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They Had to Go Out

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  • Get ready to whiten those knuckles and hold fast as we get underway to talk with Coast Guard veterans about the most daring, dangerous, and epic sea stories ever told. Whether facing ruthless men who prey on other mariners or storms that turn calm seas into graveyards, those who go down to the sea and cast off lines enter the most challenging and dangerous environment on earth. Only here will you hear their stories and the lessons gained through their experience. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theyhadtogoout/support
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Episodes
  • Episode 90 - Sandra Stosz - Vice Admiral (Ret.) - Icebreaking - Cutter CO

    Episode 90 - Sandra Stosz - Vice Admiral (Ret.) - Icebreaking - Cutter CO
    Nov 23 2021
    Vice Admiral Sandra Stosz (Ret.) talks twelve years at sea aboard six different cutters ranging from red to white to black hulls, icebreaking as a newly minted ensign, command of a cutter defending the approaches to New York after 9/11, running high seas search and rescue aboard polar icebreakers, leading the service’s recruit training center and its academy, serving at the highest levels of leadership as the aid to the Secretary of Transportation, and her new book “Breaking Ice and Breaking Glass: Leading in Uncharted Waters”. Learn more at https://sandrastosz.com/book/breaking-ice-and-breaking-glass/ #uscg #coastguard #icebreaking #admiral #military #seaservice #veteran --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theyhadtogoout/support
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Episode 89 - John Marks - Captain (Ret.) - Chief Yeoman

    Episode 89 - John Marks - Captain (Ret.) - Chief Yeoman
    Nov 15 2021
    For this episode we welcome our first ever Yeoman to the show and he does not disappoint. CAPT John Marks (Ret.) talks adventures in the South Pacific including visits to the leper colony on Molokai and a murder at a remote LORAN station, running a Miss Ocean Station contest with flight stewardesses from the middle of the North Atlantic, how the concept of “member’s responsibility” developed along with the Yeoman correspondence course, the punches and sponges of the first ever Servicewide Exam, becoming a Chief Petty Officer, Officer Candidate School, surviving the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, developing NORTHCOM, and rising from an E2 to an O6 to lead the post 9/11 port security grant program. You don’t want to miss this one. #uscg #coastguard #military #veteran #veterans #armedforces --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theyhadtogoout/support
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    1 hr and 49 mins
  • Episode 88 - Lee Fanning - LCDR - Flight Surgeon - Sikorsky HH52A

    Episode 88 - Lee Fanning - LCDR - Flight Surgeon - Sikorsky HH52A
    Oct 20 2021
    Former LCDR Lee Fanning talks service as a Flight Surgeon at Air Station San Francisco, responding on his first day of duty to the crash landing of a 747 with 300 souls aboard, dodging pine trees and traversing coastal cliffs to save the life of an injured hiker, a violent air hijacking, and flying missions as aircrew aboard the Sikorsky HH52A. To hear more check out Doc Fanning’s book “Rescues from the Sky” available now at https://rescuesfromtheskybyleewaltersmd.com/ #uscg #coastguard #theyhadtogoout --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theyhadtogoout/support
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    53 mins
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