Episode Archive
327 episodes of Tango Alpha Lima Podcast since the first episode, which aired on April 1st, 2020.
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Episode 254: 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: Transitioning tips for service members
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: Guide to a healthy heart for military veterans
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: What veterans should know about moving abroad
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: 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: Meet 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: Former Congressman 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: Folk musician helps 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: Former POW leads with honor
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: Iraqi-born interpreter's escape to the U.S.
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: Navy veteran's secret to health living
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: How to help military families thrive
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: Serving as Wives of the Armed Forces
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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How VA is innovating to prevent veteran suicide
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: How diet affects mental wellness
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: A military analyst's view of national security
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.