"Air Force Stories" Pt 1 by Nutnfancy

lieutenant colonel nutnfancy reporting for duty sir not really I'm all done with that you guys know that retired from the United States Air Force hey guys it's none fancy running the net fancy project we're moving on into year four here comes a series of videos that I think my friends my subscribers around the world are really going to like it's called Air Force stories by net and fancy and I'm going to get very real with you guys I'll be very forthcoming about the details of my military experience the lessons I've learned funny stuff that happens scary stuff that happened and I'm going to do my best to share them with you like we're sitting around the fireside talk and chatting getting real lots to say and actually it's going to be I think really interesting for you guys especially those of you who are perhaps contemplating service in the US Air Force maybe another branch of service because a lot of the lessons I'm going to tip to impart via story form love stories don't you they'll play in any military service it really will I'm going to talk about principles of leadership dedication principles of work many of which I covered in workers are a few video philosophy video I posted a while back and I was just going to be fun and I don't know how I'm going to organize it I was just going to tell stories but then as I started getting my stories I started reviewing my log books I started thinking you know there's really a lot of lessons in here things that have changed the way I perceive live things that were validated my approach to life some of which you've already seen in my philosophy videos and then things learned lessons I had to learn the hard way and integrate it into the kind of person I've become so a 20 year Air Force pilot I'm going to tell you about that here in a second first we need a banner I don't have my banner up he's falling down with duct tape boom there you go we'll do the electronic banner on this series of videos I think they'll run about 40 45 minutes apiece don't know how many I'll do it just depends on the stories the length I think again they'll be interesting to you guys a couple ground rules okay yep this is my actual US Air Force uniform on for this series of videos retired as a lieutenant colonel US Air Force you guys know that non-face why don't you tell this to us before like two years ago there's a couple reasons one I was in a deployment unit I was deploying for months on end did you guys even know that like in Oh a oh nine lot of the videos were posted from overseas Oh yup overseas so I left my family my house for months on end you know for security reasons not a great idea to tell people you're in a deploying military unit who knows who's out there you know there's some whack jobs on the internet and there's some no kidding enemy so I'm talking al-qaeda types that would love to get that information that's why security and I still roll that way in other words as far as divulging certain details about what you know my jobs that I'm doing currently and stuff like that I still don't you know when the time's right I'll divulge it and guess what the times right for my Air Force stuff I'm going to be very forthcoming with you guys I'm going to tell you my you military units what planes I flew yep may throw a few names in there some have been changed to protect the innocent or I'll do that as I go it was going to be so fun it really is okay ground rules we're talking I don't want to sit in front of the camera and act like that I'm some Joe hero or that my military service is any better than anybody else's I am NOT one of those guys that says well the Air Force's do best service out there nor do I like when they say the Marines are the best service or the Army's of US service or whatever Coast Guard's best service you know it's okay to kid around that and I kid around with that I mean you see me with my now in Afghanistan buddy in averts mal family friend he's actually a good friend of tactical doodles my son served in Afghanistan I bust him out on him all the time and actually guys I know that a Marines it's hilarious we'll bust back and forth when it comes down to get serious I respect all the services I respect all the service that the men and women of our forces put fourth and I feel very sincerely about that I dedicated a huge portion of my life to the United States military because I believe so strongly in it I felt like and I'm kind of jumping the gun here but I felt like I owed a debt to the country to the freedom that I inherited from those who came before me okay so there's some realness for you I told you is going to be real well there'll be more of that as we go on but I don't want to stand up here or sit in front of your neck like that I'm Joe hero or that I'm cool or this or that I'm just going to tell you I want to tell you how the story ended you know sometimes it did some things really right and sometimes I did some things that weren't so good I'll try to be honest with you guys so I'm no better no worse than anybody else and it's my philosophies you know everything you see in the none fancy project whether to take on a gear item a gun a knife tackle item my backpacking philosophies it's all me you know it's all real it's just the way I am so I perceive life I think a lot of you guys actually most you guys will really connect what I'm saying here and you'll find even if you're not in the United States military or any military some of our allies are overseas which are awesome and I served with them as well throughout my 20 years love those guys I might tell you some of those stories as well um you know it you will still find some parallels they'll be useful to you that in any organization oh yeah I know that type of person and I'm actually and as we go on speaking to my philosophies I am I'm actually more General Patton than general Westmoreland if that's a great example that I am I really like the warrior mentality and everything that I did in my Air Force career you can ask anybody who served with me it's very much along those lines I don't believe in nonsense is you is that a word think so political correctness hate it okay if it does not directly a trip contribute to your war fighting capability I'm not interested and I spent my whole career saying it as was I very welcome for that being up front and I was just honest and we'll talk about that um I learned also ground rules were talking still that I never took enough videos I never took enough photos okay so for you guys and gals in the US military any military for that matter take more photos take more video and don't listen to the idiot next you go no you're taking more heroes shots huh I heard that every time every time I got on the ramp and I was taking a picture of t-38 c12 whatever Oh hero shot I'm like oh yeah but you know I'm not always going to be doing that job huh what do you know Here I am 20 years later not doing the job and it'd be really cool for me to have a lot more photos and video to roll in to you guys I did take some and I've trans I've learned how to transfer it finally over to the digital medium and so I'm going to roll in some when it's appropriate if I can find it pictures here and there I have a whole boatload of a memorabilia on the table I'm going to show you as we go along and again I'm not bragging not donating that I'm just trying to be honest and making it fun and then also you need to understand this another ground rule is it every job in the in the military has its own your unit culture not just unit culture but weapons system culture so I am a product of the planes I flew that culture which i think is pretty cool actually and everything's like that you drive an m1 Abrams tank in the USMC is going to have its own culture there's things which are considered the norm for that culture there's things which are considered CS I'll explain that and that's normal you cannot get away from it you need to adapt to it and then when you get respected enough you might be able to impact it with your own way of being here's my nut car check that up cuz I'm going to do the entire series of videos off this let's get going how did I come to join the United States Air Force I've had a lot of people ask me in person and also in messaging here on YouTube you know why'd you do it how come you're not I mean you run and gun so much you're so tactical how come you're not a Marine here's the real answer is because I wanted to affect the battlefield to my maximum potential there's your honest answer that when I was a teenager and I said you know what I'm going to do this air force thing alright I wasn't totally solidified yet on it so I want to do the military thing I wanted to impact the battlefield to wreak as much damage as I possibly could how's that for an answer I'm not even kidding with you a knife at the time what I wanted to do is be an a-10 warthog pilot you didn't know that did you I want to be an a-10 pilot I want to be a cast guy close air support I want to be the guy that rolled in over the hills saving those guys on the ground not to be a hero but to save lies that's what motivated me that that I had studied in junior high school and high school hack in grade school World War two history which I'm very well-versed in I knew how it worked you know on to the 30s late thirties when Germany started moving the European campaign the Pacific campaign on it to Korea I had a lot of understanding of how when how important close air support could be and that's what motivated me I wouldn't be an ATM guy and I want to have a 30 millimeter cannon and the wreak havoc man go to war that's why I went to the Air Force I actually did look into joining other services and I oh there was one other thing factored into and this really important is I knew that on the other side I was like planning remember that whole thing I talked about and plan your life are lived to impress yourself that video I'm well I knew I wouldn't be in the military forever and I wanted to have a life skill to that I that would be marketable that I could do something with so I said how can I measure these two things together to reduce my stamina on the battlefield that's possible what happened because it's true and also that life skill BAM Air Force let sort of looked at why don't you go Navy huh looked into that too I was like I could be and I could easily gone in the Navy but carrier for six months what total dudes on there no I'm gonna looked at like well I won't have a family I'm gonna have kids and the Navy lifestyle just didn't seem really suited to that okay so there you go I decided good you know be an Air Force dude and I'm pretty happy with that decision I'm really happy actually I would change a thing that I did how did you get your commission nutnfancy great question and I got it through ROTC if I went if I were to do it all over again and by the way out know if you see this but right here ng baby Air National Guard I like I did my last ten years of military service and Reserve Component 151st Air Refueling Wing they Rock by the way you tie our National Guard I would have gotten sponsored by National Guard unit that is the bomb dudes that's how you get your commission they'll send you to their little boot camp to become an officer and then they sponsor you through undergraduate pilot training and I will tell you this you PT and I'm going to really strive to not impart a lot of jargon to you because there is a lot of jargon in our flying job and I'm usually pretty good explaining things in layman's terms I might slip here and their undergraduate pilot training is the process which you get your pilot wings okay it's a two-phase process used to go to a primary jet train and advanced jet training when I went through the aircraft I flew were t37 and t-38 so I'll show you pictures here in just a second and before you get there though in the United States Air Force you have to get a four-year college degree I did that at a university and I went through a ROTC program as I did it I went to summer camp it's called advanced training program between my visit before my junior year in college I went to a teepee and then I graduated okay and then you have to compete is a very important point for a slot just to go to pilot training now it ebbs and flows as time goes on in other words there might be a lot of slots and pilot training some years and when I went through and I graduated college there were very few slots it was extremely competitive to get a slot in the EPT very tough back to the National Guard thing or the reserve unit thing you don't compete that process those units get those slots I wish I had known this actually went up to the 419 flying f-105 thunderchiefs at the time and I'd already signed on the dotted line with our LTC and I walked that was like my dad had told me is like well why did you get sponsored he was alive at the time it's like why don't you get sponsored by the for 19th up it you know he'll I was like I don't know little II don't know locked in talked to their commander I think his name was Colonel brain back then toast toast great guy he goes yeah we'd love to have you you know I can't guarantee anything through a package in will consider you but for sponsoring I said oh yeah by the way I sign line on ROTC he's like oh you're committed and I was like oh Newman because it's cool the a and G guys that go down to you and you PT and they don't compete they already have a guaranteed job they're going to their guard unit they're going to the reserve unit and the plane they fly they just go through you PT and they go to the training for their specific aircraft at rocks another way you can go through is OTS you can be an enlisted guy and then you can compete there's always competition everything is competition in the airforce inside way in the Navy all the services are that way have to be an Army Ranger you're competing to get into that school that weeds out the uncommitted it's a good thing in go to OTS get your Commission there you still have to go to give you four year degree compete for you PT slot and then you go to a certain school that bridge the Air Force Academy did you ever consider that not fancy yeah I actually did and I came very close to going to the Air Force Academy had all my applications in had my approvals get ready to pull the trigger on it and then my dad who also was a experienced Air Force pilot he was a fighter pilot and so career here he is standing in front of the t-38 superstud he named that plane by the way at the Talon that's right my dad named the t-38 Talon and an Air Force wide naming contest and he flew the f100 ovie 1001 burdock tea 38 T 39 he had a very illustrious Air Force career so you have any smoke I listened and he goes you know what if I were you I would not go to the Air Force Academy I would just do ROTC in that way you can find a hot wife get married and have kids and stuff and that wasn't important part of my plan it wasn't you know like I'm like some my buddies are like laser beam focused force pilot Air Force pilot I was like seeing the big picture yeah Air Force and military service is an important part of something I want to do I'm going to dedicate a lot of my life time I die in the process to be real I'm seriously not mom but I want to have a backside of that life in and our plan seemed to work out good that's why my son TAS will do two one I are more like buddies you guys see us on camera all the time because we had a pretty young it was by design wasn't an accident I wanted to have my kids young in my life I was in my early 20s when tactical doodle popped out and then later on my last set of a suspect came out okay so that's the three ways you could go and what the ROTC route which one would you recommend I would probably go the route I did ROTC is great it's it's awesome if you can get a an appointment through the reserve unit of your choice be advised it's extremely competitive I know because I sat on the board the hiring board at Utah National Guard and I saw all the packets come across the table and I'm looking at them and I'm looking over the candidates and I was I was helping make our unit the decision whether hire these guys whether good guys what's the qualifications are they motivated all that good stuff some of that I've rolled into the philosophy videos already there you have it that's what I did I cannot tell you how hard under pilot training is it's something you actually have to experience it could have very well changed since I went through because I went through 1992 a long time ago um but it's very difficult nothing is a given in you PT when I went through the washout rate and both aircraft was extremely high I don't I didn't go back review the numbers but I think we had like a I think 50 percent washout rate if everybody who started in t 37 s and here's a T 30 second tweet most of the washouts occurred in this aircraft in primary jet and what they're teaching you there is how to be a pilot the discipline the habit patterns you know instrument cross-checks formation flying low level flying all those skill sets you're going to need to your fall on aircraft whether it's a fighter heavy whatever nowadays they do a different aircraft but when I went to 80 37 great plane loved it it's just a tank they didn't up an attack version of this they sold to the South Vietnamese in Vietnam War and it was a a 37 I think's a little hot rod has a lot better motors in it and then you graduate if you graduate t37 you move on to t-38 what a suite will complain that is how awesome is that yeah in my video lived to impress yourself this is this is a plane eye-opening with that footage of t-38 still flying they have some new avionics upgrades for it's just a gorgeous plant Northrup t-38 love it supersonic trainer they have a fighter version of it which is actually quite different plane f5 that we sold overseas for a while if you make it through you PT dude you have done something this will get me to my first point expect to fear conquer fear expect fear and conquer fear what do you mean well I'll tell you what when I started undergraduate pilot training by no means as I like oh man yeah I'm going to rock this program I really wasn't sure you know one of the problems I had in t37 phase is down there in Texas dudes I have some serious allergies oh my gosh I mean I was doing a spin and for your reference what that is you take two t37 up I don't know 23,000 feet instructor kicks a rudder puts the aircraft in an intentional spin and around around you got a woman you don't you through the t37 boldface to pop out of the spin spinning left right or right whatever it was I kind of forget it a lot of guys remember like I know the spin Bowl face I'm like I've totally forgotten I know generally what to do to get out of it as I was doing that though my ears were clogging one day I landed I had here our blood coming out of my ears yeah you know it was draining I'm gonna clear my ears it was really difficult I can't even tell you I mean I was married to mrs. Gunn's fancy back then I'd come home from a t37 right sometimes we're double turning during the primary Jed and I was like I was exhausted Claud and I was scared I don't know if I was going to make it through primary jet physiological reasons alone they did get a joke it uh it was it was a lot of work and then you you know you double term that day and you come home and you hit the books you study because you have academic tests pretty much every day you will have a quiz every day and then you have some big tests once a week and I just buckle down I didn't mess around that no time for watching movies video games as if that's back in 1992 anyhow no you ain't got time for that you're too busy working and keeping your mind on the goal and that is getting these Air Force wings right here I'm not going to tell you the process is perfect I mean there's some Air Force pilots it got their wings and I select dude or dudette some female pilots and I go oh my gosh how did you graduate pilot training I just don't get it I just don't get it but yeah the process does a pretty good job of teaching you some pretty important stuff um expect fear conquer fear way I address it in not so much pilot training but it's pretty much my follow on aircraft and I think I need to speak to that I hope I'm not boring you guys I guess I'm gonna have to go back and give you some background to how that transpired how I got the aircraft I did I told you guys I want to be an a-10 pilot another thing that happens in transpires an undergraduate pilot training is that the ever changing assignment process okay in other words there's some aircraft that are available and there's some aircraft that just aren't available when I graduated the Air Force was very pilot heavy they didn't need a lot of pilots guys graduating I think there were sixteen or seventeen of us that ended up graduating at a t-38 Oh has an F flight he'll Rio that is Del Rio Texas in t37 then I went into ogres captain Tom powers was our flight commander graduated Eggers as a flight and t-38s at Del Rio Laughlin Air Force Base in the assignment night we had one fighter come down and that fighter was a banked fighter in other words our dude whose name was Tom our number one graduating guy student he used to be an f-111 weapons officer dude he got that slot and it was a banked fighter so I think he ran a desk for two years and then actually the Air Force was true to those guys and they gave them the fighter training and then they were given cockpits I think tom went to 15 last time I heard he was actually a winged command or a group commander f-16 ended up at Ogden cool I didn't graduate at the top of my class for daily flight scores when everything was said and done totaled up I was number two and I'm talking like how did you do day by day by day but for officership and all the other stuff that goes in I know such a wisenheimer and I speak my mind a lot I think I was ranked like middle of the pack so for I think overall assignments I chose like number six or something for my my planes and when I got up to the board I actually had some really distinct preferences of what I wanted and what I didn't want and at that time I got to be honest with you I really didn't want to fight her anymore why dude he said he wanted to eight ten I know I did well when I went to ATP that is advanced training program I flew these guys here comes two memorabilia these are uh squadron scarves from all the units which hosted me Pat is at frickin hilarious story historia might have to tell you that this might be like an eight-part or that's not one here we go and these are actually 1838 squadrons 88 can't speak a t-38 squadrons they're now used as fighter lead-in aircraft they look very similar to the t-38 they're just painted in that camouflage colors I'll roll in some footage right now when I went to a teepee I was hosted by the 1838 squadron also the iron Heights which at the time were flying f-15s and if you've ever seen me standing in front of an f15 that's during that phase outs ATP and I had multiple f-15 rides with those guys it wasn't a qualified Air Force pilot at the time but I was already signed on the dotted line I was going to go an Air Force and so they're like here you go here's your host unit I learned them in that unit in that experience that I probably wasn't a great fit for the f-15 world or maybe the whole fighter world I love the fighter guys but it is a different community we're getting back to unit culture on the unit culture there is very hard charging you know braggadocious and you know wise asses and they think they're God's gift to aviation and all that I'm not saying that's a bad thing because an air-to-air mission like the f-15 sees which I flew in they kind of have to be that way it's a very cutting edge weapon system at least it was at the time and you got to be on your game you know you got to be a warrior in that plane and also I'd had tactical dude on my son and my whole perception change in Clinton changed Clinton was came into office later on I don't really like the military decisions that were being made I didn't like the fact that I might be dropping ordnance directly on top of somebody that I didn't politically support the mission and so that was kind of factored into it I know I'm still in the Air Force I'm still supporting that mission but those two things kind of changed my my motivation to fly fighters and there you go so when I stood up I chose the most awesomeness of planes ever kc-135 baby what that's not a weapon system nutnfancy oh yes it is studly is playing the world if you ask me that's an a bottle throughout my career I flew all models with kc-135 not all flute a's t's and r's and Q's i didn't fly artis that is a refuel above one thank you heavens just another qualification keep up on a your qualification of refuelings ran out oh great I got to go do that now oh my gosh so shows the kc-135 one of the reasons I chose it is because at the time it had t-38 ace attached to it sick in other words a stood for accelerated copilot enrichment program here I'm standing just like my dad was many years later in front of the t-38 this actually belonged to the b-52 squadron up in Minot Air Force Base this is taken in June of 1993 on a cross-country down to San Antonio with my buddy look how sick that plane is it's like a little f5 gray they're painted the same colors as their b-52s were and so when I chose that plane I was like whoa t 30 days yeah I'm up for that you not be a co-pilot for four years three years whatever the upgrade time was so I went to Minot North Dakota Minot North Dakota and enroute I went to water survival training at homestead Air Force Base for ejection seat aircraft now homestead is gone it got wiped out by hurricanes shortly after I graduated is really cool the water Survival program amazing take you out there they hoist you up on a parachute they cut you loose you drive drift down into the bay deploy your raft you sit there and float for an hour too while you wait for the Coast Guard helicopter to come pick you up you go through your you know port and water and the the raft for your extraction procedures you do some jungle survival you just signaling we did so much fun stuff there zip lines into water what a sick sick program that was little reason I got that is because I was assigned assigning to an ejection seat aircraft in 238 I burned you guys yet okay so and then I went to land survival up a fairchild air force base and sea retraining went through Pio W training there pretty hardcore pretty Airport there's more hardcore I've heard stories I know all my buddies and all the other services I've heard all the stories yeah it's great training I can't go into the details air survival training I got there - pretty cool I'd always been an outdoor guide so for me it was pretty much a party the scape and evasion was honestly a joke is just it was just funny because guys are can taking all serious oh man they're after you hear gunfire cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo gnomes like you know GI Joe is in my element K magic okay so I got the kc-135 I'm still under the talking point of expect for your concrete time pressed on and I probably upgraded to aircraft commander sooner and I thought it would and it wasn't at Minot North Dakota because my following assignment was actually Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane Washington man I love Spokane what a great place to live that was we were there for six years I was at Minot for almost three like two and a half six and a half actually at Spokane and actually the squadron I was in at Minot North Dakota flying the kc-135s first a models and then our models was it I know sixth now decommissioned I think they flew b-17s in World War two then they transitioned all kinds of different different aircraft up in my now we're actually edgiest geographically separated unit AGS you up in Minot North Dakota by the way Hague Marko oh my gosh if you're in North Dakota I don't mean that offensively but oh I just hated it there's nothing up there man it's like cold it's windy I'm talking really cold like 20 below zero 30 below zero need a heater in your car then when it warms up we lived in base housing the sewage pond warm up and turn it smelled like sewage for two weeks solid the mosquitos would come in and suck you dry blood then I'm like taking a little baby topical zoo out there shooting there's nowhere to go shooting it's all private land I'm not to drive an hour just to find a place to shoot even though North Dakota is all flat farmland there's nothing there hated it the only thing I loved about North Dakota is one of the people were pretty cool pretty laid-back there was no crime in North Dakota that I ever saw there and then I flew to 38 it was cool and then we transition our models our model tanker had the big fan motors on it I'll roll in the picture right now that's an R model has a cfm56 putting out I don't know 20,000 22,000 of thrust on it and guys were really stoked at night my squatter in there Minot when we upgrade there oh dude we're gonna get our miles and I was like oh dude we're going to go deploy more that sucks at the time southern watch what's going on we're forcing the no fly zones against it off the same and sure enough as soon as we got the Armada they're like boom you guys are going and thus started my long and very extensive desert time over there in multiple countries mostly Saudi Arabia flying the kc-135s refueling fighter guys who are enforcing the no-fly zone then I went to Spokane upgraded to aircraft commander and here comes a story as a new aircraft commander our so I'm going to roll in a different talking point here and that is which one should I roll in now how about this one be a quiet professional be a quiet professional that's one thing I've always respected in my military service I respected here in YouTube I respect it anywhere I like guys that really deliver but they don't talk much about delivering they're doers they're not sayers and not braggadocious they don't act badass anybody who's act impose or all the big talkers don't deliver man I can't tell you how many times I saw that my Air Force career here comes another story let's go back to Minot North Dakota this isn't happening me happen to a good friend of mine Muddy Waters buddy was I know he'll watch this video right dude he made a career out of the US Air Force dude seriously why okay I'm just busting autumn dude but he was flying with this particular dude and I'm just going to call this dude the Terminator anybody who was in that squad of time that is exactly what I'm talking about because that's what he called himself I think and so money's flying at t-38 into Ellsworth I think it was Ellsworth right muddy this plane right here they're on short final they lose a motor they take a bird down the right motor could boom it compressor stalls huge bang basically blows up on them terminators in the front seat muddy my quiet professional friends in the back seat by the way you gotta know this Terminator guy big talker in around the squadron he rolled his flight suit up and walk around he always had a scarf on on you know was acting all badass and he's talking a big game and he got the cha going on you know he's dis dues man he's awesome right that's what he wants you to think they take the bird terminators charts good start screaming like a girl we're gonna die we're gonna die and at first money goes dude I thought he was kidding I thought he was just messing around but he's in the back seat in the back seat in the t-38 you really have really good visibility terminators flying the plane because in the air aids program unit land from the backseat that was something that instructors did only we had the landform front seat so terminators supposed to make the landing he has the visibility and he has lost his mind seriously he's checked out X is like a cartoon character gingka junk in his eyes like he's non-functional when you take the aircraft in a dual seat aircraft specially when you can't see each other like t-38 you stir the stick so money comes back says shut up I have the aircraft and he says give me the aircraft knees like smacks ass dick left and right back and forth they're only like on a 7 mile final in Terminator still screams I dude we're going to go - we eject you eject it's like eject we got a good motor dude shut up seriously money told the story and I was like just like what this guy did that he's like yeah freaked his cone money is as cool as a cucumber back there running his checklist which by the way I have right here there's my hole t-38 checklist with all my notes Anna still got it still got my G suit huh still got my helmet that's actually my dad's helmet he flew in Vietnam with had him refurbished that I flew t-38 in it how styling is that yeah awesome buddy's taking care of business out there runs a single-engine landing checklist full-face shuts a motor down pushes up the thrust it's cold day they have plenty of thrust no big deal is like I lost motor I'm going to land meanwhile terminators all of a sudden the dude's name I don't want to do that he's like freaking his cone muddy lands it uneventful landing he's a hero quiet professional muddies was a stud pilot I flew them in the kc-135 we're too thick of it some really wild stuff happening I never saw him lose it's just a great pilot really chilled out funnier and heck funnier me muddy was those are the guys I respect in the United States military not the law talkers not the guys that do all the pose and I think they're so badass and try to impress everybody they're usually doing that because they're very insecure did you know that that's why they're doing it okay but that's not to say that I consider myself Joe awesome pilot I upgraded aircraft commander here comes the story oz watch on at the time we're taking the kc-135 the our model over to the western rent or the Pacific Rim that is Japan Korea Okinawa to do what we're called channel runs and that's where we would haul cargo because the c-141 was experiencing wing problems at the time they're having catastrophic failures of their wing box and so they're like hey Air Force goes Air Mobility Command there's my AMC patch I'll wore out emcee goes hey these are models they're actually you put some rollers in them they're actually pretty awesome cargo planes we can put a whole bunch of crap in there when load ordnance lettuce you know I don't know playboys what what pepper needs to get over there we'll take it and so we stepped into the c-141 mission and we started doing a lot of channel runs and Here I am a brand new aircraft commander and they're looking for volunteers my hand shoots up I want to go I'm gonna go on a go why because dudes that's what we do I think being part of a quiet professionals going where the fight is you want to and I see guys I respect the heck out of that you know the fights going on Afghanistan Iraq this younger generation which I think is the second great generation you're like yes in me I want to go I want to be there that's what I do I train I don't want to be hiding behind a tree and say no don't send me yeah I do my ferret bitching and moaning about deploying I'm not going to say I don't and I did but as a young aircraft commander the real world experience awaited me out there not flying around the flagpole at my not in Spokane and so they're like dude you're in boom you're going so I'm in young your craft commander I'm going to try to make this story quick there's so much detail coming back and the thing was we have these huge missions we fight like ten hours over Yokota we had no ground time or min ground time they'd load and we go shoot all through those you know the you know down to Okinawa down to Korea back through and then we'd refuel minimum ground time you're exhausted you're on the back side of the clock and then you go back to Travis Air Force Base to in this case I was carrying I believe four pallets of cargo and like 35 or 40 duty passengers people deploying back to the United States I'm a brand new aircraft commander not brand new I look at the weather Travis and it's like horrible winds direct crosswind of 35 knots at the time my buddy Jim Prisco hello Jim I hope you watch this video man is a cool dude talk about a quiet professional Jim was a quiet professional he was a kc-135 experts he was with us on that channel run he'd been in the jump seat the whole time and I'm looking at the approach I'm looking at the winds a direct crosswind which and if you don't know land in this plane and a crosswind will kick your butt this is an a model the our model has a huge motors got like what eight inches or six inches of ground clearance here so if you're screwed up on your controls you drag an engine catch the engine on fire it's a big deal they call it drag in a pod I have all this cargo I'm exhausted from the channel run and I look at my Chloe cow I was scared ain't gonna lie I was scared I was like oh my gosh dude took a deep breath visualized success which I tell you guys to do and then I look to the jump seat where Jim Prisco had been sitting to see if he gave us give me some support look there he had left I'm like what this is on short final I briefed my crew dudes I'm going to try to make this landing if it doesn't work were gone around going to our alternate two planes had gone around in front of us and at that time I was gusting to about I don't know 30 knots our legal limit was 25 knots there abouts in the kc-135 this cargo had to get there was a time critical I don't remember so I just say you know what well time to man up and I manned up nailed it nailed it perfect landing I'll tell you my yoke was deflected like this that's your neutral reference position you always yoke into the wind because if you don't you go blowing off into lala land and you can actually depart the runway drag your down well downwind and the cells your motors and it just gets ugly and I'll tell you what I was scared and roll out I'm like oh my gosh this wind is cranking you know nervous a little bit nervous and rolled out and then my dad had a great nap at the time we had navigators in the plane at the time awesome gave me a high-five and it felt so good expect fear conquer fear what it prepped me for that mission that day I would say one mental preparation because I visualize doing it and also another thing that helped us during every simulator period I did in the kc-135 the semi operator goes hey dudes we got some time what do you want to do I was like dial up the crosswinds dude dial them up let's go the guys I was always with would never do this why because well if you get get up you know you get worst grade in the sim you can actually fail like whatever dude so sim I want to practice become because I know sooner or later that day is gonna come out and I want to train for success huh that's what I did I'd done 3525 not crosswind landings from both sides in the kc-135 I got good at him I didn't fear him well I still kind of feared him because it's a lot it's a handful of jet expect fear conquer it train out fear by practicing and you guys who are you know and other services totally do that you know the realistic training is where it's at and then here comes another story for you now the army at the time integrated I'm at 40 minutes when I wrap it up soon I actually was a safety officer later in my Air Force career FSO flight safety officer and I actually loved serving in that because it directly contributed to our war fighting capability because it made our operation safer it made my guys my fellow pilots safer and more knowledgeable to handle emergencies and calm conditions which we encountered I'm going to cover those in other parts of the video you'll like it as a flight Safety Officer I actually Institute or help Institute a program at Fairchild called operational risk management whoa-ohh RM then fancy I just stop watch the video uh Air Force guys go Orem that's so idiotic uh maybe depends how it's instituted but there is one very real concept in RM that you really need to understand and that is Wayne risk and managing risk I guess I'll throw that talking point out right now is Wayne risk and managing risk that army which I learned to my study had instituted the m1 Abrams it's a turbine-powered tank you guys know that's MBT main battle tank its companion vehicle was an infantry fighting vehicle still is Tim the Bradley Fighting Vehicle x m2 m3 it's paired up with the same type of turbine motor guys that watch this video the drive it know exactly what your comments will tell you all about it lots info out there a great vehicle their problem they're having I think somewhere along the mid 90s maybe the early 1990s is there how rollovers with those Bradley's they have these young kids and training events both Marine Corps guys army guys that in the training event they'd get really excited and that thing was fast I mean we're talking that turbo turbine powered Bradley can get up and go is meant to be paired with that m1 Abrams you know the IFES carrying the infantry the Abrams heavy armor so they're paired up go another thing and you know they would catch air with this Bradley and next thing you know the thing rotates and they land upside down and three guys get killed happened happened several times so the army just arbitrarily and this is the military all services are guilty of this they go you know what we're going to put a speed limit on the IFE actually going to put a governor on it I think they did speed limit in later governments like we're not going to let you use it to its maximum potential and so they started artificially constraining this weapon system some major in the US Army goes you know what this guy was squirrel a quiet professional Hughes I forget what his job was I knew all the details one time he goes this is kind of stupid what is because we're limiting our weapon system the whole reason that it has turbine powered it's so fast because it dodges enemy fire okay the IFV the bradley IFE it doesn't have heavy armor it dissonance feet yeah it's got a 25 millimeter chain gun or whatever it carries a Bushmaster that's defensive armament most cases it's meant to get in and get out when you say these guys can go over 40 miles an hour whatever the speed limit was you are risking their lives how about we do this he said how about we train our drivers to be better how about we give them the skillset to manage the power and we give them realistic training so he developed a training program for the Bradley and he started making these drivers these young kids run around that IFE experts at the weapon system Wow he's like okay dudes you got a lot of power that's how you're going to use it you get shot at you need to just take a deep breath look at the freaking terrain in front of you because you can kill everybody on board that young driver will understand that you have variances and skill levels but they understood that they took all the governors off the game the full speed like this is how you read the terrain they put them in simulators they drove them and the rollover rates reduced by like 75% with his program with reap maintaining and honestly actually enhancing weapons system credibility and effectiveness and I thought that was an awesome story awesome story way risk we have a risk here manage it don't run away from it manage it get better at it there we go I'm at my time limit dudes that's part one Air Force stories with that fancy when I come back I think I'm gonna start talking you're still more things I got to tell them today about the quiet professional expect fair conquer it other fun stuff I hope you're not getting bored as an advancable see you in part 2

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Id: BtO3k4CDb8M

Length: 47min 37sec (2857 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 11 2012