Veterans Broadcast Network
The network that brings you - Veterans Radio Hour, Unbroken, and Role Call
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General - David Grange
Host Veterans Radio Hour.
He served with the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War. He was later assigned to Delta Force, commanding a squadron during the invasion of Grenada and was deputy commander during the Gulf War. His last command was of 1st Infantry Division before he retired in 1999.
In December 1999, Grange published a critique of the Army's obsolete way of measuring unit readiness in the Armed Forces Journal. He then led a group of Army officers who wrote a book on improving force structure; Air-Mech-Strike: Asymmetric Maneuver Warfare for the 21st Century. He later served as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of the McCormick Foundation in Chicago.
Host - Role Call
Kenney DeCamp
He was with The US Army Medical Corp and trained as an Orthopedic Specialist. Later he became one of the first Physician Assistant (PA), in the United States. Kenney was the NCOIC of the largest orthopedic clinic in the American Vietnam theater in 1969 during the time that more than 5,385 American war casualties came through the clinic under his command.
In 1969 he was offered the position of Warrant Officer however he chose instead to remain as a Physician Assistant, and which is now part of the history of the birth the American Association of Physicians Assistants program. Kenney specialized in neurosurgery.
Host - Wounded But Not Broken
Patrick Scrogin
On March 1, 2007, during his second deployment, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Scrogin was flying a mission over Kirkuk, Iraq, when the aircraft unexpectedly began hurtling toward the ground at 3,000 feet per minute. He sustained several severe injuries in the crash including the loss of his left leg, nine fractured vertebrae, and a crushed pelvis.
Now medically retired, he has a mission to help others and impressed upon them that the measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
Tribute
Joe Galloway
American newspaper correspondent and columnist.
Since 2013, he has worked as a special consultant for the Vietnam War 50th anniversary Commemoration project run out of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and has also served as consultant to Ken Burns' production of a documentary history of the Vietnam War broadcast in the fall of 2017 by PBS. He is also the former Military Affairs consultant for the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers and was a columnist with McClatchy Newspapers.