#092 - Ivan Cruz - Army Aviator

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

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Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Jarred Taylor welcomes Ivan Cruz to his home studio in Texas to share stories of Ivan's career as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilot. Ivan shares highlights from training, deployments, preparing for his post-military career and even lets us in on what a "Black Cat Takeoff" means.

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0:00.0	You have now entered Free Range American Podcast, presented by black rifle coffee.com.
0:15.1	Oh, all right.
0:17.8	This is the first episode of Free Range Aviation specials, where I am going to be exploring
0:28.0	the world of aviation this year. And you're my first guest for Free Range Aviation.
0:34.4	Wow. Yeah. Wow. Thank you so much.
0:37.5	Ivan is here with us from Dallas-Fort Worth area.
0:41.4	You retired from the Army?
0:44.4	Yes, I retired from the Army after 20 years.
0:47.0	That was back in 2017 now.
0:48.7	Okay, okay.
0:49.5	And you were a Chinook pilot.
0:52.5	Yes, sir.
0:53.2	I actually started, the first four years when the Air Force as a military, well, security forces. Oh, God. And the Air Force is going to get real. Yeah, we're going to, yeah, I'm sure we'll get that. The real beret where you're here. Everybody. We all know, what is it? They used to say SF. Yeah, that's part of SF. The SF. Yeah, transition from the Air Force to the Army as a warrant officer, then flew there for the next 16 years.
1:21.0	Wow.
1:22.2	So you grew up kind of close to where me and Dave did. You said he went to high school and Spanway?
1:29.8	Yeah. So I am a I'm an army brat my dad was in the army as well so i've gone to school up in fort hood here
1:36.2	fort louis uh quite a few places all around but yes i did go to school up in in tacoma washington
1:42.4	oh yes all too familiar with that area.
1:46.2	So how did, did you get actively recruited while you were in the Air Force for the Warren Officer program?
1:54.3	Or how did that come about?
1:56.2	You know, to be honest with you, all I ever wanted to do was be around airplanes.
2:02.6	And so my dad was an army, told me to join the Air Force.
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