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#092 - Ivan Cruz - Army Aviator

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You will now enter free range American podcast presented by Black, White, Black, Coffee,

0:10.0

Dr.

0:11.0

Oh, all right.

0:18.4

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.

0:30.7

And you're my first guest for free range aviation.

0:34.2

Wow.

0:35.2

Yeah.

0:36.2

Wow.

0:37.2

I've been, thank you so much.

0:38.2

Ivan is here with us from Dallas, Fort Worth area.

0:41.5

You retired from the Army?

0:44.2

Yes, I retired from the Army after 20 years.

0:47.0

I was back in 2017 now.

0:48.8

Okay.

0:49.8

And you were a Chinook pilot.

0:52.3

Yes, sir.

0:53.3

I was a, I actually started first four years when the Air Force as a military, all security

0:59.5

forces.

1:00.5

Oh, God.

1:01.5

The air force is going to, yeah, we're going to, yeah, I'm sure we'll get a real beret

1:04.2

with her.

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