Secondhand Lions

Join our host Nate, alongside our guests MSgt John Daily, Ret. and Lt Col Russel Worth Parker, Ret., both Marines. 

Russell Worth Parker, USMC (Ret.), only meant to be a Marine for four years, the point at which he left the active-duty Corps before returning in the wake of 9/11. His was a winding road that led him through corporate America and law school before he decided to resume active service to help establish the new Marine Special Operations Command and serve as a Marine Raider. After 27 years in the Corps, he is home in Wilmington, North Carolina, hunting and fishing and being a husband and father – and has, as he puts it, “fallen backwards into a writing career.” Parker’s work has been published in The New York Times, Garden & Gun, The Bitter Southerner, Backcountry Journal, Shooting Sportsman, Salt Magazine and military websites such as SOFLETE.com. 

John Dailey, USMC (Ret.), served in the US Marine Corps from 1987 to 2008, retiring as a Master Sergeant.  During his career he served in a variety of infantry and reconnaissance units including 3rd and 5th Marine Regiments, 1st Force Reconnaissance Company, and 1st Special Operations Training Group. He was selected to serve as a Team Leader for Detachment One and was then tasked with assisting in the stand-up of the MARSOC Schoolhouse.  He is currently the Training and Education Branch Director for the Marine Raider Training Center. He became editor of The Raider Patch in 2016.