Social Media doesn’t tell the real story. It might look like we’re crushing it online, but the reality is that it’s held together by toothpicks and dental floss. For the final episode of the 2023 Army Navy Game Tailgate Series, Fran Racioppi welcomed back Travis Wilson; fellow Green Beret, entrepreneur, and Green Beret Foundation’s Director of Mission & Program Delivery.

Travis and Fran debunk the myth behind Green Beret to Green Beret support; and why supporting each other’s businesses, families and initiatives is an important part of post-military success. As Green Berets we would have given our lives for the guy next to us; but when we get out, we forget that our brothers need the same level of support in the next chapter.

In a Jedburgh Podcast first, Travis flips the script and asks Fran how he’s doing. Plus they catch up on the newest products from Alpha Elite Performance and how the AEP Outdoors is taking Veterans fishing in Mexico and heli-hunting across the world.

Veterans know better than anyone the challenges other Veterans face in service and beyond; yet they’re often the last to volunteer support physically or financially to Veteran Service Organizations. We need Veterans to match civilian levels of support.

Take a listen, watch, or read our conversation. Then grab a pre-workout, some GBNT Sleep and Rally and Recover.

The Jedburgh Podcast and the Jedburgh Media Channel are an official program of The Green Beret Foundation. Learn more on The Jedburgh Podcast Website. Subscribe to us and follow @jedburghpodcast on all social media. Watch the full video version on YouTube.

Highlights:

• 0:00 Welcome to the Army Navy Game Tailgate
• 4:47 The most support comes from those who didn’t serve
• 7:24 Green Berets need to support other Green Berets
• 10:46 Extreme outdoors with AEP Outdoors
• 11:50 Alpha Elite Performance drops Rally & Recovery
• 13:45 Army by 7
• 15:18 How’s Fran doing?

Quotes:

• “Our biggest support has come from people who didn’t serve.” (5:52)
• “The true impact for guys like you and I is it creates an environment for us to get together.” (6:37)
• “It’s very healing to get back together with other Green Berets and their families.” (7:47)
• “These guys are hurting and struggling because they’re not getting the support of the brotherhood.” (9:50)
• “The only person that ever failed is the one that quit. So don’t quit.” (17:29)
• “I don’t look at anything and say I can’t do it. I look at everything and I say how do I make it happen.” (17:53)

America’s military must return our service members back to society ready to lead. Special operators are given the best tools in the military to do their jobs. They’re also completely immersed into the special forces lifestyle with almost no distractions. Yet when they leave service, they’re often left to themselves to find the right tools and to figure out what training they need to be successful in the next chapter.

Two of America’s most important organizations have partnered to bring our Veterans the best tools and training all wrapped up into an immersive, life changing program.

For the third episode of our 2023 Army Navy Game tailgate series Fran Racioppi sat down with retired Brigadier General Jack Hammond, CEO of Home Base. Home Base is founded and supported by the Boston Red Sox and Mass General Hospital; a formidable team dedicated to winning and solving the most complex challenges in medicine and athletic performance.

Home Base provides leading edge clinical care to the medical challenges faced by our veterans; including the effects of prolonged blast exposure, mental trauma, diabetes and even cancer. Veterans train directly with the best medical and athletic performance professionals in the industry with one goal in mind; return our military personnel back to society ready to perform at the highest level and continue to lead others.

Take a listen, watch or read our conversation…and whether you’re from Beantown or not, this is a Red Sox game you want to be a part of.

The Jedburgh Podcast and the Jedburgh Media Channel are an official program of The Green Beret Foundation. Learn more on The Jedburgh Podcast Website. Subscribe to us and follow @jedburghpodcast on all social media. Watch the full video version on YouTube.

Highlights:

• 0:00 Welcome to the Army Navy Game Tailgate
• 3:50 Home Base is built by the Boston Red Sox & Mass General
• 7:06 Two months of therapy in two weeks
• 11:18 How Home Base is treating Operator Syndrome
• 16:38 How to support Home Base
• 17:50 Proven results of the program

Quotes:

• “When you look at the opportunity with those two powerhouse organizations and what the potential is to actually bend the curve and make a difference; they had me at hello.” (5:30)
• “We have access to the best clinical resources in the world. Bar none.” (6:12)
• “We created this 14-day intensive clinical program…that compresses two years of therapy into two weeks.” (8:55)
• “We’re gonna be able to figure out what are the downstream chronic illnesses associated with concussive injury.” (13:49)
• “If you don’t have the tools to do a job, it’s like a monkey trying to change a tire with a screwdriver.” (19:50)

“The mission. The men. Me.” The “3 M’s” of leadership taught to officers in Vietnam and still applicable to building great leaders in any industry. As leaders we put people first, but sometimes the mission must happen regardless of the people.

For the second episode of our 2023 Army Navy Game tailgate party, we warmed up with a little Cold Zero Whiskey and a conversation with two former Green Berets of very different generations who left service for federal law enforcement.

Casey Maxted and Bill “Hawk” Albracht joined Fran Racioppi to share why grit and teamwork were critical to their careers in Special Forces, in the FBI and Secret Service, and now as they build a spirits company.

Grab a glass of Cold Zero then take a listen, watch or read our conversation as Casey breaks down the opportunities and challenges that come with starting a spirits brand, and Bill shares what it was like to go back to Vietnam and walk the battlefield he once fought on.

The Jedburgh Podcast and the Jedburgh Media Channel are an official program of The Green Beret Foundation. Learn more on The Jedburgh Podcast Website. Subscribe to us and follow @jedburghpodcast on all social media. Watch the full video version on YouTube.

Highlights:

• 0:00 Welcome to the Army Navy tailgate
• 3:48 Hawk volunteers for Vietnam
• 4:32 Casey volunteers after 9/11
• 5:27 Hawk protected four Presidents in the Secret Service
• 7:56 Casey joins the FBI
• 8:48 The character traits needed to build elite teams after Special Forces
• 12:21 Founding Cold Zero
• 14:09 Biggest challenge of starting a spirits company
• 16:27 How Warrior Rising is supporting Veteran entrepreneurs
• 17:46 The Greatest Generations Foundation takes Veterans back to their battlefields

Quotes:

• “I want to join the Army. I want to be a paratrooper. I want to go Infantry. And I want to go to Vietnam.” (4:09)
• “Air Force One flew right over me and I don’t know what happened, but that moment is when I was like ‘I’m gonna serve’.” (5:04)
• “The protection of Jimmy Carter, or Ronald Reagan, or George Bush, it never varied…time seems to by quicker when you’re with somebody that you admire.” (7:40)
• “You look for grit in almost everything that you do. People that are gonna stick with it when the cards are stacked against you.” (9:06)
• “There’s the three M’s of leadership: the mission, the men and me.” (10:18)
• “If we truly understand our mission….in those moments when we’re under pressure, when there’s chaos, when there’s confusion, we can come back to that guiding fabric.” (11:40)
• “It’s not about the individual. It is about the team. The team going forward. The team accomplishing the mission.” (12:15)