside.Harrington is the rare operator who wore the uniform six different
Air Force PJ: He Was Told to Stand Down. Cole Condiff Was Never Found. | Aaron Love
Air Force PJ: He Was Told to Stand Down. Cole Condiff Was Never Found. | Aaron Love May 22, 2026 29769 Send us Fan MailSenior Master Sergeant Aaron Love — Air Force Pararescueman, 22 years, five combat deployments — is the first PJ ever on The Vanguard Wall. Fewer than 500 people have earned the maroon beret. The pipeline carries a 91% attrition rate — the longest special operations selection pipeline in the DoD.In 2002, Aaron quit on a pool deck at Indoc. He'd made it through Hell Night. He s
From Selling Plasma to 8 Figures: Marine Vet Johnny Raushi's American Comeback
From Selling Plasma to 8 Figures: Marine Vet Johnny Raushi's American Comeback May 8, 2026 25543 Send us Fan MailMarine vet Johnny Raushi joined the Corps at 17 for a free skateboard sticker. Four years later he came home broke, picked up change in a gas station parking lot, and sold his plasma twice a week to fund the first batches of a pomade he was perfecting on his stovetop. That pomade became Johnny Slicks — an 8-figure American manufacturing company employing 30+ people out of a North C
The Last Plane Out of Kabul: Air Mission Commander Reveals What Really Happened | Col(r) Alex Pelbath
The Last Plane Out of Kabul: Air Mission Commander Reveals What Really Happened | Col(r) Alex Pelbath Apr 27, 2026 24311 Send us Fan MailThe last C-17 lifted off Kabul's runway at 11:59 PM on August 30, 2021. The man who gave the order — and made the radio call "Math Safe" that officially ended America's longest war — tells the full story for the first time.Colonel Alex Pelbath (USAF, Ret.) commanded SOUL-2, the only C-17 Special Operations unit in the world, and served as Air Mission Commander f
They Said "We've Been Fine Without You." He Proved Them Wrong. | Dr. Nick Barringer
They Said "We've Been Fine Without You." He Proved Them Wrong. | Dr. Nick Barringer Apr 8, 2026 16280 Send us Fan MailThinking about buying a home or refinancing? Nuwave built a dedicated page specifically for Vanguard Wall listeners so you can connect directly with the team assigned to our audience: https://nuwaveanchor.com/i/thevanguardwallIf this episode brought you value, drop a comment below — we'd love to know what you're implementing.What does it take to fuel the most elite light
MACV-SOG | How One Man Built the Most Dangerous Training Program in Vietnam | Travis Mills
MACV-SOG | How One Man Built the Most Dangerous Training Program in Vietnam | Travis Mills Mar 30, 2026 20747 Send us Fan MailThinking about buying a home or refinancing? Nuwave built a dedicated page specifically for Vanguard Wall listeners so you can connect directly with the team assigned to our audience: https://nuwaveanchor.com/i/thevanguardwallIn August of 1968, Travis W. Mills was shot five times in a single engagement at FOB 4 — the deadliest night in the history of U.S. Army Special Forces. He su

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