The Grunt
Specialist Justis Turnbow — Infantryman. Two combat deployments. One to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. Served with 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division on a PSD team, where every mission came with long roads, uncertainty, and trust in the men and women beside you. After deployment, continued serving with 3rd Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, carrying forward the lessons, brotherhood, and experiences that only military life can give you.
From Andrews, Texas to combat zones and everything that came after, this podcast is built on real conversations — no scripts, no fake personalities, no pretending. Just stories from the infantry, life after service, hard lessons, dark humor, and the kinds of conversations that happen between people who’ve lived it.
HHC 1 STB 1BCT 4TH ID
This is our unit that we deployed under and why we were in the unique position to have infantry mixed with mps
Baghdad Iraq 2007 -2008
The Grunt worked special missions with elite units while the pig secured EOD
Kandahar Afghansitan 2010-2011
The Grunt was hard charging as the personal security detachement for the BN Commander while the Pig was QRF
THE PIG
The Pig — Kenneth Kelly
SGT Kenneth Kelly is a Military Police veteran out of Nunica, Michigan who spent 13 years serving with the 978th MP Company, 4th Infantry Division, NATO 217th MP Detachment, and JTF Bravo — collecting five deployments along the way, three combat and two humanitarian, including Baghdad during the surge and Kandahar.
He's the MP half of this operation. The one civilians look at and say "oh you guarded the gate right?" He did not guard the gate.
Since hanging up the uniform he's built two careers — one as a professional DJ and one as a branding agent, which means he knows exactly how a message should look, sound, and land. That's why this site looks the way it does.
He started this podcast because veterans deserve straight talk from people who were actually there — on benefits, on business, on mental health, and on the stories that never made the news. The Grunt and The Pig is that conversation.
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