Stacy Pearsall began her service as an Air Force photographer at the age of 17. During her time in service, she traveled to over 41 countries. She attended the Military Photojournalism Program at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University where she was named a 50 Forward distinguished graduate. During her deployments, she earned the Bronze Star Medal and Air Force Commendation with Valor for combat actions in Iraq. Though combat disabled and retired from military service, her service animal Charlie helps her continue to work worldwide as an independent photographer and as an author, educator, military consultant, BRAVO748 public speaker and founder of the Veterans Portrait Project.
Her work has been exhibited at The Woodruff Arts Center, The Pentagon, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and the National Veterans Memorial and Museum among numerous other galleries and venues. She is the Producer and Host of the PBS television series, After Action. She is one of only three women to win the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Military Photographer of the Year competition, and the first woman to earn it twice. She has authored two books – Shooter: Combat from Behind the Camera and A Photojournalist’s Field Guide: In the Trenches with Stacy Pearsall.
Stacy has been presented with the Jefferson Award and Hill Vets 100 Artist of the Year, honored with the Daughters of the American Revolution Margaret Cochran Corbin Award and the Girl Scout’s Woman of Distinction Award, lauded by President Barack Obama as a White House as a Champion of Change, and she holds an honorary doctoral degree in journalism from The Citadel. She has served as a nominating juror for the Pulitzer Prize.
Her military medals and honors include:
Bronze Star
Air Medal with one oak leaf cluster (one earned aboard Army UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopters in Iraq and the other earned aboard Marines CH-53E and CH46E Seahawks in HOA)
Joint Service Commendation Medal
Air Force Commendation with Valor with one oak leaf cluster
Joint Service Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster
Army Achievement Medal
Air Force Combat Action Medal
Joint Meritorious Unit Award with one oak leaf cluster
Meritorious Unit Award
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with Valor
Air Force Combat Action Medal
Other Military Honors:
Army Combat Action Badge
Military Photographer of the year (2003 and 2007)
Joint Junior Service Member of the Year (1999, 2000, 2001)
Air Force NCO of the Year (2004)
John Levitow Recipient
Stacy became a life member of The American Legion when she transitioned out of service and joined Post 166 in Goose Creek when she settled in South Carolina a few years later.
Stacy Pearsall has hosted 49 Episodes.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 227: Tango Alpha Lima: Wellbeing Think Tank founder Chase Sterling
August 20th, 2024 | Season 5 | 1 hr 25 mins
ai, american legion, community, dogs, entrepreneur, exercise science, fitness, gwot, halo, health, inclusivity, k9, marines, military, military dog, military transition, navsea, pentagon, post-9/11, red sky morning, robot, role model, service, spaceballs, supersoldier, swifties, taylor swift, toxic workplace, training, veteran, weightlifting, wellbeing consultant, working dog, workplace wellbeing
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.
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Episode 226: Tango Alpha Lima: Marine Corps Veteran and Comedian Bryson Banks
August 13th, 2024 | Season 5 | 49 mins 19 secs
air force veteran, american legion, be the one, buddy check, camaraderie, coffee chat, comedian, community, crowdwork, f-bomb, fasting, gwot, honor, legion family, mental health support, military, military spouse, pershing park, post-9/11, ptsd, remembrance, service, soldier’s journey, stand-up, veteran, world war i memorial, wwii
Tango Alpha Lima is a podcast from The American Legion. Learn more at www.legion.org/tangoalphalima.