COL Jack Thomas Tomarchio: Military Lawyer During the Invasion of Grenada

Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories

Robert Kirk

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4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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COL Tomarchio talks about going to jump school, defending service members as a military lawyer, and nearly losing his life in Iraq. Jack Thomas Tomarchio served in the army as a JAG officer in Grenada in the early 80s. As a JAG officer, he provided legal advice to senior Army officials and represented servicemembers in a variety of misconduct and court martial cases. He was a paratrooper, and attended both jump school and law school. Later, in the early 90s, COL Tomarchio deployed to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the Gulf War. There, he nearly lost his life after saving a fellow service member from a burning vehicle. If you like Warriors In Their Own Words, check out the Medal of Honor Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.5	I'm Ken Harbaugh, host of Warriors in Their Own Words.
1:13.3	In partnership with the Honor Project, we've brought this podcast back at a time when our nation needs these stories more than ever.
1:21.3	Warriors in their own words is our attempt to present an unvarnished, unsanitized truth of what we have asked of those who defend this
1:28.6	nation. Thank you for listening, and by doing so honoring those who have served. Today, we'll hear
1:35.6	from Colonel Jack Thomas Tamarcio. Tamarcio served in the army as a JAG officer in Grenada in the early
1:41.0	80s, and also deployed to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the Gulf War.
1:46.6	My name is Jack Thomas de Marchio.
1:49.5	I retired from the United States Army and the Army Reserve in 2010 with the rank of Colonel
1:56.2	06.4.
1:57.8	I had a fairly, I guess, a little different kind of career. I started out through ROTC.
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