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Third Squad

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  • In 2011, veteran and journalist Elliott Woods embedded with the twelve Marines of Third Squad in one of the most violent parts of Afghanistan at the height of the war against the Taliban. Only eleven of the twelve would make it home. A decade later—with America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan looming—Elliott goes on a cross-country road trip to track down the Third Squad survivors, to talk about the war and coming home, and to ask: What was it all for? And where do we go from here?    Third Squad is a 12-part documentary podcast hosted by Woods and produced by Airloom Media. New episodes every Thursday starting October 21, 2021.
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  • BONUS: One Last Climb

    BONUS: One Last Climb
    Sep 2 2022

    Camp Pendleton, CA: Patrol Base Fires veterans Manuel Mendoza, John Bohlinger, Michael Minor, and Noah Southworth reunite at their former Marine base on California’s Pacific Coast to place a new memorial marker for their deceased comrades.

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    44 mins
  • The End of the Road

    The End of the Road
    Feb 9 2022

    Asheville, NC: Teresa Bradley still lives in the house where she grew up and where she raised her twin sons, Michael and Timothy Dutcher. In the final visit of the journey, Teresa and Tim tell the story of Michael’s life and how his death continues to haunt their family.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • I Think This is Hell

    I Think This is Hell
    Jan 13 2022

    Ventnor City, NJ: Jeffrey Lopez grew up steps away from the Atlantic Ocean with a house full of brothers who loved to fight. His mother, Rosibel, escaped war-torn El Salvador in hopes of raising her family in peace—and her son’s deployment to Sangin was a nightmare come true.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
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A must "Listen"

Third Squad is a created by a veteran, and experienced/talented journalist telling very important stories about war the way they should be told. Elliott Woods is a very skilled and insightful interviewer who connects with his subjects and feels his way through a story. This podcast is the kind you can't stop once you start until you have listened all the way through. It LETS you feel uncomfortable because the experiences of the subjects were so hard. It's what you get when a capable and engaged storyteller finds the right stories from veterans with a raw and unvarnished recall of their experiences.

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Great story of the true horrors

As an active duty member to this day. This story still rocks my core of the true horrors of war that no one else knows but the actual member who was there on the heart of it. I’m so amazed by the story. I recommend it to all my active duty family. One word for this story is “
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