Tango Alpha Lima Podcast

Brought to you by The American Legion

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

  • Episode 240: Tango Alpha Lima: Military analyst and author Ethan Brown

    November 19th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min
    american legion, author, be the one, bi-partisan, books, buddy check, call of duty, cancer, close air support, combat, community, conspiracy theory, deployment, future soldier, gwot, health, hurricane, jtac, kindle, legislative, mental health, military, military family, national security, natural disaster, obesity epidemic, post-9/11, reading, recruitment, reddit, service, special ops, tacp, think-tank, toxic exposure, veteran, veteran healthcare, wellness

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 239: Tango Alpha Lima: The Power of Lifestyle Medicine with Air Force veteran Dr. Mary Anne Kiel

    November 12th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 2 mins
    american legion, army/navy game, community, dadt, don’t ask don’t tell, film, football, gwot, health-care, lgbtq, lifestyle medicine, military, movie, mystery meat, obesity, performance medicine, plant-based, post-9/11, presidential pardon, ptsd, public health, rivalry, service, tbi, treatment, veteran, whole-food, world war ii, wwii

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 238: Tango Alpha Lima: Vet the Vote Co-Founder Anil Nathan

    November 2nd, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min
    advocate, american legion, apology, ballots, be the one, civic engagement, comedy, community, delta airlines, elections, flight, gwot, jury duty, marine corps, military, national convention, office joe, pentagon, pilot, poll workers, polls, post-9/11, scuttlebutt, service, space force, true-crime, vet the vote, veteran, veteran suicide, vietnam veteran, voting, we the veterans

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Tango Alpha Lima Be The One EP15: Filmmaker Jake Rademacher

    November 1st, 2024  |  Season 5  |  43 mins 8 secs
    afghanistan, american legion, be the one, boys state, brothers, community, deployment, documentary, embedded, film, gwot, hollywood, homecoming, iraq, journaling, marines, mental health, mental wellness, military, military family, military transition, movie, post-9/11, premiere, ptsd, resiliency, sacrifice, screening, service, suicide prevention, therapy, thriving, veteran, veterans, vietnam veterans, workshop

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 237: Tango Alpha Lima: Be Unstoppable with former Navy SEAL Alden Mills

    October 29th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 2 mins
    american legion, community, congressional gold medal, dad jokes, dustoff pilot, entrepreneur, fitness, force multiplier, goal-setting, gwot, hurricane helene, hurricane milton, leadership, military, military transition, naval academy, navy seal, post-9/11, sacrifice, service, unlock your potential, veteran, vietnam

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 236: Tango Alpha Lima: Burn Pits 360 Activist Danielle Robinson

    October 22nd, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 13 mins
    advocacy, american legion, apache, area 52, blackhawk, burn pits, cancer, chinook, community, gaffers' tape, gorilla tape, gwot, iraq, kosovo, legislation, military, pact act, post-9/11, service, state of the union, top secret, toxic exposure, uct tape, va disability rating, veteran

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 235: Tango Alpha Lima: Blue Star Families Founder and CEO Kathy Roth-Douquet

    October 15th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 6 mins
    american legion, beetlejuice, blue star, capitol hill, childcare, community, dark humor, financial security, gwot, halloween, homeless, lobbying, love, marine corps, mental wellness, military, military family, military lifestyle, military spouse, pcs, post-9/11, service, total family force, tropic thunder, veteran, virginia, welcome week

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 234: Tango Alpha Lima: Stronghold Food Pantry CEO and founder Monica Bassett

    October 8th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  42 mins 1 sec
    american legion, anonymity, asking for help, bravo zulu, bz, clean your plate, community, compassion, empathy, financial stability, food insecurity, food pantry, food stamps, gwot, junior enlisted, logistics, military, military families, navy, networking, post-9/11, sasquatch, service, stigma, supply shortage, veteran, veteran non-profits, wic

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 233: Tango Alpha Lima: Exit 12 Dance Company co-founder and Artistic Director Román Baca

    October 1st, 2024  |  Season 5  |  59 mins 52 secs
    american legion, art therapy, arts, ballet, bravo zulu, breakdancing, choreography, community, creative, dance, gwot, homeless veterans, hope, iraq, joy, korean war veteran, marine, military, military family, navy, olympics, post-9/11, raygun, scandal, service, spirituality, veteran, wifi

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Tango Alpha Lima Be The One EP14: Green Star Mother and Veteran Suicide Prevention advocate

    October 1st, 2024  |  Season 5  |  39 mins 10 secs
    abu ghraib prison, american legion, anti-psychotics, be the one, community, green star family, green star mother, gwot, mental health, mental wellness, military, military family, post-9/11, prescription, psychiatric drugs, ptsd, service, suicidal ideation, suicide prevention, va, veteran

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 232: Tango Alpha Lima: VA Pact Act Transitional Executive Director Steven Miska

    September 24th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 17 mins
    accredited service officers, afghan interpreters, agent orange, american legion, astronaut, budget shortfalls, c&p exam, community, disability claim, fallujah, flight surgeon, gwot, homelessness, ied, inter-generational effects of exposure, international space station, iraqi interpreters, issues-based, local national partners, military, military transition, mustache, naval aviator, navy seal, non-partisan, pact act, post-9/11, presumptive conditions, professional development, service, service dog, siv, tikrit, toxic exposure, unhoused veterans, va secretary, vba, veteran, veteran employment, vietnam veteran, vso, west la va, west point

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 231: Tango Alpha Lima: "The Littlest" Navy SEAL David Brown

    September 17th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 11 mins
    007, american legion, arine, author, buds, civic duty, community, election, epa, freedom, gwot, hell week, ied, interpreter, iraq, jacques cousteau, memoir, military, navy seal, ncis, politics, post-9/11, service, special agent, two-party system, udt frogmen, veteran, veterans issues, voting, white house

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 230: Tango Alpha Lima: Marine Corps veteran, author and adventurer Akshay Nanavati

    September 10th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 29 mins
    9/11, addiction, adventuring, alcohol, american legion, antarctica, be the one, blackhawk down, camaraderie, claims processors, community, disability claim, drugs, duality, e-sports, ego, expedition, gaming, gwot, keto, marine corps, medal of honor, military, nature, oklahoma, peer-to-peer, post-9/11, ptsd, regiment gaming, service, south pole, suicide, support, va, valor, veteran

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 229: Tango Alpha Lima: Irish bassist and wellness advocate Tanya O'Callaghan

    September 3rd, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 5 mins
    american legion, animal welfare, bass player, bassist, be the one, caretakers, community, concurrent receipt, disability claim, documentary, foodie, gig, gwot, irish, mental health, military, miss usa, musician, nomad, pact act, pageant, post-9/11, richard starr act, service, suicide, touring, training, unity, va, va benefits, veteran, vietnam veteran

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Tango Alpha Lima Be The One EP13: Golden Gate Bridge jump survivor Kevin Hines

    September 1st, 2024  |  Season 5  |  38 mins 37 secs
    american legion, atlanta, be the one, bipolar depression, brain health, community, despair, food as medicine, functional medicine, golden gate bridge, gwot, healing, hope, i need help now, isolation, listen, mental health, mental wellness, military, normalize thoughts of suicide, post-9/11, ptsd, recovery, self-awareness, service, suicidal ideation, suicide prevention, veteran

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.

  • Episode 228: Tango Alpha Lima: American Legion 105th National Convention

    August 27th, 2024  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 18 mins
    american legion, be the one, burial benefits, cemetery, champva, coin collection, comfort, community, crafting, dental care, fitness, gaming, gravesite, gwot, healing, honor, ketamine, medicare, medicare advantage, mental health, military, military spouse, mint, neuro plasticity, post-9/11, psychedelics, ptsd, public health, quilting, rpg, service, social isolation, stigma, suicidality, supplements, tricare, veteran, wellcare, wellness, wwii, wwii memorial

    Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.