Our National Radio Guest Michael Payne from TAKE A STAND, MEDIA MINISTRIES is a 55-year-old veteran, having served in the U.S.Air Force from 1970-1975. His fight with alcohol, drugs and other addictions lead him to work with veterans of Vietnam, and now Iraq, who fight with PTSD and other problems which he has overcome.

He has traveled to Baghdad, Fallujah and all of central Iraq including in the Sunni Triangle on three separate occasions, each for about a month, embedded with th 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Army in 2004 as a freelance reporter. While in Iraq, He traveled the roads of Baghdad in Humvees and walked the streets with U.S. soldiers on patrol and accompanied them on the midnight raids on at least 150 missions as U.S. troops searched out terrorists.
He has also worked as a journalist embedded with the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] in Israel in February 2006, where he got a ground level view of the true situation in Israel and the conditions that the people of Israel live with everyday.

He has traveled to Guantanamo Bay Prison facility and observed the conditions of the terrorist prisoners. He has spent many hours counseling veterans.

Prior to his stints in Iraq and Israel, he was a radio station manager and program director.
WE spoke about the War in Iraq and the coming attack on Iran....A great program from someone who has been there and is going back! We also spoke about Russia and China!
His Web Site is
http://www.takeastandministries.org/
Our Web site of course is
http://messiahsbranch.org/radio_archives.htm