Dennis Wade — USAF, 1999–2008
A Navy Lodge night shift, a recruiter who walked in for coffee, two years at RAF Lakenheath, three deployments, and an incentive ride in an F-15E Strike Eagle.
Podipedia
The navigable commons over expert-class podcast conversation. Verbatim transcripts, Wikipedia-anchored, audio-anchored, cross-referenced. Built from the long form, not the highlight reel.
Wikipedia inherited five structural functions from print encyclopedias — indexing, annotation, cross-reference, hyperlinking, and translation — and used them to build the largest open knowledge commons in human history. Podipedia applies those same five functions to the medium Wikipedia structurally cannot serve: long-form dialogue.
This is the v0 demonstration corpus — the first channel, Behind the Rack, a veterans' conversation series. More channels arrive as their creators consent to participation.
v0 corpus
Paul LaScola — USAF, 1993–2013
Twenty years from enlistment to retirement. From Keesler to Grand Forks to Ramstein, then 9/11 from the Offutt watch floor, on through Korea and Hawaii to a Kabul deployment to close out the career.
Firman Sakir — USMC, 1993–2001
The first non-USAF guest on the show. Eight years in the Marine Corps: Parris Island, Quantico, an unforgettable lunch with the Commandant, and a hard charge on veteran suicide prevention.
About
Podipedia is a LathropSystems venture. The platform hosts only verbatim transcripts — no synthesized articles, no editorial re-rendering of episode content. The Wikipedia parallel is for structural functions, not editorial product. Annotation, when it appears, is a navigable margin layer over the transcript — never a replacement for it.
The corpus is built one channel at a time, with full creator consent. The current v0 channel is Behind the Rack, produced by Brian Lathrop (USAF Ret., 21 years service).