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Written by Toby Nunn
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Monday, 15 December 2008 19:30 |
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Here is a link to an interview I did with News Blaze, it was hosted by Talking with Heroes, Bob Calvert. Bob is a patriot that has pretty much given up everything he has personally to fund his project of telling Soldiers Stories. He has traveled to Iraq several times in an effort to tell this untold stories and to get them right from the mouths of the very people participating. It is a very noble cause and mission and I was honored to be asked to speak with him. It was not my typical studio interview but it was cool cause I brought my good friend Kyle along to participate as well. So with out further audeau from the a room in the JW Marriott in Washington DC here is this little tidbit. News Blaze and Talking With Heroes |
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Written by Toby Nunn
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 04:30 |
Canadian kid a hero in Uncle Sam's war
Canwest News Service
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Byline: Richard Foot
Source: Canwest News Service
As a kid growing up in British Columbia, Toby Nunn never imagined he'd join the army, go to war, or become a celebrity - let alone one of the most famous non-commissioned soldiers to serve with American forces in Iraq.
``I never thought of myself as a warrior,'' he says. ``I was just a scrawny kid from the bush up in Canada. All I knew growing up, is that I didn't want to end up being a figure skater.''
Nunn, 33, shot to fame in the United States this year as the star of Bad Voodoo's War, a groundbreaking film from Iraq, broadcast to wide acclaim on PBS Television's Frontline documentary program in April.
The film, which continues to attract viewers online, was hailed by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, which said it showed ``a very different view of the war than you'll see on the nightly news.''
During the U.S. military ``surge'' in 2007, Nunn and his platoon wired up their humvees with video cameras from PBS, and filmed their mission escorting convoys of supplies, and dodging suicide bombers and IEDs, across the war-torn countryside.
The result is a haunting, soldier's-eye view of an unpopular war and a moving portrait of courage by young men doing their nation's business in a distant and dangerous land.
The documentary, which aired in the middle of Nunn's deployment, not only made him a minor hero and the toast of the U.S. military-blogging community, it also got him into trouble with some of his superiors, who opened a criminal investigation into the affair from which Nunn - now home - has only recently been absolved.
``Toby's had a full and adventurous life, not without its complications and hiccups,'' says his father Dale Nunn, who still lives in Terrace, B.C.
``It looks like he's going to be able to come out of this (army investigation) without a big black mark on his career.''
Toby Nunn left Canada as a teenager and moved to Alaska with his mother after his parents split up. He planned to attend the University of British Columbia after high school in Anchorage, but instead, got offered a job at a golf course in Florida, where he later met a pair of players who happened to be recruiters for the U.S. army.
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Written by Toby Nunn
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Monday, 29 September 2008 18:07 |
Defense establishment opens arms to military bloggers
By CHRIS VAUGHN
To understand how established military blogs have become in the halls of the Defense Department, just check Army Secretary Pete Geren's computer.
Geren, a Fort Worth native who assumed the top civilian post in the Army last year, browses several each morning, just as he reads coverage of the Army in the nation's major daily newspapers.
"It's part of my effort to understand what is going on in the communications domain, particularly for the age group that is the heart and soul of our Army," Geren said during a phone interview as he returned from a recent trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Written by Toby Nunn
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 08:00 |
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Just wanted to share with you a link to a post I made that has seemed to take on a life of its own. I wrote it a while back but it keeps going around so might as well help it eh? Siagon Reporting Link |
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