Tango Alpha Lima examines deported Marine, women military leaders and beard icicles

Tune in to this week’s episode of The American Legion’s Tango Alpha Lima podcast to learn how Mark Seavey is dealing with his kids returning to school, what has Ashley Gorbulja-Maldonado so fired up and catch Jeff Daly’s weekly knock on Ohio.

The co-hosts engage in a lively conversation covering a wide range of timely and quirky headlines of interest to military veterans and servicemembers. Up first is a discussion of the politics at play in the Department of Defense’s budget related to health care for the troops.

Gorbulja-Maldonado introduces the notable rise in women in combat and the surge in “firsts” for women servicemembers. “The hope is that we get to the point when this is normalized,” she says.

Daly brings up a story of a Marine veteran whose deportation story was featured on Immigration Nation.

And be sure to hear Seavey reminiscing about Thule, Greenland, where he would pick icicles out of his beard while waiting for breakfast and his memories of the First Light Celebration.

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