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Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

#087 - Preston Wallace - The Old Breed

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Logan Stark continues The Old Breed series hosting former Marine FA-18 Pilot and BRCC employee, Preston Wallace. Preston shares his experiences performing multiple roles in the Marine Corps from flight school and missions over Syria and Iraq to working as a forward air controller with a line unit.

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0:00.0

I'm good. Thank you for having me. Of course, I'm super excited now because we're at this

0:29.1

point in Black Rifle Coffee where we're in this growth and expansion period and it's super awesome

0:37.3

to have individuals like yourself who served in a pretty cool capacity in the Marine Corps doing

0:43.7

something completely different and now kind of finding that new track in their life and I wanted to

0:50.9

take this opportunity to come back and kind of tell some stories from your time in the Marine Corps and

0:57.5

and maybe you know get a good idea of what it was like to be a F-18 pilot. Sure, yeah,

1:05.5

shoot away. So Preston Flamer Wallace and I know you told me this before but I can't remember exactly.

1:16.1

How do you go about picking your call sign as a pilot? So sure, fire away to pick your call sign

1:24.3

is to say that you don't like it because you don't actually get a choice. The way that call sign

1:30.3

or view board works and it's an official board. A call sign review board. I like that word like

1:36.3

this formal. It is a very cool thing. Yes. So usually how it works is a week prior. They'll put up a

1:43.5

white board and they'll put up the new guy's name who doesn't have a call sign yet and then everybody

1:48.7

else in the squadron thinks of a funny story or something that they have done that was stupid,

1:53.6

generally, and write some kind of moniker based on that. Yes. Yes. And go ahead. So I happen to have a

2:03.8

small inflight fire at one point in flight school and so it really wasn't that big of a deal

2:11.9

but the brakes caught on fire. So all right, you got to get a little bit more into the weeds on that.

2:18.8

Like it. You're like I want to it seems like we need to put small into quotation marks here.

2:24.6

It is like I don't know how there's a tiny small fire like. Did you have a couple twigs?

2:29.1

Yeah. Like my fire is definitely small. I was in flight school and flight school sounds awesome

2:34.9

and it's great and everything like that. You get to fly and everybody thinks they're cool and they

2:38.1

got their leather jacket and everything. But it's just a lot of administrative style flying. So

2:44.7

a lot of take-offs and landings and practice landings and stuff like that. And just the way that we

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