Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Afterburn podcast. I'm Flashwick Fay. I'm here

honored to be here with Curly Pence. As we talked about in the introduction and in the first

episode with our Vietnam weasels, we're doing a evolution of seed month. This is part two of our

series. And today we're going to be talking about Operation Desert Storm. And like I said,

these wheels are my heroes. I've been doing the weasel thing for the majority of my career. And these are the guys

I look up to in the history of the mission and the organization and the people that are highly

trained and specialized in this mission are the people that

I've looked up to and want to learn from keeping that weasel spirit alive is why we're doing this so

this is going to be a fun day today I've been looking forward to it for a few weeks now

met curly on an f35 tour with his daughter raven who's our intel intel patch at

at hill who does an amazing job

and is a weasel in her own right.

But thank you to all of our supporters

and then we're going to kind of get with this.

So Curley, over to you.

Intros.

How did you get commissioned?

Pilot training and then just kind of getting into

up to being a weasel and desert storm well i was

very lucky i got to accept it into the uh class of 83 at the air force academy did my four years there

got a degree in engineering graduated went straight pilot training uh down in uh del rio by the sea

had a great time with a great group of guys down there.

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