As he was trying to sell the military effort there through the press, he allowed a reporter from the pop culture magazine to shadow him and his closest aides. The story quoted McChrystal mocking then-Vice President Joe Biden and his inner circle disparaging President Barack Obama for his lack of familiarity with the military. Obama promptly called McChrystal to Washington to procure his resignation.
This is the stuff of high profile network news interviews, but McChrystal is Skyping with two grad students for an episode of their podcast, “Thank You For Your Service.”
Thomas Krasnican, 23, and Nick Paraiso, 22, graduated from the Naval Academy just last May. They are completing master’s degrees at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy before reporting to their next assignments.
For Nick, that’s the USS Roosevelt, a destroyer.
For Thomas, that’s nuclear power school and then a submarine.
Right now, they just seem like typical grad students.
Nick is wearing a green…
