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 223: Tango Alpha Lima: “A Date With Suicide” author D. Paul Fleming
July 23rd, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 11 mins
alternative therapies, american legion, audiobook, author, be the one, catharsis, childhood trauma, community, gwot, humor, legion baseball, mental health, military, military memoir, military story, pact act, post-9/11, ptsd, service, storyteller, suicide, va, va dental care, veteran, writing therapy
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 222: Tango Alpha Lima: Stem Cell therapy with BioXcellerator founder Eric Stoffers
July 16th, 2024 | Season 5 | 47 mins
alternative medicine, american legion, balloon, be the one, bravo zulu, community, community walk, concierge, conscription, entrepreneur, gwot, holistic health, ice cream, ice cream barge, illinois, mandatory service, military, military draft, overseas graves, pacific theatre, post-9/11, selective service, service, stem cell therapy, suicide awareness, veteran, white glove, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 221: Tango Alpha Lima: Warrior Canine Connection with Rick Yount and Joe Ouellette
July 9th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 2 mins
active-duty, american legion, community, concussion, dog training, guide dog, guitar, gwot, irritable heart, labrador retrievers, military, mission, mobility, music therapy, national guard, paws act, post-9/11, prosthetics and sensory services, seeing eye dog, service, service dog, stress signals, tbi, therapy, unfunded mandate, veteran, wounded warrior
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 220: Tango Alpha Lima: Haunted War Tales with Army veteran R.C. Bramhall
July 2nd, 2024 | Season 5 | 57 mins 17 secs
82nd airborne, abu ghraib, afghanistan, almas, american legion, animal attack, author, bigfoot, cannibalism, community, cryptid, energy signature, fda, flying tigers, gwot, haunted, iraq, italy, japanese pow, legend, letters home, mail, mdma, military, military stories, oil-drum drop, op rock, paranormal, post-9/11, postal service, psy-ops, ptsd, quora, reddit rabbit-hole, rock ape, salerno, sasquatch, service, solomon island giants, special forces, suicide, therapy, ufo, unexplained, validation, verification, veteran, vietnam war, writer, wwii
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 11: "Operator Syndrome" author, Dr. Chris Frueh
July 1st, 2024 | Season 5 | 34 mins 32 secs
american legion, anxiety, author, be the one, chronic pain, community, connection, first responder, first responders, ganglion block, gwot, mental health, mental wellness, military, military family, mission, post-9/11, ptsd, service, sleep impairments, special forces, suicide prevention, tbi, therapy, tribe, va psychologist, veteran, vietnam war
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 219: Tango Alpha Lima: Retired Army Maj. Gen. Tammy Smith - Living under the confines of DADT
June 25th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 17 mins
afghan allies, afghanistan, ally, american legion, authenticity, community, dadt, diversity, documentary, don’t ask don’t tell, flag officer, george washington, green beret, gwot, humanizing, inclusivity, korean war, korean war memorial, lgbtq+, major general baron friedrich von steuben, military, military discharge, military family, military memorabilia, military spouse, moral injury, outcomes based learning, post-9/11, powerpoint, pride, purple heart, retrograde, rotc, service, service officers, states' rights, support system, transition, tribe, veteran, vietnam veteran
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 218: Tango Alpha Lima: Wrestle Like a Girl CEO and founder Sally Roberts
June 18th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 16 mins
advocacy, alternative therapies, american legion, assessment, athletics, bad-ass women, baseline, be the one, biomarkers, brain health, camaraderie, cognitive testing, community, dementia, federal employment, female veteran, florida, fod walk, fred smith, gator, gwot, head trauma, hormones, it's ok to not be ok, joy in suffering, leadership, life lessons, love is service, military, military spouses, neurological activity, non-profit, olympics, paris post 1, pentagon, personalized medicine, post-9/11, resources, self-love, service, sharing, state department, stigma, tbi, traumatic brain injury, veteran, veteran of the year, vulnerability, women, wrestling
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 217: Tango Alpha Lima: Veteran Socials to Combat Loneliness Epidemic with Dr. Jay Gorman
June 11th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 8 mins
american legion, arlington, be the one, buddy check, cemetery, community, connection, digital relationships, gaza pier, gi bill, gwot, history, humanitarian aid, loneliness, mementos, mental health care, mental health stigma, military, peer-to-peer connection, post-9/11, post-traumatic growth, purple heart, resilience, service, service dog, social circles, social interactions, social media, substance use, suicidal ideation, tbi, transition, va, veteran, veteran gaming, veterans socials, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 216: Tango Alpha Lima: Wounded veteran and powerlifting champ Omar 'Crispy' Avila
June 4th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 19 mins
aces, agent orange, american legion, arizona ied, bench press, bravo zulu, burn pit, community, deadlift, family, fighter jets, food pantry, forgiveness, gwot, luke skywalker, medical screening, mental health, military, missile defense, pact act, pain management, paralympic athlete, paranormal, patience, post-9/11, powerlifting, prosthetic, self-reflection, service, service officer, star wars, stem cell treatment, support system, survivor guilt, tbi, thankfulness, toxic exposure, uap, ufo, veteran, weightlifting, world record
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 EP10: Freedom Rhythm CEO and Founder Dr. Tiffany Tajiri
June 1st, 2024 | Season 5 | 26 mins 9 secs
american legion, aura, be the one, community, comraderie, connection, creative arts, creativity, fellowship, forgiveness, gwot, healing, mental health, mental wellness, military, neurohacking, passion, post-9/11, ptsd, resilience, service, special forces, spirituality, suicide prevention, therapeutics, trauma processing, veteran, vulnerable
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 215: Tango Alpha Lima: USU CHAMP with Capt. J. Russell Linderman and Andrea Lindsey
May 28th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 15 mins
american legion, band of brothers, blackhawk, boeing, chinook, community, d-day, dietitian, easy company, evidence based, fara, fitness, gwot, holisitc, human performance, identification, legion family, military, military superstitions, national commander, navy sea cadets, navy seal, normandy, nutrition, pandemic, paratroopers, pcs, post-9/11, preventative medicine, ptsd, recruiting, research, service, sleep hygiene, sleeplessness, sons of the american legion, stress, supplements, tbi, transition, travel, tsa, usid, vertical flight, veteran, weight-loss, wellness
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 214: Tango Alpha Lima: DPAA Director Kelly McKeague
May 21st, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 7 mins
allies, american legion, anthropologist, archeologist, chosin reservoir, closure, cold war, community, dmz, dna, dpaa, excavation, forensic sciences, funeral, generational grieving, gold star families, guadalcanal, gwot, historian, honor, humanitarian effort, kia, korean war, legion riders, loss, medal of honor, medics, military, military honor burial, missing in action, moh, never leave a fallen warrior behind, north korea, photographer, pilot, poppy, poppyday, post-9/11, pow/mia, remembrance, repatriation, russian prison, service, spy plane, taps, veteran, vietnam, wwi, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 213: Tango Alpha Lima: 2024 Miss America - U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Madison Marsh
May 14th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 3 mins
afits, american legion, american legion riders, astronaut, aviation, back street boys, bookworm, bosnia, cancer research, chaplain, character, check ride, college education, community, competition, djbouti, dna, dpaa, fantasy book, gi bill, gwot, horn of africa, integrity, laos, long snapper, mia, military, military recruiting, motorcycle, nfl, non-profit, pageant life, pageants, pancreatic cancer, pilot, post 9/11 gi bill, post-9/11, richard starr act, role model, scotus, service, space camp, spy, taekwondo, tbr, tetris, thrillers, veteran, vietnam war, wind therapy, yemen
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 212: Tango Alpha Lima: Air Force EOD veteran and endurance athlete Adam Popp
May 7th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 7 mins
9/11, air force, american legion, arnold palmer, baghdad, care packages, combat veteran, community, cumulative blast, deployment, elite athlete, eod, explosives, force reductions, golf, gwot, ied, invisible wounds, iraq, katz deli, macrame, marathon, mental health, mentorship, military, motivation, op tempo, opportunities, pez, post-9/11, post-traumatic growth, recovery, remains recovery, resilience, running, service, social media, the hurt locker, transition, ultra-marathon, veteran
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 EP09: "The Keeper" with George Eshleman
May 1st, 2024 | Season 5 | 27 mins 27 secs
american legion, appalachian trail, be the one, community, desert shield, desert storm, gwot, hollywood, mental health, mental wellness, military, movie, mst, name tapes, post-9/11, ptsd, service, stigma, suicide prevention, the keeper, veteran, you’re never alone
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 211: Tango Alpha Lima: Comic artist and illustrator Stephen Russell
April 30th, 2024 | Season 5 | 57 mins 11 secs
american legion, article 15, artist, authentic stories, author, baqubah, care packages, catharsis, ceremony, comic books, comic strips, comics, community, creative process, deployment, fob warhorse, gwot, honor, illustrator, iraq, iwo jima, memoir, military, native american veteran, orthopedic joints, patriotism, petraus, post-9/11, remembrance, self-reflection, service, storyteller, troop surge, veteran, veteran-owned business, vietnam, world war ii, writing therapy, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.