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I have some handsome individuals. I'm joined with Marty Scovlin Jr., not senior. Executive editor, Coffere Dye. Nolan Peterson, joining us from Ukraine and here, Schmeach.

Simeck. Schmeach. Schmeach. Frogonstien. Schmack. Yeah. I'm the one ugly one.

Yeah.

A couple of handsome guys and one ugly one. Yeah, but that mustache, though. It's, I got to compensate somehow, man. That tip to the mustache. That's a mean mustache. It's the new regs, guys. It's the new regs. And we wanted to jump on real quick. there's some interesting, there's some interesting international things going on.

And we've to jump on real quick. There's some interesting international things going on.

And we've got some subject matter experts to talk about it.

And Nolan, this is your first time joining us.

I want to get into your background a little bit.

You're a pretty interesting free-range American.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah. Well, I mean, let's take that as a cue there.

Nolan, kind of start us off. You're an Air Force Academy grad. And then you went in gallivanting

across France for a while before you went and got your your war boots on.

Yeah, so I graduated Air Force Academy in 2004 and then my first duty, if you want to call it that,

was two years of grad school in Paris, France.

And after that, went back and made the move from living in Paris to living in Columbus, Mississippi for pilot training,

which is probably the most difficult transition I've ever had in my life.

But I got out of pilot training, went in, started flying for Air Force Special Operations.

I flew an aircraft called the U-28,

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