James Moore's interview with retired Major General Jonathon Scott Gration will air at 2:30pm on Planet Erstwild. The 2-Star General was the Director of Strategy, Policy, and Assessments of the United States European Command in Germany.

General Gration was raised in Africa and entered the Air Force in 1974 through the Air Force ROTC program at Rutgers University. He served as a White House Fellow, operations group commander and two-time wing commander. The general served as Director of Regional Affairs in the Office of the Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs.

General Gration served as the Commander of Task Force West during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His aerial combat experience includes almost a thousand hours of combat time with 274 combat missions over Iraq. He is currently on a veterans tour of southeast Iowa in support of Senator Barack Obama. He was in Fairfield yesterday.

At 3pm, James will discuss world events with BBC filmmaker Stuart Tanner from his home in Oxford, England.