Gunny's Bio

From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli…and the airwaves of Colorado and beyond? You got it!
Join retired United States Marine infantry unit leader, ground-combat veteran, reconnaissance team leader, survival expert and warfighting instructor Bob Newman, aka “Gunny Bob”, for a raucous, hard-hitting show Monday through Friday from 1900-2200 (that’s 7-10PM for you civilians).
One of the world’s most respected authorities on terrorism, guerrilla warfare, special operations, survival and security, Gunny Bob has been commended for his work by mayors, governors, senators, congressional representatives and generals, including Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has given briefings and presentations on terrorism at the Maritime Security Council’s International Maritime Security Summit, China Shipping 2004, Intersec Security Exposition, Airport-Port-Terminal Security (Middle East) Exposition & Conference, TOC-Asia (Terminal Operations Conference--Asia), U.S. Air Force Academy, US oil & gas industry, and to various business organizations, as well as an assortment of government (foreign & domestic), media, civic, and private entities, and to professional sports organizations. A terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and tactics consultant to one of the largest metropolitan police departments in the United States, he is also the founder, president and chief executive officer of Workplace and School Security, LLC, which provides a wide array of counterterrorism, security, counterintelligence, intelligence and training services to corporations, schools and other organizations.
Newsradio 850 KOA's award-winning military science & terrorism analyst (besides show host), Bob’s hard-hitting, insightful analysis and commentary on terrorism, homeland security, guerrilla warfare and military science has resulted in his appearances on such programs as "The O’Reilly Factor," "On the Record" with Greta van Susteren, "War Zone" with Geraldo Rivera, "FOX News Live," "FOX News Sunday" and "Big Story Weekend" with Rita Cosby, "War on Terror: The Hunt for the Killers" with Linda Vester and Laurie Dhue, "The Big Story" with John Gibson, "The FOX Report" with Shepard Smith, "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, ABC’s "World News Tonight," MSNBC’s "Connected Coast to Coast" (hosted by Ron Reagan Jr. and Monica Crowley), CNN, the "Today" show (interviewed by Matt Lauer), "Talkback Live," "Catherine Crier Live," "Montel Williams," "Cochran & Company," and radio stations from coast to coast, as well as in Europe and Australia.
In October of 2002, Bob was the counterterrorism consultant for an investigative report on terrorism and homeland security for CBS in Phoenix. In July of 2003, Newsweek’s World Wide Web edition published an extensive interview with him on the guerrilla war in Iraq. Bob is a popular political columnist for Frontiers of Freedom and Men’s News Daily. The Chicago Tribune repeatedly consulted Bob in 2004 about interrogation techniques, the Geneva Conventions, and myriad aspects of subjects relating to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. While in the Middle East in March 2005, he was extensively interviewed by Reuters and Agence France-Presse regarding terrorism in the Persian Gulf.
The Gunny is well known for his uncanny ability to precisely predict the nature and location (by country) of terrorist attacks months, even years in advance, as well as anti-terrorist operations carried out by the U.S. Department of Defense and/or Central Intelligence Agency, and events relating to standard DoD operations, such as Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is also the most successful investigative journalist covering the war on terror, with 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).
Gunny Bob 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, Bob won another Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence for his special live broadcast on the 1st anniversary of the beginning of the liberation of Iraq titled "365 Days of War." And in 2005, the Gunny won a Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence in the Best Evening Show category. He is also a consultant to the BBC on terrorism, interrogations and guerrilla warfare, was selected by Westword as the "Best Military Expert" in that publication’s 2002 "Best of Denver" competition, and is a recipient of the Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps’ Leadership Writing Award.
The author of nearly 2,000 articles and columns that have appeared in dozens of publications, as well as 19 non-fiction books, including the very popular Guerrillas in the Mist: A Battlefield Guide to Clandestine Warfare, Marine Special Warfare & Elite Unit Tactics, and Wilderness Wayfinding: How to Survive in the Wilderness as You Travel, his first novel, Trenches & Hard-Points (a Gulf War novel), was released in October 2002. His next book, Minefields to Microphones: Global Asymmetric Warfare, the Radical Left and Winning the War on terror, is scheduled for a 2006 release. He is currently writing his 22nd book, The War for America: Liberal Extremism, Moral Turpitude, High Crimes and Misdemeanors in American Government and Society, expected to be published in 2007. A correspondent for the Cybercast News Service, Bob’s investigative reports on everything from terrorism to medicine are known for their depth and insight.
In March 2005, Bob accepted the position of adjunct scholar at The Institute for Liberty, a conservative think tank. Bob is also a popular guest instructor at Metropolitan State College in Denver, where he lectures on political science, history, culture, Islam, Judaism and terrorism.
Dave Kopel of the Rocky Mountain News, who is also an associate policy analyst for the Cato Institute and a columnist for National Review Online, said: "In the Colorado media, KOA evening radio host Bob Newman is virtually alone in presenting a sophisticated understanding of military science."
A certified hostage survival instructor, Gunny Bob is a decorated, retired parachute- and scuba-qualified United States Marine with extensive, global operational experience in reconnaissance, special operations, counterterrorism and wilderness survival, and is a ground combat veteran who has traveled to 43 countries. The Gunny is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and is a life member of the Disabled American Veterans.