Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business
We started Tracer Burnout with a simple idea: a platform for military veterans to share their stories of service. By inviting veterans to speak about their experiences, we hope to help them feel heard, to know their service matters, to preserve their memories for future generations, and to provide civilians with a better understanding of life in the service.
Your financial support helps us bring the stories of veterans to everyone and preserve the memories of their service for future generations. Consider a monthly contribution.
In this episode, Field Artilleryman and author, Joseph Fontenot, joins us in the virtual studio to tell us how a bayou bass player became an “infantilleryman” in Afghanistan. We discuss everything from Paladins in South Korea to Drill Sergeant duty in South Carolina; and from combat overseas to returning home and fighting the war within. We also talk about his upcoming book Sons of the Arghandab and how a couple of past guests helped make it happen. Plus, he tells us how to smuggle protein powder into basic training.
In the Free Fire Area, we talk about the merits of regional barbeque and why Carolina style is the best!
“Jacob was my best friend. I carried him.”
In this year’s Memorial Day episode, we speak with a Gold Star mother and brother about Lance Corporal Jacob Levy, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2011. They tell us about how 9/11 stirred an obsession in eleven-year-old Jacob, how the Lumbee Tribe honors all veterans, some of the difficulties Gold Star families go through after losing someone, and the different ways they now go about preserving, not only Jacob's memory, but all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
In this Quick Hit, Lynn Marilla joins us in the virtual studio to tell us about Eagle Rock Camp. From art therapy and family crests to date nights with pumpkin creme brûlée, we discuss Eagle Rock's mission to help veteran families heal their wounds together.
In this Quick Hit episode, we speak with Ms. Mallory Crabtree whose father, SFC Daniel Crabtree, was killed in Iraq when she was barely a year old. She tells us about some of the hardships she faced growing up without her dad, the things her family did to preserve his memory for her, the largest Star Wars collection in Ohio, and a little advice for other Gold Star children.