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Veterans of Color

Black History Month & Military Culture

  • S1E2
  • 1:12:00
  • August 29th 2024

This episode of VOC Veterans of Color, we discuss the different unscripted meanings of Black History Month and much, much more. Mike Kim, VOC Show Host, and John Winn Bey, a legend in the Special Operations community (US Marine Force Reconnaissance Man 0321P/Ranger), have a discussion about life in relation to the myths and realities of race in the military. This is a candid chat about the military seldom discussed in the headlines. 

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Veterans of Color

Veterans Of Color Podcast (VOC) a podcast that dives into the cultural and historical realities of people of color within the United States Military.

Join your host, Mike Kim, a veteran and an independent military culture researcher at Columbia University, as he explores the rich contributions, complexities, paradoxes, and challenges of these extraordinary individuals and events often forgotten in military history.

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Mike Kim
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Mike Kim is a psychoanalyst, ex-monk, combat veteran and retired US Department of Veterans Affairs Vet Center site director/lead war trauma readjustment counselor with more than 20,000 clinical hours in facilitating war trauma therapy. He has helped veterans, active/reserve military personnel and their families since the early 1990’s. Mike began his military service in 1986 and he has intermittently served in the U.S. military through 2009.

Mike is a graduate of Norwich University – The Military College of Vermont, Yale University, and the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. He is passionate about his research in war trauma/readjustment and veteran/military culture from an interdisciplinary cultural studies approach at Teachers College, Columbia University as a doctoral candidate. Google “Mike Kim Veteran” to learn more about war and veteran culture.