Gene Valentino, Michael Yon & Rick Ahlstrom on State of the Nation - 21 March 2024

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: The GrassRoots TruthCast, created by former Escambia County Florida Commissioner Gene Valentino, is a weekly broadcast from Pensacola, Florida. Gene, an investment entrepreneur and avid pilot, is a founding member of VeriJet charter aviation and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. When he’s not in studio, Gene can usually be found in the skies over the Gulf of Mexico piloting his ICON A5. Twitter/X: @GeneValentino

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Michael Yon is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the invasion of Iraq. Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with American and British troops in Iraq, most prominently a deployment with the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment (Deuce Four) of the 25th Infantry Division in Mosul, Iraq that ended in September 2005.

GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Rick Ahlstrom, is a Retired Police Chief working as Law Enforcement for over 34 years. He also served in the National Guard for 8 years. In his retirement Rick speaks out about the issues America and Law Enforcement is facing today.