Dragon Talk: #353 - Glenn Goddard, Brigadier General (Retired), US Army

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🗓️ 30 June 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Glenn Goddard is a retired Brigadier General in the US Army. Glenn started playing D&D back in 1976 when there were only five rule books for the game. He was a Forever DM through high school and college. After college he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Private but worked his way up to Brigadier General over a 35-year career. Twice deployed to Iraq, he even played D&D in a war zone as a break from 90-hour work weeks. Glenn received numerous awards including the Bronze Star, Defense Service Medal, Parachutist Badge and the Sapper Tab. He retired from the Army in 2020 and now enjoys spending more time playing D&D and painting miniatures. Glen talks with Greg and Shelly about why D&D appeals to military members, how playing in the military used to be much more difficult and how he rose from private to General Officer and how D&D played a role in that.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dragon Talk everyone!
0:07.0	Dragon Talk everyone!
0:08.0	Yay!
0:10.0	I am very excited for this, the official Dungeons and Dragons podcast. I'm Greg Tito and that's
0:15.9	Shelly Masinobel. Hi!
0:18.7	Hi! How you doing? Rockin and rolling.
0:23.0	All right.
0:25.0	We got a really good episode today we're talking to the highest ranking D&D fan in the US Army
0:33.9	according to him anyway
0:35.8	is this the highest ranking uh...
0:40.0	the guest that we've ever had
0:41.8	i believe so i think okay the only other people I know who have been in the military have been
0:46.2	in the military have been not a general right well mean, he is already very decorated, but I do think that that's another distinction we can add.
1:01.0	Maybe we need to give away some dragon talk metals.
1:04.0	Ooh that's a great idea. Yeah I like it.
1:08.0	Well you get the medal of drunky and it's it's like a picture of you upending a wine skin.
1:15.0	Nice.
1:17.0	Very decorated in the art of upending wine skins.
1:21.0	The order of drunky. I want to be a member of that order.
1:25.0	You absolutely can and you should definitely start working towards that metal while my dad is
1:32.0	visiting. He is here from the lovely East Coast
1:37.0	and spending time in West Seattle with me and the fam in his little rental house.
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