Ghosts of Arlington Podcast

Jan 20 2025 151 ep. 32 mins 11

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If you've ever walked the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, you've heard the voices of the past. Even if you haven't, you can still hear them in podcast form. A history podcast about Arlington National Cemetery and the stories of those buried there, with new episodes available first thing every Monday morning.

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#147: The Mayaguez Incident: The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part VII

Jan 20 2025 49 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here This week we finally see the end of the Mayaguez Incident play out but not before a chaotic evacuation causes Marines to be abandoned on the battlefield. An incident that still causes embarrassment today. The introduction and transition music heard on the podcast is composed and recorded by the eldest Ghosts of Arlington, Jr. Whi

#146: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties of Vietnam, Part VI

Jan 13 2025 28 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here The crew of the SS Mayaguez is released by the Khmer Rouge, but it was too late to stop the US rescue attempt. Now President Ford wants to full out the troops, but since information flowed a lot slower in 1975 than it does in 2025, the second wave of US Marines was already on site. Will they follow presidential orders or will the

Podcast Announcement

Dec 30 2024 4 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here Surgery on Christmas Eve is never fun - unexpected emergency surgery on Christmas Eve is even worse. Listen for more. Happy New Year, everyone! The introduction and transition music heard on the podcast is composed and recorded by the eldest Ghosts of Arlington, Jr. While the rest of his catalogue is quite different from what he'

#145: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part V

Dec 23 2024 28 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here As things get worse on the beaches, we'll look at what was going on with the crew, the ship itself, and the folks back in Washington, DC trying to run the show from there. If you said Ford was probably trying to run the ordeal in the midst of a state dinner for the Dutch prime minister as a joke. Well, I've got some bad news for

#144: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam

Dec 16 2024 25 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here Bad intelligence plus bad timing equals a bad plan. Last week we saw the bad intelligence when no photos of the objective were available so the Marine making the plan flew over the site at 4500 feet with his personal 35mm camera. This week we see the bad timing I've been eluding to. The bad intelligence and bad timing come togeth

#143: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part III

Dec 09 2024 24 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here US reconnaissance planes lost track of the Mayaguez crew when the trawler they were on arrived at the port of Kompong Som on mainland Cambodia. Because of that, US planners continued to plan for a rescue under the assumption that the crew was split between the Mayaguez itself and Koh Tang island and their estimate of how many Khm

#142: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part II

Dec 02 2024 31 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here As the first day of the Mayaguez Incident was coming to a close, US officials were gathering Marines from The Philippines and Okinawa for a potential rescue attempt. The Seventh Air Force commander, on the ground in Thailand, tried to include his airmen but that... well, that did not go well. As the second day of the incident daw

#141: The Mayaguez Incident - The Last American Casualties in Vietnam, Part I

Nov 25 2024 31 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here The last US combat units left South Vietnam on March 29, 1973. The last US embassy personnel were dramatically evacuated on April 30, 1975, the same day that the People's Army of Vietnam entered the city, signaling the defeat of South Vietnam and the reunification of the country by the Northern communists. But those considered th

#140: Honored Returns

Oct 21 2024 37 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is the federal agency responsible for recovering the remains of previously missing in action service members and identifying them and each year DPAA strikes hundreds of names from the rolls of the missing. This weeks Ghosts of Arlington are: Army Private First Class Alfred Bordeau - Me

#139: The King of Swing, Part II

Oct 14 2024 45 mins

I'd love to hear your thoughts - send me a text here Glenn Miller was only in charge of the Army Air Forces band for a little over a year and a half, but in that time he changed the way people thought about military bands, challenged the way traditional marches were performed, and above all else, went out of his way to bring a little bit of home to US military personnel that were s