Former Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Joe "Doc" Worley served in Iraq as a US Navy Corpsman. He was an infantry platoon medic in Second Battalion, First Marines in Fallujah in 2004.
On September 17, 2004, while on patrol an IED exploded into a Humvee killing a Marine and an Iraqi Interpreter. Not even 10 days prior, his former platoon had seven Marines killed in action when a vehicle borne IED drove into their patrol. The attrition from the blast was so severe that the platoon, known as Pale Rider Three, would be disbanded and the surviving Marines sent to other platoons in Fox Company.
As he was running to the aid of the two comrades mortally wounded by an IED, Joe was hit by a secondary IED that blew off his left leg, and suffered multiple wounds to his right leg, leaving it severely damaged. Miraculously, he survived, and was able to tie his own tourniquet and shout instructions to aid in the treatment the other wounded Marines.
Joe recieved a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart from his actionst that day. After 18 months of rehabilitation at Bethesda and Walter Reed, he now lives in Georgia with his family, and works for America's VetDogs, a non-profit that trains Service and Guide dogs for military and first responders. He also writes, sings, and narrates audiobooks, and tries to stay active in the gym so he can eat donuts and pizza in his spare time.
Joe Worley has hosted 43 Episodes.
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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 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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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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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.