Doug Bradley
Doug Bradley is a distinguished lecturer emeritus at UW-Madison who co-authored We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, named the Best Music Book of 2015 by Rolling Stone magazine. According to David Martin, Emmy-award winning correspondent for CBS News, Doug’s latest book, Who’ll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America, “uses music to bring us together after a war that so bitterly divided us.”
After graduation from college in 1969, Doug was drafted into the U. S. Army in March 1970. He served at the Army’s Hometown News Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and as a combat correspondent with the U. S. Army Republic of Vietnam headquarters at Long Binh, South Vietnam, from November 1970-November 1971. He relocated to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1974 where he helped establish Vets House, a storefront, community-based service center for Vietnam era veterans. He worked for more than three decades as a communications professional for the University of Wisconsin.
Doug has blogged for PBS’s Next Avenue.org and The Huffington Post and is the author of three books grounded in the Vietnam era, including DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle (2012). From 2008-2016, he and UW-Madison Professor Craig Werner, co-author of We Gotta Get Out of This Place, taught a very popular UW course entitled “The U. S. in Vietnam: Music, Media, and Mayhem.”
Laura Colbert
Laura is a mother of three wonderful kids and many pets, a wife to a supportive husband, an outdoor and adventure enthusiast, a traveler, an avid reader, a member of many different boards and committees, consultant, professional speaker, and Parks and Rec Director for the City of Waupaca. Laura attended UW-Madison from 2000-2006 and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Kinesiology. She concurrently served in the Army National Guard from March 2001-2009 as a Military Police Officer. Laura deployed to Baghdad, Iraq from March 2003 to July 2004. After graduating from UW-Madison, Laura taught Physical Education in Aylesbury, England in 2007.
In 2008, she worked as an Activities Director in Fargo, ND for individuals with special needs.
Laura worked as a physical education teacher and Dean of Students at Madison West High School from 2008-2017. She received a master’s in Educational Leadership through Cardinal Stritch in 2011 and a master’s in Experiential Education from UW-LaCrosse in 2012. She assumed the role of Waupaca Middle School Principal from 2017 to 2021 and is now the City of Waupaca Parks and Rec Director.
Award-winning author of “How to Pee Standing Up/Sirens: An alarming memoir of combat and coming back home,” with appearances on PBS, Veteran Radio, NPR, and a variety of podcasts.
David Green
Enlisted as an infantryman in 1984, was commissioned as a Military Intelligence officer in 1992 upon graduation from the University of Southern Colorado and retired in 2006. Supported wartime efforts as an advisor training warfighter staffs deploying to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. Served on the Warrior Training Alliance contract management team that trained the Afghan Army and Police to take over the security of their own country. Served as State Adjutant for the Wisconsin VFW from 2017-2022.
Timothy La Sage
First Sergeant Timothy La Sage served in the United States Marine Corps over 22 active-duty years. Tim has earned two Purple Heart medals for wounds received in combat, two medals for valor in combat, and two additional medals for life saving actions.
Tim has served in many units to include an Anti-Terrorism unit, a Marine Raider Special Operations Capable small boat unit which deployed alongside SEAL Team 5 during September 11th, 2001, and also a Joint Task Force deployed as contingency support during Operation Geronimo in 2011 supporting SEAL Team 6. He has been featured in several books such as “Triggermen” and “The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told” as well as the History Channel’s “Sniper: Bulletproof”.
Since retirement, La Sage has been called upon by the White House and Secret Service to drive presidential motorcade details for both the President and Vice President of the United States, members of congress, and does personal security detail work for VIP’s when available. Tim also works for WPS Health Solutions as the Military Affairs Manager as well as a board member for the Navy Marine Corps Retiree Council, Fisher House Wisconsin, Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation, and the University of Wisconsin’s Missing in Action Recovery and Identification Project
Dan Naylor
A resident of Waupaca County Wisconsin, along with his wife Mary, Dan is a father of 3 children – 2 of whom are Iraq War Veterans, and grandfather of 7. Although retired he continues to serve others in various volunteer capacities promoting the benefit of “playing well with others”. After serving as a Military Police Officer in the Army on active duty from 1971 to 1973 and in the reserves until being honorably discharged in 1977, Dan spent over 44 years in Human Services. In 1974 Dan assisted in the establishment of Vets House, a service center for Vietnam Veterans in Madison. During his tenure at Vets House, Dan helped expand the incarcerated veterans outreach program statewide as well as helping develop the Attic Correctional Halfway House, which he also directed. For 10 years he was the Director of a three-county alcohol and other drug abuse and mental health treatment agency including a residential center for youth. Dan helped create and direct PTSD treatment services for veterans in northern Wisconsin under contract with the VA. For the next 25 years Dan, as owner of White Pine Consulting Service, supported Wisconsin counties and tribal communities in the development and expansion of collaborative systems of care for children and adults with special needs and their families. Training topics included team building, group facilitation, conflict management, leadership, and strategic planning. He served on the Wisconsin Board of Veterans Affairs for 5 years and continues to support Veterans – especially at the Veterans Home at King as a volunteer. He is a life member of the Vietnam Veterans of America. Dan has a master’s degree in public administration.
Andrew Wentworth
Andrew is a former Marine infantryman. From 2000 to 2005 he served in Madison’s own Golf Company, part of the ‘Mad Ghost’ 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment. During this time, he attended School of Infantry at Camp Pendleton, California, Airborne training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and became a Basic Urban Survival Trainer and Non-Lethal Weapons Instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. In 2002, Andrew deployed to South America for five months to train and conduct bilateral exercises with counterparts in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil. He deployed to Iraq from September 2004 to April 2005, where his platoon lived under a bridge on the Main Supply route 15 miles south of Baghdad, acting as a Quick Reaction Force and conducting counter-ambush patrols.
Working in the private military contracting industry, Andrew spent an additional three years working in Iraq between 2006 and 2011. Working from the US Embassy in Baghdad, he served as a Protective Security Specialist and later a Tactical Commander (2IC) for an Advance team as part of the State Department’s High Threat Protection program.
Andrew received his MBA from UW-Whitewater, a Graduate Certificate in Geographical Information Systems from UW-Madison, and a Bachelor of Science in Geography from Middle Tennessee State University. He is currently a financial analyst for Bell Laboratories, Inc., a Madison-area manufacturer.
Timothy M. Zadalis
Maj Gen Timothy M. Zadalis, USAF, Ret., has participated in a successful recovery effort of a World War II aviator at a crash site near Bastogne, Belgium with the UW MIA Project.
General Zadalis retired from the Air Force in 2017 after nearly 34 years of distinguished service. He is a graduate of the University of Alaska with a Bachelor of Science in the Biological Sciences. He holds a Master’s degrees in Management and Airpower Arts and Sciences, and was a National Security Fellow at the JFK School, Harvard University. His diverse career includes a wide variety of high-level joint assignments including U.S. Transportation Command, Central Command in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom, Southern Command in support of Haiti earthquake relief operations, he is a Northern Command Plank Holder, an Airborne Emergency Action Officer for Strategic Command, and served as ISAF Joint Command Director of Air Plans/Programs in Kabul, Afghanistan during the 2010-2011 operational surge. His Air Force career includes numerous executive staff and command positions culminating as the Vice Commander (now DCOM) of U.S. Air Forces Europe and Air Forces Africa directly supporting operations in U.S. European and Africa Command. General Zadalis has vast expertise in all aspects of air mobility operations, nuclear operations, world-wide airpower command and control, contingency and humanitarian relief operations, human resource, leadership development, and training and education. He is a Command Pilot with over 4,400 flight hours and qualified in 10 training and operational aircraft. He is a decorated combat veteran earning two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal, and the U.S. Army Combat Action Badge.
In retirement, General Zadalis divides his time between his consulting business and volunteering. He serves as an Adjunct Contract Professor (ACP) with the United States Air Force and Space Force supporting Department of Defense post-secondary educational institutions as a highly experienced subject matter expert in civil/military operations and leadership development. In addition to the ACP program, his consulting portfolio includes support for Air Force Research Laboratory advanced research and concept development programs. He also represents MDS Coatings Technologies as an Air Force Program Advisor. As a volunteer, he serves as the Senior Vice President for the Airlift/Tanker Association and on the Board of the Aviation Heritage Center of Wisconsin. He serves as Dean of the National Veterans Leadership Foundation Fellowship Program supporting Veteran Advocates at numerous universities and colleges. He’s a Strategic Advisor for BaseConnect/CityConnect—a software startup with multiple SBIR Phase III DoD contracts and serves as a student research mentor for The Ohio State’s Hacking for Defense program. And finally, he is the Military Ambassador and a Pace Car driver for Road America–“one of the world’s finest and most challenging road courses.” General Zadalis’ active duty biography is available on the Air Force website.