About the show
Join us for vibrant camaraderie, playful joking and hot takes on current events, interesting trends and quirky stories of interest to the military and veteran community.
The weekly podcast is produced by The American Legion.
For more stories and videos please visit www.legion.org/tangoalphalima
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Episodes
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Episode 256: Tango Alpha Lima: Identifying veteran transition gaps with SVA VP of Research Abby Kinch
March 25th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 15 mins
academic, academy award, actor, american legion, belonging, community, connection, data, distinguished service cross, diverse experiences, food insecurity, gene hackman, gi bill, government shutdown, gwot, hero, isolation, linguist, marines, medal of honor, military, military-connected, moh, oscar, post-9/11, research, service, social transition wealth index, student veterans, survey, transition, va, valor, veteran, wellness, wwi
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 255: Tango Alpha Lima: Finding your tribe with Gen. Paul Funk II and Col. Adam Rocke
March 18th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 13 mins
6888th, airborne, american legion, be the one, big red 1, camaraderie, career, community, deep transcranial magnetic stimulation, dod skillbridge, education, eliza barker johnson, funk’s fundamentals, gwot, hiring our heroes, homelessness, individualized treatment, jrotc, katie’s way, mental health, military, military family, military mom, military spouse, organizational structure, post-9/11, pride, ptsd, pufl, ranger, rosie the riveter day, service, service dog, soldier for life, tms, transition, tribe, veteran, warrior games, we can do it, women veterans, women’s history month, workforce development, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 254: Tango Alpha Lima: How sleep impacts wellness and readiness with Dr. Tina Burke
March 11th, 2025 | Season 6 | 59 mins 35 secs
american legion, blue light, breathwork, burning man, circadian rhythm, community, debunking, fact-checking, gwot, insomnia, jet lag, laughter, meditation, melatonin, memorial, military, monument, night mode, post-9/11, ptsd, red cross, service, sleep drive, sleep hygiene, sleep mode, sleep science, tbi, veteran, visualization, walter reed, wwi
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 253: Tango Alpha Lima: Transitioning tips for service members with Ret. Col. Sam Whitehurst
March 4th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 12 mins
american legion, aviation, career, citizenship through service, community, exercise, fallujah, gi bill, gwot, helicopter pilot, homelessness, housing insecurity, illustrators, immigration, leadership, medevac pilot, mental health, mentorship, military, military career, military spouse, military transition, naturalization, navy corpsman, ocs, post-9/11, protege, pt, red dye #3, service, silver star, support system, test pilot, transition, veteran, veteran authors, wellness, women veterans, women’s history month
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 252: Tango Alpha Lima: Guide to a healthy heart for veterans with Dr. Columbus Batiste
February 25th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 24 mins
addiction, american legion, automobiles, back to the future, cardiology, caregivers, cars, comfort food, community, ford fiesta, ford mustang, forgiveness, gwot, haiku, healthy heart, heart disease, high blood pressure, holistic care, isolation, k-car, korean war, la vamc, lee iacoca, lifestyle medicine, meditation, mentorship, military, military studies, minivan, movement, mythbusters, nicotine, nutrition, poetry, post-9/11, seebees, service, sleep, small steps, smoking, spiritual, spitter, stress, titanic, va cardiac rehab, veteran, volunteer, zyn
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 251: Tango Alpha Lima: What veterans should know about moving abroad with John Davis
February 18th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 5 mins
101st airborne, affirmation, american legion, bi-partisan, catalyst for change, community, compromise, congress, discipline, fodpal, foreign medical program, gwot, living abroad, marine corps, medical experiment, mental health, mexico, military, oath act, overseas, photography, photoshop, post-9/11, puerto vallarta, respect, retreat, service, thailand, therapy, travel, va, values, veteran, veteran stories, women veterans
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 250: Tango Alpha Lima: Who is MandatoryFunDay?
February 11th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 9 mins
american legion, arrested development, comedy, community, dinfos, gwot, influencer, inpatient, mandatory fun day, medal of honor, military, military romance scam, military wives, post-9/11, public affairs, recruiting, service, social media, spanish-american war, va, valentine’s day, veteran, yeet
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 249: Tango Alpha Lima: Kamin Samuel - the Navy's first Black female helicopter pilot
February 4th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 13 mins
african american history month, american legion, arizona bowl, aviation, be the one, black history month, buffalo soldiers, civil rights, coaching, community, coping, gi joe, gin & juice, gwot, helicopter pilot, mail carriers, medal of honor, mental health, military, moh, naval aviator, post-9/11, postal workers, role model, rosa parks, segregation, service, snoop dog, usps, veteran, world war ii, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 248: Tango Alpha Lima: The Honorable Patrick J. Murphy still serving veterans
January 28th, 2025 | Season 6 | 45 mins 21 secs
american legion, army. 82nd airborne, be the one, birthday, buddy check, california wildfire, careers, chalk river, coast guard, collaboration, community, congress, disaster relief, employment, entrepreneur, farts are funny, gwot, hot chocolate, jimmy carter, mental health, military, military spouses, natural disaster, nuclear meltdown, nuclear navy, palisades fire, post-9/11, red tape, reddit rabbit hole, service, transition, usaa face the fight, veteran, veteran suicide
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 247: Tango Alpha Lima: Folk musician Mary Gauthier on helping veterans through songwriting
January 21st, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 6 mins
addiction, alchemy, alcohol abuse, american legion, amish, artist, be the one, bob dylan, chef, community, depression, dui, environmental, folk music, green burial, gwot, humanity, ibogaine, joan baez, love, lyrics, mdma, meaning, mennonite, mental health, military, missile defense, national cemetery, north dakota, open mic night, passion, poetry, post-9/11, psilocybin, ptsd, purpose, pyramid, sad songs, service, singer, songwriter, storyteller, study, surrender, tbi, treatment, va, veteran, viking funeral, vulnerability
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 246: Tango Alpha Lima: Former POW and Leading with Honor founder Col. Lee Ellis
January 14th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 13 mins
100th anniversary, american legion, arctic, baseball, centennial, coaching, cold war, community, confidence, f4 phantom, flight school, geneva convention, global warming, greenland, gwot, hanoi hilton, ho chi mihn trail, humility, laos, leadership, marine, military, post-9/11, pow, prisoner of war, project iceworm, purpose, relationships, resilience, romance, sear school, service, torture, toxic waste, veteran, vietnam war, vulnerability
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 245: Tango Alpha Lima: Iraqi-born interpreter and U.S. Army Capt. Mazin Mozan
January 7th, 2025 | Season 6 | 1 hr 18 mins
advocacy, alaska, allies, american legion, be the one, bureaucracy, cancellation, citizenship, coalition forces, combat, combat trauma, community, duty, fairbanks, fishing, gwot, healthcare system, interpreter, iraq, junk food, linguist, loyalty, mental health, mental health provider, mental wellness, military, new years, norway, post-9/11, ptsd, red tape, resolution, servant leadership, service, siv, special immigrant visa, submarine, therapy, trauma bonding, va, veteran
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 244: Tango Alpha Lima: Health Coach and Nutritionist Kelley Gilberry
December 17th, 2024 | Season 5 | 52 mins 43 secs
american legion, blood sugar, ccls, christmas, chronic carb loading syndrome, clean-eating, community, decor, fast-food, food science, gwot, health coach, holiday, idaho, illinois, insulin levels, lifestyle change, mcrib, military, missouri, nutritionist, obesity, pixie stix, plant-based diet, post, post-9/11, pre-diabetes, prebiotics, probiotics, real men of genius, service, the breakfast club, twinkies, ultra-processed food, veteran, weight lost
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 243: Tango Alpha Lima: National Military Family Association CEO Besa Pinchotti
December 10th, 2024 | Season 5 | 49 mins 48 secs
advocacy, american legion, bloom, blue star, camp, camp bondsteel, child care, civil service, community, congress, financial security, food insecurity, gwot, health care, journalist, junior enlisted, kosovo, mental wellness, military, military family, military family quality of life, military spouse, military teens, nato, online community, operation purple, pcs, politician, post-9/11, public service, refugee, resources, scholarship, service, snap, support, survivor benefit, taps, tuskegee, unemployment, veteran, world leaders
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 242: Tango Alpha Lima: Wives of the Armed forces founders Jennifer Ferrell and Kirsten Navaroli
December 3rd, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 9 mins
academy, air-quotes, american legion, career support, cbrn, chemical warfare, christmas, christmas vacation, community, fiber-optics, friendship, gift-giving, giving tuesday, gwot, holiday, innovation, mental health, military, military family, military spouse, milspouse, post-9/11, project atlas, relationship, resources, robot dog, robot wars, rural veterans, service, social media, social network, support, telehealth, thanksgiving, transition, uplifting, va, veteran, veteran-owned], virtual military bestie, wishes, women in combat
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Tango Alpha Lima Be the One EP16: VA Chief of Innovation Dr. Indra Sandal
December 1st, 2024 | Season 5 | 44 mins 28 secs
access to care, accessibility, ai technology, american legion, be the one, citizenship, community, dali lama, gwot, hackathon, innovation, makeathon, mental health, mental wellness, military, national center for innovation, naturalization, post-9/11, prevention, ptsd, rideshare, service, suicide prevention, technology, transportation, uber rx, venture studio, veteran
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.