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Comedy
Welcome to Barracks Stories, hosted by US Navy Veteran Alan Murphy (@MrAlanMurphy). We've all heard military veterans share their story in some bar or at a gathering with friends and family. On this monthly podcast you will find candid conversations with military veterans about their funny, memorable and hilarious moments from the barracks, training and deployment. More information and content from the podcast can be found on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (@BarracksStories).
Location:
United States
Description:
Welcome to Barracks Stories, hosted by US Navy Veteran Alan Murphy (@MrAlanMurphy). We've all heard military veterans share their story in some bar or at a gathering with friends and family. On this monthly podcast you will find candid conversations with military veterans about their funny, memorable and hilarious moments from the barracks, training and deployment. More information and content from the podcast can be found on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (@BarracksStories).
Twitter:
@BarracksStories
Language:
English
Contact:
4846147108
Email:
MrAlanPMurphy@gmail.com
Episodes
Naval Special Warfare, 9/11, and becoming a Seabee - Jose Roman
2/15/2019
Jose Roman joined the active duty on September 11, 1991. He eventually transitioned to the Naval Reserve in 1995 working with Naval Special Warfare. After the 9/11 attack, he went back in active duty after 10 years to support the global war on terror. Things got a bit emotional when he shared that he lost his parents at such a young age. He was still in his junior year when his dad died. Soon after, his mother passed away before his senior year. Jose mentioned that he decided to join the...
Duration:00:55:02
Barracks Parties, West Point and Being an Orphan - Wesley Wilson
2/1/2019
Wesley Wilson served in the United States Army as a Military Police officer in South Korea and the United States Military Academy from 2012-2017. He is now a senior at Fordham studying organizational leadership and serves as the President of the Fordham Veterans Association. Military heritage runs through his family. His uncles were Vietnam veterans and his dad was a Desert Storm veteran as well. He admittedly shared that this played a role on why he decided to join the military. He shared...
Duration:00:58:35
Scorpion Fights, Highway of Death, & Panama Invasion - Mark Otto
1/26/2019
Mark Otto is a two-time combat veteran. During his four years in the Marine Corps, he played a key role serving on a five-man intelligence gathering team under the second surveillance reconnaissance and intelligence group. He deployed to the Panama Invasion, Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and joint task force six. In this episode, he shared how he always wanted to join the military ever since he was a kid. Being the fifth in his family who not only served in the military but was...
Duration:00:59:44
Headstrong Project, Bronze Star and Swimming in Poop - Dustin Shryock
1/2/2019
Dustin is from a military family, a family whose service in the military goes all the way back to the revolutionary. While his dad doesn’t really want him to join the military because there was a heated war going on back then, he always knew that he wanted to join the military even if he’s unsure as to why exactly. One conversation with a general definitely stuck to him when the general said that joining the military is going to be both the greatest and the hardest thing that he could ever...
Duration:01:13:42
Share Your War Story - Alan Murphy
12/27/2018
Duration:00:09:03
Friendly Fire, Strippers, and Accidental Discharge - Michael Carrasquillo
11/4/2018
Michael was born in New York by a poor teenage single mom. Growing up, he remembered bouncing around the neighborhood a lot from Manhattan, to Bronx, to Queens, but mostly Manhattan. Growing up in the said neighborhood, he admitted that he was a troubled kid, a very bad child to put it simply. He admitted to being a selfish little *hole, he was always very hyper and he is definitely the kind of kid to always start a trouble. A lot of people didn’t think he could even finish school. In his...
Duration:01:34:00
Seal Team Six, Veterans and Fist Fighting to Leadership - Mike Dolce
10/13/2018
Mike Dolce is a navy vet who joined prior to 9/11. He was a Seabee who built things all over the world before ending up at Seal Team Six in support capacity. When asked what made him want to join the military, he stated that want is such a strong word and straight up said that he did not want to join the military, initially. Mike shared that he was a troubled teenager, he smoked a lot of pot and have disrespected his parents a lot. In an effort to straighten his ways up, his dad sat him...
Duration:01:24:25
Peep Holes, Brain Injury, and Breaking the Sound Barrier - Amanda Burrill
9/14/2018
Amanda, daughter of a vet and an immigrant, joined the military “mostly” because her father told her he wasn’t paying for college. She shares a funny story about pissing him off before heading to college, not necessarily disclosing she’d rescinded her Academy appointment in lieu of NROTC. In college, as a midshipman, she had way more fun than anyone in the actual fleet ever will, especially playing “Goose” in the backseat of F-14 Tomcats for a summer cruise. She was commissioned in May of...
Duration:01:06:10
Pearl Harbor, Atomic Bomb Testing and Hurricane Hunting - Fred Lynch (WW2 Veteran)
7/27/2018
In this week’s episode, we have Fred Lynch – 95 year old U.S. Navy veteran. He served for seven years as a radioman and was present during some historic moments in our history – Pearl Harbor bombings, testing atomic bombs, and hurricane hunting. Fred Lynch enlisted in Feb 1941 and went to Bootcamp in September at Newport, Rhode Island by train. He thrived in the 6-week Boot Camp and went to Aviation Radio School in Jacksonville, Florida. His experience there was the same as his Boot Camp...
Duration:00:52:15
Barracks Stories Podcast Trailer
7/8/2018
Hey, I’m Alan Murphy and I’m a former US Navy Aircrewman and rescue swimmer that served from 2005-2010. I started this podcast because I wanted to hear stories that nobody gets to hear. My transition was and still is a challenge every single day. I thought about ending my life (and occasionally still do) but what has helped is listening and talking to other veterans about their experiences in the military. Here is just a sample of some of those stories. Veterans all have funny and...
Duration:00:03:04
Valium, Monkeys and Benghazi Attack - Kirsten Battocchio
7/3/2018
Kristen Battocchio is a Marine Corps veteran who served 1 and a half years in Japan before transferring to embassy duty in Sri Lanka, Uganda, and Barbados. She graduated high school in 2008, but chose to go to college for a year in Manhatanville. She did great but came to a point where she could no longer afford to continue and was bored. She decided to look into state colleges and eventually decided to go to University of Connecticut. She already arranged everything down to the down...
Duration:01:21:08
Guantanamo Bay, Recruiting and Pork MREs - John Andre
6/26/2018
In this week’s episode of our 2-part series, we have John Andre. John recently retired from the military after 23 years of service of which 10 years are of active duty and 13 years reserved status. John was born and raised in Cuba and they migrated to the United States. He’s the first one in the family to join the military and was inspired by a Marine stationed in the American consulate in the Swiss embassy when his parents were processing their papers. He said to himself “When I make it...
Duration:00:51:24
Meth, Welcome Home Cake and Modeling Jeans - Damien Bertolo
5/6/2018
Our guest for this week is Damien B., a Senior Consulting Analyst at Accenture, a Marine veteran, and a friend of mine. Damien was a commissioned and enlisted officer in the US Marine Corps from April 2003 to November 2012. He is currently a volunteer at The FourBlock Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that equips veterans to advance their careers. FourBlocks semester-long, university-accredited career readiness program provides professional development, career exploration,...
Duration:01:37:36
Dysentery and the Red Light District in Germany - James Fitzgerald
4/26/2018
Our guest for this week is James Fitzgerald, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant veteran. James has an interesting back story. He joined the military at the age of 19 to gain connection in the world and said that the quickest way to gain connection to the world is thru service. He started his 16-week bootcamp at Fort Ben from basic training to AIT. During his AIT days, it was a relentless barrage of trainings and drills. It even came to a point where he even dream about those drills at night. After...
Duration:01:05:34
Dedicated to the 2004 West Point Class - Frank Aburto
3/10/2018
Our guest for this week is my friend Frank Aburto - a Senior Manager focusing on Financial Planning and Analysis for Audible, the world's largest provider of audio-books. Frank grew up with a family who served in the military. He joined in 2000 when he went to West Point and took East Asian Studies & Mandarin Chinese. He chose to go the officer route instead of ROTC or enlisting during high school because he wanted to have something else in case he wanted to get out of the military. After...
Duration:00:57:00
Sexual Misconduct and Spiderman - Tom Smoot
2/15/2018
Tom Smoot – Chief Executive Officer of Lift and Shift Foundation, a foundation dedicated to providing veterans with science and technology activities deployed as an alternative therapy setting, geared towards building confidence and developing problem solving skills. Tom served in the military for 12 years as a staff sergeant mostly in civil affairs, and briefly as a chemical reconnaissance soldier. He’s been deployed in various countries such as Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan. He moved...
Duration:01:06:24
How to Part a Protesting Crowd in Bahrain - Raphael Harry
2/9/2018
On this episode of Barracks Stories, I talk to a Navy veteran buddy of mine. He immigrated from Nigeria in late 2007 at the age of 25, unsure about what to do for work or school once he was in the States. At the encouragement of his cousin who was in the Navy, he started looking into joining the Army because he didn’t know how to swim. His mother objected to this idea strongly, not wanting to send her youngest son off to the Middle East, so he decided to follow his cousin’s lead and join...
Duration:00:49:22