The Karol Markowicz Show: From Army to the Pentagon: Mike Glenn on Military Service, Media, AI & Life Lessons

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this conversation, Mike Glenn, Pentagon reporter for The Washington Times, shares his remarkable journey from serving in the U.S. Army to reporting from inside the Pentagon. Glenn reflects on how his military background shaped his approach to journalism, offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at defense reporting and life inside one of the world’s most powerful institutions.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed human.
0:10.6	Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHartRadio.
0:14.8	My guest today is Mike Glenn.
0:17.1	Mike is a Pentagon reporter for the Washington Times.
0:20.6	Hi, Mike. So nice to have Washington Times. Hi, Mike.
0:21.1	So nice to have you on.
0:22.5	Hello, Carol.
0:23.3	Good to see you finally.
0:24.5	I've known your work for so long, and I would love to know more about you.
0:29.4	So how did you become a Pentagon reporter?
0:32.7	How does one do that?
0:34.7	Well, I backed into this.
0:36.5	This is actually my third career. I was in the Army for a long
0:42.2	time, quite a long time. And that was, you know, I enlisted right after high school, went into the
0:49.0	Army, went to Germany during the height of the Cold War. Reginald was president at the time.
0:53.7	There were two Germany's, the wall was up and all that kind of stuff. High of the Cold War, Reginal was president at the time. There were two Germany's, the wall was up and all that kind of stuff.
0:57.5	High of the Cold War, terrorists and everything.
0:59.7	I got out, went to college, then came back in the Army as an officer
1:04.9	because I went to ROTC, got my information.
1:07.9	And I ended up staying another four or five years in after that, went to the Gulf War.
1:14.0	I was a platoon leader and a tank unit.
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