en http://wunc.org/term/ft-bragg-stories-podcast https://static.feedpress.com/logo/ftbraggstories-5a8c3b2aadd51.png Society & Culture/Personal Journals Government & Organizations/Non-Profit nonadult Personal Narratives from Ft. Bragg North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc The Ft. Bragg Stories podcast uses personal narratives to explore life on and around this country's largest military base. It's a collaboration between the Fayetteville Observer and WUNC's American Homefront Project. Personal Narratives from Ft. Bragg http://wunc.org/term/ft-bragg-stories-podcast The Ft. Bragg Stories podcast uses personal narratives to explore life on and around this country's largest military base. It's a collaboration between the Fayetteville Observer and WUNC's American Homefront Project. en Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:17:43 +0000 NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC kweston@wunc.org The Ft. Bragg Stories podcast uses personal narratives to explore life on and around this country's largest military base. It's a collaboration between the Fayetteville Observer and WUNC's American Homefront Project. no The Ft. Bragg Stories podcast uses personal narratives to explore life on and around this country's largest military base. It's a collaboration between the Fayetteville Observer and WUNC's American Homefront Project. You can hear other stories in the series at here. If you'd like to share your Ft Bragg story, you can send it here , or email us . Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes Google Play Stitcher no kweston@wunc.org North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-time-bow-out?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories This year, after more than a decade of service as a linguist and a paratrooper, Jay Huwieler made the decision to leave the military. “It was a combination of feeling like I’d served my purpose, and at the same time feeling like there had been too many efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 137129 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:29:24 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-more-happiness-my-life?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Jeremy Moore was on a night patrol in Afghanistan in 2012 when he fell nearly 60 feet down an open well. He suffered serious injuries to his legs, spine, and head. He returned to Fort Bragg, determined to stay in the Army and keep working, even while he efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 137122 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 23 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-what-we-were-called-do?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Military service is the thread that weaves Bobby and Alexia Fields’ family life together. He’s on active duty at Fort Bragg, she serves in the Army Reserve. Together, they balance the demands of the Army with the responsibility of raising three young efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 136815 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-turning-point-my-life?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories From 1942 until 1978, women who wanted to join the Army served in the Women’s Army Corps. Former Specialist Victoria Landes spent six years as a WAC during the 1960s, training to be a dental assistant at Fort Bragg. “When I graduated at 18, I really didn efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 136345 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 09 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-war-was-wrong?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories As a young man in the late 1960s, Hal Noyes faced the prospect of being drafted to fight in Vietnam. He was opposed to the war, but decided to enlist, hoping to avoid combat. By 1969, he found himself stationed at Fort Bragg, working in the s upply room efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 135921 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 02 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-agriculture-airborne?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Growing up on his family’s farm in southern Alabama, Private First Class Tyler Dunn thought his future lay in agriculture. “Our family farm, we’ve got roughly 3,000 acres that we row crop, we have chicken houses, and we have close to 3,000 head of cattle, efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 135519 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 25 Nov 2018 12:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-helping-incarcerated-veterans?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Lynn and Steve Newsom spent five years as co- directors of Fayetteville’s Quaker House. During their tenure, they advocated for better mental health care for incarcerated veterans, organizing a petition and vigil in A pril 2016 to draw attention to the efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 135260 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:30:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-no-end-sight?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Sergeant First Class Kelly Rodriguez deployed more than five times in the course of her 21-year military career, serving as an Army Combat Medic in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and twice in Afghanistan. She loved her work, but it exposed her to some of the worst efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 134799 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-journey-through-darkness?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Retired Major Ivan Castro’s life was forever changed September 2, 2006, when a mortar landed near him in Iraq. Two of the men in his unit were killed and Castro was gravely injured. The attack left him completely blind, facing a long road to recovery. efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 134367 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 04 Nov 2018 12:30:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-we-try-debunk?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories In 2008, Armando Nunez and a friend decided on a whim to try their hand at ghost-hunting by taking pictures in a local cemetery. His wife Joanna and friend Tom Kuntz soon joined in and together they founded the Paranormal Research Organization of efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 134063 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:30:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-national-emergency?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Jean Wilson was a college freshman on October 22, 1962, when she heard President John F. Kennedy’s speech announcing the presence of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on the island of Cuba. “It sounded like an emergency, like a national emergency,” Wilson efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 133674 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 21 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-hurricane-florence?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Hundreds of soldiers aided in Hurricane Florence rescue and recovery efforts, even as some saw their own homes flooded or evacuated. Specialist Ruben Alvarez is a parachute rigger at Fort Bragg. During the storm, he volunteered to help evacuate houses, efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 133325 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 14 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-earning-presidents-hundred-tab?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Specialist Jonathon Wannemacher is an infantryman in the 82nd Airborne. He’s also a skilled marksman. At age 26, he’s ranked as one of the top 100 competitive shooters in the country. He placed 81 out of roughly 1,200 shooters in the President’s Hundred efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 132964 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:13:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-ordinary-people-doing-extraordinary-things?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories The Base Realignment and Closure process of 2005 shut down 24 military installations across the country and consolidated many more. Fort Bragg grew as a result, adding the U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command. efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 132574 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 30 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-first-flight?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Bob Dean was a twenty-year-old rising senior at Cornell in 1950. When the Korean War started that summer, he was training with his ROTC class at Fort Bragg. “I recall for the early part of the training, we had a heck of a good time,” said Dean, now 88. efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 131800 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 23 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-checkpoints-went-overnight?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Growing up on Fort Bragg as the son of an active duty service member, Josh Groll saw the military installation as his home, a small town insulated from the rest of the world. efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 131563 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 09 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-time-stood-still?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories In the fall of 2001, Shelli Altopp-Miller was living with her husband and two small children at Pope Air Force Base. He was on active duty with the Air Force, she was a stay-at-home mother. efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 130801 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 02 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-square-peg-round-hole?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Steve Newsom and his wife Lynn spent five years as co-directors of Quaker House, the Fayetteville nonprofit that advocates for peace and supports service members who question their role in the military. As a young man growing up New Jersey, Steve thought efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 130424 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 26 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-he-stood-out-my-mind?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Mary Ellen Shugart served two tours as an Army nurse in Vietnam in the 1960s and early 70s. She treated hundreds of soldiers, but the memory of one young man at Fort Bragg stayed with her through the years. She recalled treating a soldier in the ICU and efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 130276 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/ft-bragg-stories-war-over?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ftbraggstories Bill Reid is 92 now, but back in 1944 he was just 18 when he was drafted to fight in World War II . He traveled by train from New Jerse y to Fort Bragg for 17 weeks of training before heading off to Europe . On his first day at Bragg, Reid recalled he was efriend@wunc.org (Elizabeth Friend) 129438 as https://wunc.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net Sun, 12 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000 North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC 240 no military, personal stories, north carolina, wunc North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC