ep 11: Bringing Out The Dead

What happens to the bodies after a battle? This is an aspect of military life that often goes unnoticed because we're more focused on the living. Still, we can't just ignore those killed on the battlefield. And thanks to the Grave Registration Service (what is now Mortuary Affairs), they're not forgotten. These professionals ensure those…
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ep 10: Haunted Military

Halloween is fast approaching and what better topic for this month's podcast than The Top 10 Most Haunted Military Sites? Our military serves to project power around the globe and the men and women who serve are often thrust into dangerous and violent situations. Needless to say, the stress endured by these soldiers, sailors, airmen,…
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ep 9: Pits: The Last Full Measure

Everyday folks probably aren't too familiar with Bill "Pits" Pitsenbarger, but now, tens of listeners of this podcast will know him and the heroic act that earned him the Air Force Cross and eventually, after a push from some old Viet Nam vets, the Medal of Honor. And for those who don't listen to our…
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ep 8: Recovering the Kee Bird

In 1947, a US Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress, dubbed the Kee Bird, crash-landed on a frozen lake in Northern Greenland. The crew was rescued, but the Air Force abandoned the aircraft and struck it from its inventory. And there it remained, untouched, for forty-seven years until a small team of aircraft recovery specialists attempted…
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ep 7: Apollo 11 at T+50-Years

The Digression Podcast Guys were 6 and 2 when Neil Armstrong stepped down from the ladder of the Lunar Module, “Eagle”, onto the surface of the moon. In fact, it’s very likely, they were asleep at the very moment the United States won the space race. In retrospect, that really sucks, but what the hell,…
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ep 6: Darwin Awards

In this podcast, we share some personal stories and lessons learned from the Darwin Award-worthy antics we observed throughout our military careers. Things like, benzocaine burns your eye; never park in front of a loaded F-16; jet intakes suck…A LOT; the GEICO squirrels are REAL; what goes up must come down; and evidently, there’s a…
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ep 4: I AM THE IG!

In this podcast, Jody and Chris talk about their experiences with the Air Force Inspector General. In sharing their IG insights, they find an F-4 in the ceiling, look for the “War Wagon”, learn why the amnesty box is never a good idea, dig into jet skies on the flight line, explore when an ambulance…
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ep 3: The Maco Light and Other Ghost Stories

A hundred years and a thousand storytellers have blurred the legend of the Maco Light and we’re not going to make it any clearer. Joe Baldwin was a brakeman and was traveling in the caboose of an Atlantic Coast Line train through the little town of Maco, North Carolina, when all of a sudden it…
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ep 2: UFOs Over Rendlesham Forest

On the night of Christmas day, December 25, 1980, and into the early morning hours of December 26th, there were massive reports of UFO activity in the Rendlesham Forest area in the southeast of England. The forest is situated between…
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The Digression Podcast Guys are a couple of US Air Force Vets who like to drink Scotch and tell "war stories". Their storytelling is humorous, irreverent, and as Patton would say, colored with the "language of the barracks". Their discussions cover interesting or unusual topics related to military history and folklore, but you don't have…
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