Episode #46- Marine LtCol Mitch "Taco" Bell, Christian Davenport

On tonight's show we have arranged another awesome lineup. First up is LtCol Mitchell “Taco” Bell. Taco is a Marine reservist and the OIC of the South Central Texas Marine 4 Life program. We’ll talk with Taco about Marine 4 Life and also his experience while deployed to Afghanistan in 2008. He is also the author of the milblog Sandgram at http://www.thesandgram.com. Our second guest is Christian Davenport is a reporter on the Metropolitan staff of The Washington Post, covering regional military affairs. He was on a team of reporters that was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in National reporting for coverage of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. In 2007, he was awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in journalism and spent a month embedded with the Virginia Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment in Iraq. He then spent a year chronicling the lives of five of the unit’s soldiers returning to civilian life after the war. The stories of these five soldiers are featured in his book, As You Were: To War and Back with the Black Hawk Battalion of the Virginia National Guard, released June 1, 2009. His website can be found at http://www.christian-davenport.com.