Reunion reminder and August meeting notice [13:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In this episode, we deliver 2 items of news to the local chapter:

(1) Notice of the chapter meeting scheduled for Saturday, 2 August 2008, at 18:00 hrs. at the meeting room of the complex located at 7707 IH-35 South, Austin, Texas 78744.

The topics to be discussed are given in the audio file of the podcast episode.

Please confirm your attendance with the Commander or XO. And, if you have any questions or need directions, please contact either:

Commander: Bobby Briscoe –

Telephone:
(512) 804-0789

or

Executive Officer: John Torres –Telephone: (210) 849-5732

(2) The second item discusses a reminder of the upcoming event, the Combat Infantrymen’s Association National Convention at the Academy Best Western Hotel, Colorado Springs, Colorado from October 9-12, 2008.

A brief synopsis of the agenda items for the days of the event–as well as registration details–are mentioned. We hope to have a good presence at this annual event of the organization. We also plan to propose some suggestions for this event, as well as the local chapter. Please plan on attending the meeting, as we will vote on these issues.

For more details and registration forms for the upcoming Combat Infantrymen’s Association National Conventionk please refer to pages 15 to 18 in the newsletter of The Blue Badge. If you wish to view the pdf document of the May, 2008, edition, then please click here:

Or you may go to the web site of the CIB Association and get all the issues availabale of the newsletter, including back issues, and especially the May, 2008, issue of the Blue Badge.

We will be posting another espisode during the week of August 4-8, with a summary of the meeting scheduled for 2 August 2008.

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 Standard Podcast [25:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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In this podcast episode for this post of the Austin, Texas, Chapter of the Combat Infantrymen’s Association, we present the first part an interview with the Chapter Commander (Bobby Briscoe) and the Executive Officer or XO (John Torres). This interview took place on 25 April 2008 and was conducted by Fred Castaneda, the Public Affairs Officer for the chapter.

(Below: Bobby Briscoe, Commander, and John Torres, Executive Officer, of the Austin Chapter of the CIA)

In this discussion, we examine the motivation and dedication of the individuals who earned the CIB to start the Combat Infantrymen’s Association Chapter in Austin, Texas. This chapter is one of many and belongs to the National organization of the Combat Infantrymen’s Association. We also investigate exactly what the CIB award is, how it is earned, and what it really means to those who have earned and received it.

John Torres (the Chapter XO) states candidly that if people know what it took to earn the CIB, then the respect and honor due to the combat infantryman will be given, and there will be a more meaningful appreciation for the sacrifices made by that individual.

In addition, Bobby Briscoe also describes the programs that the chapter will establish to help those returning infantryman who have earned their CIB in the Middle East in the current OEF/OIF campaigns. In addition to greeting the troops upon their return from overseas, these other programs will include both assistance in communication and moral support for the families of any disadvantaged veteran after returning. Also, programs to help the children of the CIB veterans will be created.

The discussion continues in the next episode and post, with the conclusion giving honor and respect to the Combat Infantryman. Please find out more about the CIB Association chapter in Austin and other cities by listening to this interview.

Copyright (c) 2008, Matrix Solutions Corporation and the CIB Association- Austin, Texas, Chapter.

 

 A Special Foreward to the Audio version of the Book - by Fred Castaneda [6:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

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This is the first episode of the Austin Chapter of the national organization known as the Combat Infantrymen’s Association.

In memory of the Combat Infantrymen who fought, died or were injured or MIA during the Vietnam war, Bobby Briscoe (who is commander of the Austin chapter – Southern Branch) has written a book that was completed in 1996 called Vietnam- The Jungle Warriors, a True Story.

This book by Bobby Briscoe, will soon be available in audio form. It will be available in an audio podcast format, with individual 1-to-1 RSS feeds to each individual who would want to subscribe to it.

This mp3 audio episode gives you the special Foreward to the audio version of the book by Fred Castaneda, a former combat infantryman (who was the “pig-man” or the m.60 machine-gunner) during the Vietnam War who was also in the Americal Division (with the 4/31st Infantry of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade) and who also served in the Quang Ngai province of I Corps in South Vietnam. The beginning of this Foreward contains a 60-second audio clip from the recorded video prologue of a dramatic work called Tracers, which was performed at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, in 2002–and this play was a story of a combat infantry line unit and the Vietnam experience.

Fred delivered both the prologue and epilogue to the dramatic stage play; his photo is shown, below, while he was in Chu Lai inbetween missions in “the bush.”

As you will hear, this foreward and the book are both dedicated to those brothers-in-arms of all the campaigns since World War II who have earned the Combat Infantryman’s Badge (CIB), especially those during the Vietnam War.

You can hear a brief summary of the book, which also serves as a podcast promo:

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To learn more about the book or how to get it via audio download on the Internet or in paperback hardcopy, please click here for the web page of The Jungle Warriors- A True Story or visit

http://www.junglewarriors.org

Copyright (c) 2008, Matrix Solutions Corporation and Bobby Briscoe. All Rights Reserved.