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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 110 minutes
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In episode 107 of the @AfterburnPodcast Nathan "Yokel" O'Kelly sits down to share his US Navy journey from enlisted to becoming an F/A-18 fighter pilot. "Yokel" dives into the challenges and demands of landing on an aircraft carrier, what it's like to be a Fighter Pilot, Landing Signals Officer, leadership, and much more.
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0:00.0 | You spend four years at seas, there's a lot of boat time. |
0:02.2 | A lot of boat time. |
0:03.2 | I mean, it's amazing you look at your LAS. |
0:05.4 | It's like, my goodness, four years, buddy, my tail. |
0:09.0 | People that didn't make it, some weren't meant to make it, |
0:11.9 | and some didn't put in the work. |
0:13.3 | I'm burner, hit, taxi, grab a wire. |
0:16.4 | My feet were shaking so much. |
0:19.0 | I was like, what just happened? |
0:21.2 | You launch off from the Persian Gulf, go drop 6,000 pounds worth of ordinance. You go get |
0:27.3 | gas, you come back to the carrier, you come in for a 615 night break at the carrier. Nothing that man don't miss night traps no man |
0:35.6 | I'm a old country boy I've never seen anything like the small life you walk up to an |
0:42.0 | aircraft carrier like how does this thing float you know what I mean? |
0:45.6 | Like this thing was enormous. You know introduced a long boulder and his front, his main mount hit the very front of the ship. |
0:53.5 | Now he has a vector down, main mounts hit, |
0:55.9 | the nose is gonna pitch over. |
0:57.6 | My friend wrapped car pulls at 354. |
1:00.1 | So we have left on. |
1:01.5 | Next drive, I'm sure, to make sure 16 13 times. I don't give you something about that. |
1:06.0 | Whatever one time. |
1:07.0 | Yoko, thanks for joining me on the podcast. Happy to have you on here. |
1:10.0 | Happy to chat about your career and learn a little bit more about you. |
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