Pillar III: No Veteran Left Behind
No one who served should be discarded.
Episodes on Pillar III: No Veteran Left Behind.
Left Behind: April Watkins on Losing Godfrey Wade to Deportation
With April Watkins
April Watkins speaks out about what happened to her fiance Godfrey Wade, an Army veteran and green card holder who lived in Georgia for 50 years before a 2025 traffic stop put him in ICE custody on a 2014 removal order. He was deported in February 2026. Katie Chorbak, Carl Able, Lisa Wohlrab, and Bryan Winter walk through detention conditions, the bail system, and where the appeal stands.
Armed Men at the Polls
General Dan Caine told Senator Elissa Slotkin in writing that no federal troops or federalized National Guard will be sent to polling places for the midterms. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin added that agents could still respond to a threat, and the panel worked the gap between those two statements. They also covered roughly $40 million in unspent election security money at DHS and the extended USS Abraham Lincoln deployment.
SITREP: The Checks Aren't Checking
Tim Boivin, Bryan Winter and guest panelist Frank Stolba, a Navy and intelligence community veteran and attorney, worked a hard news week. They covered the USS Abraham Lincoln approaching 300 days at sea with no port calls and sailors reporting suicidal ideation, the USS George Washington leaving the Western Pacific without a carrier behind it, reporting on the intelligence behind a secret presidential flight, and the loss of roughly 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones.
SITREP: The Kuwait Drone Attack, USS Lincoln Families, and Birthright Citizenship
The week worked pillar by pillar: the Democratic investigation into the Iranian drone attack that killed six US troops at Shuaiba in Kuwait, pressure on the Strait of Hormuz, USS Lincoln families confronting acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, the Senate panel vote to hold Fauci in contempt, and the birthright citizenship orders. Tim Boivin, former Stars and Stripes Wurzburg bureau chief, sits on the panel.
Back in the Pit: Three Pillars, Panelist's Choice
No guest and no script. Steph Money and John Moses took apart the Take Care of America's Veterans Act and its Section 108 cuts to tinnitus and sleep apnea ratings, the split between the American Legion and the VFW, and the discharge petition for the Major Richard Star Act sitting three signatures short. They also covered the SAVE Act riding on the FY27 NDAA and the 239 deported veterans counted by the National Immigration Forum.
Post Mission Analysis: Freedom Over Fascism
With Chris Koepp
An after action review of the July 4 Freedom Over Fascism march in Philadelphia, where roughly 650 veterans from 50501 Veterans, About Face, Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace marched unpermitted in 105 degree heat. Carl Able, Bryan Winter and Chris Koepp walked through planning, peacekeepers, police conduct and coalition friction, then turned to election defense, the SAVE Act, and the ICE reversal on traffic stops.
Deported Veterans: Army Veteran Dee James on America Deporting Its Own
With Danitza-Dee James
Army veteran and advocate Dee James joins Katie Chorbak, Sam Gibbons, and Carl Able to explain what happens to the veterans this country deports: recruiters who promised citizenship, a naturalization pipeline that never delivered, and a government that does not track how many veterans it has removed.