The Back Brief

The Back Brief
CATEGORY: News
Hosted by Army combat veteran Rod Rodriguez and featuring the Connecting Vets team of reporters, The Back Brief is a weekly show featuring the top veteran stories of the week.
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Reddit vs Wall StreetThis week has been absolutely crazy for investors! Folks have jumped on the GameStop, AMC, and Black Berry bandwagons, but what does it mean for you? Before you go pulling out your TSP and life savings, give fi…
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VA is denied COVID vaccines, 21K Troops for DC, and…CV reporter Abbie Bennett takes us into some of this week's most important stories! Warp Speed denies the VA more COVID vaccines, 21,000 troops authorized to protect the Capital, and some news you might have mi…
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DC under siege, what happens next with Jack MurphyJack Murphy and Rod Rodriguez talk about the breaking story of the rioters breaching the Capitol floor and what this means for the country.Go to www.connectingvets.com for more stories about this national crise…
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Phil Briggs Has a Heart Attack, also ChristmasCV reporter and Navy veteran Phil Briggs almost died over the Thanksgiving holidays but he lived to tell the tale of his heart attack. Folks, go get your ticker checked and while you're checking things check ou…
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The Death of a Delta Force Operator is raising quest…CV reporter Jack Murphy takes us into the unfolding story of the death of Delta Force Operator Master Sgt. William J. Lavigne II. A tragic story with a past that involves another shooting, the death of a Green…
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The New Administration vs EVERYTHING, then Fort Hood…Darienne Page joins me on the show to talk about how the Biden administration will handle vaccines and whether troops will come home. We also talk about the role the military will play in the vaccine distributi…
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The KRAKEN is still in AIT and a Russian Gangster Ho…SUBSCRIBE BUTTON...HIT IT! CV reporter Jack Murphy brings us another 2020 story this time of retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney who is convinced that an Army AIT Battalion masterminded a Spec Ops raid in…
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Ex-Marines and a Porn Star Form 'Death Squad' & Oust…Connecting Vets reporters Jack Murphy and Abbie Bennett take us from the bizarre story of ex-Marines and a porn star forming an anti-BLM 'death squad' to ousted VA deputy secretary James Byrne speaks out about…
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VA COVID #'s UP, hospitalizations DOWN & Is Joe Bide…Connecting Vets Reporter Abbie Bennett takes us into the latest Veterans Affairs COVID numbers and the recent report on the continuing rise of veteran suicides.Then, former Senior Counsel to the Secretary of Ho…
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Election fraud, MG accident at Benning, and SECDEF i…This is The Back Brief where we cover the latest and greatest veteran news of the week so you don't miss a thing! On this episode:00:35 - What does Veterans Day mean to Veterans?8:00 - SECDEF is fired on Twitte…
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The Back Brief: Vet Vote 2020!Did you experience Voters Guilt after you hit the polls? Did you vote for a Veteran because they were a Veteran? Will this election year bring upon us the apocalypse??? Jack Murphy and Phil Briggs join me to ta…
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The DoD using WRONG explosive formulas for breaching…Former Ranger and Green Beret Jack Murphy joins me to talk about his investigation into the broken world of breaching in the Special Ops community that has far-reaching consequences. I was shocked to know how l…
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DoD Suicide Report and Racism at the VAConnecting Vets reporter Elizabeth Howe takes us through a new DoD report that might be pointing to COVID as a cause for a recent spike in suicides. Could isolation, fear, and travel restrictions be the cause o…
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4 Operators, A Mission, No One ReturnedConnecting Vets reporter Jack Murphy takes us inside the untold story of 4 CIA Maritime Branch Operators lost at sea during a top-secret mission. We go in-depth into who these men were, what they were trying to…
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Jack Murphy vs Twitter & The Reality of a Civil WarJack Murphy and Rod Rodriguez discuss the double standard that exists between Officer and Enlisted punishments for online bad behavior. Then we explore the world of vets that think there's a civil war coming an…
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Accidents, Base Names, and Suckers!Connecting Vets reporter Libby Howe (@ECBHowe) joins me to talk about her report on military training accidents, where we are in base name changes, the suicide of Army Veteran Ronnie Mcnutt, and what next after…
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How To Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the USPSConnecting Vets reporter and host of CBS Eye on Veterans, Phil Briggs, explains why absentee ballots will be perfectly safe going through the US Postal Service. He also offers us up one of his fail-proof ideas…
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Debbin Downer!This week on The Back Brief, Jack Murphy joins me to talk about the arrest of former SF soldier Peter Debbins accused of spying for Russia! We go into the heart of this story and what WE think this might actual…
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