Veterans' Voices

David Hart and Tim O’Sullivan, both vets, one Army and one Air Force who met at what’s known as a Warrior Weekend.

Meet Sam Surowitz and Seth Gordon Ph.D. on Veterans Champions. They support military veterans at the University of Dayton and at Wright State University.

Marilyn McCauley and Cassie Barlow, two of WYSO's Veteran Champions, talk about the organization McCauley founded, named Operation Fairborn Cares.

The local division of Greater Miami Valley MyVeteran Community is led by Air Force Veteran, Cassie Barlow. In this second story of the series, Barlow tells her friend Marilyn McCauley why she became involved in MyVeteran Community and why it’s important to attract veterans to the area.

Sexual assault in the military is a pervasive problem. The Pentagon estimates that about 20,500 service members were sexually assaulted in 2018.

Women in the military often face two fronts. They fight the enemy and prejudice from male enlistees. Navy veteran Dawn Bellinger of Beavercreek who tells…

D-Day veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin of Xenia was part of a unit that parachuted down over Utah Beach in the dark of night on June 6, 1944. It was the beginning of the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany. 70 years later, at age 93, Martin returned to Normandy to jump from a plane to commemorate the anniversary. Air Force veteran Kevin Price of Bellbrook talks to Martin, one of his heroes, whose fascination with the Navy and submarine service first lead him to the recruiting office.

In the Air Force, the Instructors rule boot camp. With early wake up calls and long hours of physical training, they ground discipline into enlistees. In this encore edition of Veterans’ Voices, Air Force veteran Herman Webb of Fairborn tells his daughters, Samantha Webb and Jennifer Lobo that his strength and self-control prepared him well for his military service.

In recent years, research has shown that post traumatic stress disorder can be helped with expressive writing. Marine Corps veteran Chris Bussler of Harveysburg tells his wife, Wendy, about a creative strategy he found to cope with the stress of his multiple deployments.

On the Washington mall, just south of the black granite Vietnam Wall, there’s a statute of a wounded soldier surrounded by three nurses. The Vietnam Women’s Memorial tells the story of some 11,000 uniformed women who served in Vietnam. In this encore edition of Veterans' Voices, we hear from Army veteran Susan Wambach of Washington Township as she talks to her wife Renee Clevenger.

This story originally aired January 20, 2020.Military suicides continue to climb. It’s a deadly trend that Pentagon officials say is frustrating and they…

When Betty Ann Borders’ husband joined the Air Force, like many military spouses, she found herself trying to balance the couple’s jobs and family…