
S.O.S. (Stories of Service) - Ordinary people who do extraordinary work
by Theresa Carpenter
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The Army Vindicated Me, But is there closure? | S.O.S. #271
Jun 19, 2026
54m 27s
Duty to Disobey: The Veterans Who Refused and Paid the Price | S.O.S. #270
Jun 5, 2026
1h 10m 49s
Veterans Don’t Need Sympathy. They Need Community. | S.O.S. #269
May 30, 2026
46m 35s
Torched - What really happened with the Palisades Fires with Jonathan Vigliotti
May 13, 2026
1h 03m 03s
Patrick Caserta on The Brandon Act and the Fight That Isn’t Over | S.O.S. #267
May 8, 2026
1h 12m 30s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() The Army Vindicated Me, But is there closure? | S.O.S. #271 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! A C-section goes wrong, the truth stays buried, and a young soldier spends seven years fighting for the words that should have come on day one: we made a mistake, and we’re going to take care of you. We sit down again with Lauren Paladini, whose delivery at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg ended with a severed vessel connected to her right uterine artery, repeated hemorrhaging, emergency civilian surgeries, and a hyste... | 54m 27s | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Duty to Disobey: The Veterans Who Refused and Paid the Price | S.O.S. #270✨ | veteransdisobedience+3 | Scott LaudererJohn Eugene Delarm | Air ForceArmy | — | veteransdisobedience+5 | — | 1h 10m 49s | |
| 5/30/26 | ![]() Veterans Don’t Need Sympathy. They Need Community. | S.O.S. #269✨ | veteranscommunity+4 | Jenna Carlton | The Millennial Veteran | U.S. | veteranscommunity+5 | — | 46m 35s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Torched - What really happened with the Palisades Fires with Jonathan Vigliotti✨ | wildfiresjournalism+4 | Jonathan Vigliotti | CBS NewsTorch | American West | wildfirePalisades Fire+6 | — | 1h 03m 03s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Patrick Caserta on The Brandon Act and the Fight That Isn’t Over | S.O.S. #267✨ | mental healthmilitary service+3 | Patrick Caserta | Brandon ActUS Navy | — | Brandon Actmental health care+5 | — | 1h 12m 30s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() From Combat Cockpit to Congress | Rebecca Bennett - S.O.S. #266✨ | military servicepolitics+3 | Rebecca Bennett | Washington | New Jersey7th district | NavyCongress+5 | — | 49m 26s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Power, Propaganda, and the Consequences of American Empire | S.O.S. #265✨ | American EmpirePatriotism+3 | Michael T. Lester | U.S. Naval AcademyWe Are the Bad Guys | — | patriotismAmerican Empire+5 | — | 1h 02m 10s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Healing ❤️🩹 the hidden wounds | The Restored Heart Collective - S.O.S. #264✨ | military reintegrationmental health+3 | Cathy TurnerJackie Voytak | Restored Heart Collective | — | military homecomingreintegration+3 | — | 42m 59s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() Command in Crisis: Thomas B. Modly | S.O.S. #263✨ | leadershipdecision making+4 | Thomas B. Modly | Department of DefenseNavy | — | leadershipcrisis+5 | — | 1h 10m 19s | |
| 4/10/26 | ![]() Inside the VA: Former Secretary Dr. David Shulkin on Leadership, Politics, and Fighting for Veterans | S.O.S. #262✨ | veterans affairsleadership+3 | Dr. David J. Shulkin | VADepartment of Veterans Affairs | — | veteransleadership+3 | — | 57m 51s | |
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| 4/4/26 | ![]() From Trauma to Power: How an Infantry Officer Rebuilt Her Mind and Body | Riley A. Gruppo S.O.S. #261✨ | women in combatmilitary standards+3 | Riley A. Gruppo | Army | — | women in combatinfantry officer+3 | — | 56m 48s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() From Battlefield to Ballot Box | Dr. Trei McMullen S.O.S. #260✨ | veteranspolitics+3 | Dr. Trei McMullen | U.S. Army7th Special Forces Group | FloridaPensacola | combat veteranentrepreneur+3 | — | 55m 54s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() My Son Said No! | Grieving Army Dad Speaks Out - S.O.S. #259✨ | griefmilitary service+4 | Eddie Peoples | Army | — | grieving fatherArmy veteran+3 | — | 1h 02m 22s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Benefit or Betrayal | Jane Babcock S.O.S. #258✨ | veteransdisability compensation+4 | Jane Babcock | VAArmy+1 | — | veteransdisability+5 | — | 1h 09m 10s | |
| 2/25/26 | ![]() War, Media and a 25 Million Lawsuit | Anti-Hero Broadcast Founder Tyler Hoover S.O.S. #257✨ | free speechcelebrity culture+3 | Tyler Hoover | Anti-Hero BroadcastCounterculture Inc. | Baghdad | Tyler HooverAnti-Hero Broadcast+5 | — | 1h 07m 41s | |
| 2/18/26 | ![]() What If The Real Fight Isn’t Left Vs Right But Us Vs Division | S.O.S. #256✨ | disability evaluationveterans affairs+3 | — | VAFederal Register | — | disability ratingsveterans+5 | — | 12m 21s | |
| 1/30/26 | ![]() VA Malpractice and Finding A Voice | Brian Tally - S.O.S. #255 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! A routine VA visit turned into a life-or-death spiral—and a blueprint for change. Marine Corps Sergeant Brian Talley woke up in 2016 with sudden, ferocious back pain. The VA labeled it a “low back sprain,” refused bloodwork and imaging, and sent him home with escalating opioids. Months later, an outside MRI led to surgery that uncovered the real culprit: a bone-eating staph infection tearing through his spine and organs. He su... | 2h 01m 22s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | ![]() The Day Due Process Died in the Military with Clarence Anderson III | S.O.S. #254 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! A decorated Air Force logistics officer. A collapsing marriage. A system that prized appearances over proof. We sit down with Major Clarence Anderson to trace his path from special operations success to a 42‑month sentence—despite no civilian charges and a later-recorded admission of a $100,000 payment tied to perjury and motive. This isn’t a salacious true-crime detour; it’s a clear look at how political pressure, unlawful co... | 1h 36m 46s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() Military Stories You Are Not Told | Jennifer Barnhill - S.O.S. #253 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! Who decides which military stories get told—and which ones never make it past the draft? We sit down with journalist and Navy spouse Jennifer Barnhill to uncover how narratives about service, sacrifice, and family support are shaped, sanitized, and sometimes silenced. Her new book challenges the usual focus on weapons and missions by centering the lived reality of military families: underemployment, licensure barriers, food in... | 57m 29s | ||||||
| 1/21/26 | ![]() Betrayal of Command | Asad Khan - S.O.S. #252 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! A Marine officer who helped open Pakistan’s gateway to Afghanistan, coordinated CSAR basing, and carried the keys to a shuttered Kabul embassy steps into the studio to talk about combat, command, and the price of telling the truth. We walk through the early days after 9/11—commercial flights into Rawalpindi with a rucksack full of radios, late-night negotiations for overflight and basing, and the scramble to build humane, lawf... | 1h 27m 04s | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Guns and Mental Heath | Walk the Talk America - S.O.S. #251 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! The national fight about guns gets loud, tribal, and stuck—and meanwhile, the leading cause of firearm death in America happens quietly every day. We sit down with industry veteran and Walk The Talk America founder Michael Sodini to explore a different path: building trust between gun owners and clinicians, reducing stigma, and putting practical tools in people’s hands before crisis hits. No litmus tests. No lectures. Just pro... | 1h 02m 18s | ||||||
| 1/15/26 | ![]() DEI Controversy Meets Pentagon Whistleblowing Rick Lamberth | S.O.S. #250 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! A simple question opens a complicated story: what happens when you say no to a powerful directive that feels wrong? Rick joins us with 43 years of experience spanning infantry, war-zone logistics, and Pentagon program oversight to recount how refusing an alleged extortion scheme set off a cascade of retaliation, reassignment, and legal battles. The stakes are not just personal—this is about how procurement ethics, whistleblowe... | 1h 07m 09s | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() The Military Failed my Son | Heather Baker - S.O.S. #249 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! A young paratrooper with a near-perfect PT score, big plans and a bigger heart grew dangerously ill at Fort Bragg. He was sent back to the barracks, where missed formations, unanswered calls and a holiday weekend combined into six silent days. By the time anyone knocked, it was too late. His mother, Heather Baker, walks us through the painful timeline—ER turnaways, worsening vitals, redacted pages, and a claims process twisted... | 1h 15m 01s | ||||||
| 12/31/25 | ![]() He Advised the Pentagon and They ignored him with Donald Vandergriff | S.O.S. #248 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! What if the way we select and promote military leaders is wired to produce the very failures we say we want to avoid? That’s the challenge we take on with Don Vandergriff, a retired Marine and Army officer, defense analyst, and one of the most persistent voices for personnel reform in the U.S. military. Don pulls back the curtain on a system shaped by industrial-age thinking—zero-defects culture, inflated evaluations, and top-... | 1h 05m 42s | ||||||
| 12/24/25 | ![]() The Cost of False Allegations with Marine Col. (ret) Dan Wilson | S.O.S. #247 | Let us know what you think of the show and what we can do better! The story opens at a dinner party and ends with a near-unheard-of legal result: dismissal with prejudice. In between is retired Colonel Dan Wilson’s toughest battle—how a decorated Marine became the target of a false allegation, why the case grew despite exculpatory DNA, and what happens when command climate, politics, and process collide. We trace Dan’s life from childhood in Africa through four decades of Marine ... | 1h 25m 59s | ||||||
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