Mason Rodrigue: Every Veteran Should Tell Their Story

Mason Rodrigue (pronounced "road rig") was born in southern Louisiana and grew up playing football and seeking self-validation as a man. This desire, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, led him to enlist in the US Marine Corps and eventually his service in Syria as a machine gunner. Mason left the Marine Corps as a lance corporal and began to put his thoughts into the printed word. He is the author of Rock Eater, a collection of his poetry and thoughts about philosophy and military life that describes "what happens when a man gets turned into a weapon and aimed at nothing." Like many veterans, Mason finds writing about his experiences to be therapeutic, noting that in the shared veteran experience, "every story is different, but every story is the same."

From southern Louisiana to college to the Marine Corps, and then Syria and back again, these... are Mason Rodrigue's Battlefields.

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Show Notes:

0331: Marine Corps enlisted career code for machine gunner

Dead Reckoning Collective

LAW: Light Anti-Tank Weapon

M2: .50 caliber heavy machine gun

Ma Deuce: M2 heavy machine gun

Mark19: M19 heavy automatic grenade launcher

NJP: Non-Judicial Punishment, administrative military justice

Patrol Base Abbate

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