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Welcome to the Veterans Breakfast Club! Our mission is to create communities of listening around veterans and their stories to connect, educate, heal, and inspire. Our two weekly pre-recorded programs are VBC Live and Greatest Generation Live. From the battlefields of World War II to the front lines of today’s active duty service, this podcast captures the voices, memories, and hard-earned wisdom of those who served. Each episode features powerful, firsthand stories from veterans across generations, revealing moments of courage, sacrifice, humor, and humanity. Listeners will hear untold experiences, lessons learned, and reflections that connect past and present military life. Whether honoring legacy or understanding modern service, this podcast bridges generations through authentic storytelling, preserving history while giving voice to those who continue to serve and protect around the world today and for generations to come forward.
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Nov 11, 2024
Nov 11, 2024
1 hr 21 min
VBC Scuttlebutt Open Conversation is a friendly, interactive gathering of veterans, friends of veterans, and history nerds where we discuss whatever aspects of military service, past or present, or the veterans community that are on our minds.
Join us to swap stories, good and bad, at home and overseas, old and new.
We’ve asked Lt. Colonel John J. McBrearty–“Colonel Mack”–to join us to talk about his 32 years Army and Marine Corps service, as well as his voluminous writing about American history, military experience, and other topics.
We’ve also invited Vietnam Navy veterans John Denk and Tracy Garner to come on and talk about the Navy side of Linebacker II, the last major US operation of the Vietnam War in December 1972.
Denk was aboard the USS Floyd B Parks (DD-884) during the operation and saw USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) get hit by NVA counter-battery rounds on December 19, 1972. The last three Navy blue water sailors killed in Vietnam were aboard: the Donald Dix, Robert Dow, and Gary Boyce.
Damage aboard on the Goldsborough, December 19, 1972
We’ll also talk about whatever topics or questions you’d like to bring up!
We’re grateful to UPMC for Life and Tobacco Free Adagio Health for sponsoring this event!
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