Colonel Hall, thanks for joining me on the podcast. It's been a long time coming.

This is a perfect time to talk, and I've been meaning to do it because I talk about maintenance

a good bit and how it's the backbone of making everything happen.

So having you on here today to talk about maybe some of the challenges the Ukraine's facing,

how we make our jets fly, the amount of energy and time that goes into each and every one of those

flights. Really takes a lot of people in a big team effort, and it's going to be interesting

to talk about that today. So thanks for joining me on the podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me.

It was been great. I've been, you know, following your show since you started. And it was

great watching you do the demo back when we were at Shaw together.

So yeah, great to be on.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

Well, I do have to thank you.

I mean, I was very fortunate in doing the demo because of the leadership at Shaw, I think, was so on board from you.

Colonel Jackson being an opt-root commander.

Obviously, you have on the maintenance side of the house, Colonel O'Malley.

Because demo is a resource drain.

And I know while you were the maintenance group commander,

I undoubtedly broke jets and left them stranded on the road,

which was then taxing now at AMXS,

but I think now it's the fighter generation group.

Yeah, fire generation, which we started a job.

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