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For the anthropologist, see Robert S Newman.

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Is the host of the "Gunny Bob Show" on 850 KOA (AM), a 50,000 watt station in Denver, Colorado.

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Personal background

Newman was born in Washington, DC in 1958. Raised primarily in rural Maine and along the edge of the Everglades in Florida, Newman attended the University of Maine at Orono before joining the Marine Corps in 1977. Newman claims direct descent from Robert Emerson Newman, the sexton of the Old North Church in Boston who hung the lanterns in the steeple of the church as a warning of the approach of the British for fellow revolutionary Paul Revere.[link]

Newman claims to have caught more than 180 species of gamefish on fly fishing and light tackle. He has hunted in Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Alaska, Argentina and England and has traveled to 43 countries and six continents.

The author of several books and numerous articles and columns, Newman resides in Colorado.

Military career

Gunnery Sergeant Newman
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Newman was a professional Marine for 20 years, during which time he held a variety of infantry, reconnaissance, recruiting, special operations, counterterrorism and survival billets, rising to the rank of Gunnery Sergeant (E-7).

In his 20-year career, Newman earned the military occupational specialties of mortarman (0341), reconnaissance man (0321), infantry unit leader (0369), 8654 (parachute- and scuba-qualified reconnaissance man), recruiter (8411), water safety & survival instructor (8563) and SERE instructor (NEC 9505).

Newman served as a mortar assistant gunner and gunner, platoon ammunition NCO and forward observer while assigned to the 81mm Mortar Platoon, Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, 1st Marine Brigade.

During this time, Newman deployed to the Western Pacific as part of the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit, which operated in South Korea, the Philippines and Hong Kong aboard the USS Vancouver (LPD-2).

In 1979, Newman was one of only two applicants among 12 in his testing group to win reassignment to Alpha Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, where he would serve as an assistant team leader, team leader and company training NCO. (The other 10 quit the testing process or were hospitalized and unable to return to duty.) While assigned to 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, Newman again deployed with the 31st Marine Amphibious Unit to the Philippines, Thailand, North Arabian Sea, Kenya, Australia and Guam, aboard the USS Okinawa (LPH-3). He also served aboard the fast-attack submarine USS Barbel (SS 580) as a reconnaissance team diver.

He was picked by the director of the 1st Marine Corps District to establish the Corps’ first recruiting sub-station in Europe (1983).

Also in 1983, Newman was temporarily assigned as the Marine Corps’ liaison to an FBI forensics team in Germany. This team was assigned the task of identifying the 241 Marines, sailors and soldiers who died in the terrorist bombing of the Marine Amphibious Unit barracks at Beirut International Airport in October of that year. Newman says this duty was "the most trying" of his career and that "standing among the bodies of 241 of your brothers is a wake-up call one never forgets."

As an instructor on Water Survival Branch at the Corps’ Landing Force Training Command, Pacific, in San Diego, Newman was part of a three-Marine team that developed the Marines’ combat water-survival course, the skills of which are still taught today to fully combat-loaded Marines operating in all manner of aquatic environments.

He broke his neck on a parachute jump in 1989.

Newman was the Marine Corps’ first advanced survival-evasion-resistance-escape (ASERE) instructor (1988), a qualification he attained while instructing at the Navy’s SERE School in Maine, during which time he also attained the qualification of master training specialist and helped establish the Tropical Environment Survival Training (TEST) Course on the island of Antigua in the West Indies.

Serving as the platoon sergeant for Weapons Platoon, Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines in the Gulf War, Newman was responsible for helping coordinate mortar, machine-gun and rocket fire for the company. This company assaulted through the Iraqi minefields and obstacle belts in southern Kuwait. It fought its way to the Kuwait City suburb of al Jarrah as part of the 2nd Marine Division’s attack under Major General William "Bulldog" Keys USMC. "Leading Marines in ground combat was the greatest honor I could ever have hoped for. I miss my men and think of them daily," Newman says.

After the Gulf War and a subsequent Mediterranean Sea deployment with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), which saw duty in Israel, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Portugal and on the island of Crete aboard the USS Inchon (LPH-12), Newman was reassigned as the Company Gunny, Headquarters Company, 8th Marines. During this time, he deployed to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California; Fort Carson, Colorado; and to Turkey.

In 1993, Newman was reassigned as a squad advisor and the chief warfighting instructor at the Advanced Course, Staff Noncommissioned Officers Academy aboard Camp Geiger, a billet from which he retired after 20 years of service in the Corps.

Awards, decorations and breast insignia

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Political Views

A registered independent since the age of 18, Newman claims to be a conservative with some moderate leanings, and declares himself to be an independent who is not affiliated with any political party, especially the Republicans or Democrats.

His views include being in favor of limited abortion (restricted to cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother), strong but practical environmental defense policies, strongly anti-immigration (especially in the case of Hispanics), and extensive civil rights (up to but not including gay marriage). He views affirmative action as being a racist policy and is against any additional gun control measures and against some already on the books.

He has even at times been critical of the Bush administration.[link] However, critics charge he is actually an ultra-conservative. [link] Newman has also called for the execution or imprisonment of John Kerry, Howard Dean, and John Murtha as traitors, claiming that "Kerry, Murtha and Dean have betrayed their country and aided the enemy for personal gain," and summing up by saying "Somewhere, two ropes and a prison cell are being wasted."[link]

Radio Talk Show Host

Bob Newman currently hosts a radio talk show at 850 KOA (AM) broadcasting out of Denver, Colorado called "The Gunny Bob Show". He previously co-hosted a radio show on 630 KHOW (AM) [link] with Scott Redmond called "Redmond & Newman".

He is the most successful investigative journalist covering the war on terror, with at least 100 accurate predictions and assessments, and stories he has broken since October 2001 (more than all other military science and terrorism analysts in the media combined).

Newman won a national-level 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting on terrorism and homeland security, and won a 2001 Associated Press/Colorado Broadcasters Association Award, also for investigative reporting on terrorism and homeland security. In 2003, "Redmond & Newman" won a Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence. In 2004, Newman won another Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence for his special live broadcast on the 1 st anniversary of the beginning of the liberation of Iraq titled "365 Days of War." He is also a frequent consultant to the BBC on terrorism, interrogations and guerrilla warfare and was selected by Westword as the "Best Military Expert" in that publication's 2002 "Best of Denver" competition. [link]

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