Third Squad

FAIN: GA-281089-21

San Diego State University Foundation (San Diego, CA 92182-1931)
Gregory Daddis (Project Director: February 2021 to October 2022)
Elliott Woods (Co Project Director: April 2021 to October 2022)

This grant will be used to complete field work for a documentary podcast project titled Third Squad, about the wartime and homecoming experiences of a group of United States Marines who served during the most violent phase of the Afghanistan War. Interwoven with intimate biographical portrayals of the Marines’ experiences, Third Squad will provide its audience with a rigorous examination of the history of the Afghanistan War, focusing on the strategic decisions that led up to the 2009 “surge” and the outcome of that particularly bloody period.