Hanging Up The Boots

Abby Seitz is an active duty Marine and currently serves as an Officer Selection Assistant, recruiting future USMC officer candidates. She is married to Scot Seitz, who has also been on the show. In …

Justin Minger was a Levantine linguist at 1st Radio Battalion with me. He is currently working in logistics management and is moving into a sales position, and in our conversation he detailed growing…

Scot Seitz is an active duty Marine and was my team leader for most of the workup leading up to the 13th MEU deployment. He is currently at The Basic School as he was recently commissioned to 2nd Lie…

Brittaney Barts is a former Marine and the wife of my best friend, Cam Barts (Episode 10, check it out). She is from Virginia, served with MALS 39 at Camp Pendleton, and was medically separated after…

Tracy Wein was a SIGINT operator and linguist from my battalion and did two consecutive deployments to Afghanistan. After the Marine Corps he worked as a chef and is now pursuing a career in IT. In t…

Cameron is my best friend and deployed on the 13th MEU with me. He is a talented programmer, video game aficionado and father. In this episode we discussed his military career, his path toward discov…

Part 2 with Nick Crash, a former Law Enforcement Marine who deployed on the 13th MEU with me. In this episode we talked about the aftermath of the deployment, finding yourself within a relationship a…

Nick Crash is a Marine who deployed on the USS Boxer during the 13th MEU. He was a field MP attached to the command element, and has had a wild and tumultuous life before, during, and after his servi…

Cooper Westerman deployed with me and was a talented, versatile Marine and SIGINT operator. He had an unusual and difficult route through our battalion, and has now turned his creative passion from m…

Phil Rios is one of my best friends and has been since we attended DLI together. He is currently studying jazz trombone at the Melbourne Conservatory of Music in Australia. We talked about coffee, th…

This is the second half of my interview with Brandon, where we go over the deployment and everything that he's been up to after the Marine Corps. We discuss ocean trash, careers, introspection and th…

Brandon Kell was a member of my deployment's Radio Recon Team. He's currently a creative writer and an aspiring comic in the Tampa area. In this episode, Brandon tells about his strange and winding p…

Micah Johnsrud deployed with Kyle and I and is a single-mindedly disciplined person. He was part of the Radio Reconnaissance Team on our detachment and now leads a pool-based fitness and mentorship p…

Kyle Restemayer, "Rusty", is a good friend of mine and a former Marine. We deployed together, which we get into a bit in our interview. We also talked about community, fitness, and Rusty's new career…

This episode is just me and my story. A little of how I got into the military, a little of what I did while I was in, and a little more about what it was like getting out. What I felt, what I did and…