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 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.
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Episode 241: Tango Alpha Lima: How diet affects mental wellness with Dr. Uma Naidoo
November 26th, 2024 | Season 5 | 59 mins 21 secs
abraham lincoln, allies, american legion, bears, behavior modification, black friday, blessed, civil war, community, cranberries, cyber monday, dahl, discipline, flavor, food as medicine, food for the soul, giving tuesday, gwot, habits, lifestyle medicine, meal planning, mediterranean diet, mental health, military, motivation, movement, nutrition, polish army, post-9/11, psychotherapy, ptsd, resilience, saw, service, small business saturday, stuffing, thanksgiving, treatment, turkey, turmeric, veteran, wellness, world war ii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.