You can't make it home after missing your target and then go back to the bar and hang out with the Hang out with the rose and the gals, you know? I mean, you can, and I've missed plenty of targets. I missed one target in combat. We used to make fun of J-DAN. That was the new thing. Yep. You didn't have to do this amazing thing where you had to like blaze a weapon in you just had to make sure the

coordinates were good and then hit the button it was south of bagdad early in the conflict and i

remember i had two dimpies as i'm coming off target i'm staying visual doing my job at night and

like i cannot believe i did the thing that i made fun of everyone for. I didn't step the goddamn

thing and go to the next target. So I totally missed my second target. I remember rolling in with my

crappy lantern pod, convinced that there was a revetment with a AAA, like a towed artillery piece in it.

And my flight lead sigh was like, are you sure? And I was like, pretty sure one. I think so. And I'm just like, I got these GB12s. I want to roll in and do it. And I was convinced I saw it. It's a blob because, yeah, interpod, everything was a blob. And I rolled in and sure enough in the lazy, I'm like, that's dirt. I grew up to me. Our towered to light is 0.11.0.0.5. Clicked off. Seatide. Out to our zero eyes. We're clear for takeoff. Clear for the airspace. Fire projector. I was going to have a threat to a. On my program. Kerrples at 3.5.4. Turned.'s awesome. Next day. 19. 16. 13. 20. I'm going to read some of that. Whatever one. Everybody. Welcome to another episode of the Afterburn podcast on Flashwick Bay. I'm here with an incredible guest today. Probably one of the most, in my opinion, well-known Air Force pilots, not only for being an incredible fighter pilot

and tactician, but also for his outside of the military activities.

Current retired Trip Raymond. So boss, I really appreciate you coming on, and I'm really looking

forward to this conversation. Great to be here, Flash. I would disagree with some of what you said, but looking forward to talking to you and really cool to be here. Love the podcast.

Oh, no. And I love that we're doing this in your bar. It's going to be appropriate for a lot of our, for a lot of our conversations today. So, no, this is cool. We got to overlap a couple times for a couple in a couple

different spots in our career, one in Korea and then one at Shaw. But as we kind of kick

this off, just tell us about yourself, no threatening. I'm not going to tell you to sit down.

But how did you get involved in joining the Air Force commissioning and just kind of walk

us through your career, some of the highlights, some of the low lights on kind of start to finish just kind of walk us through your career,

some of the highlights, some of the lowlights on kind of start to finish and kind of what you're doing now. You bet. So I grew up outside of Philadelphia and honestly the military

was not in my cross check at all. I didn't really have anyone in the family that was in the military. I did

have an uncle who had his private pilot license and he took me up once or twice and I loved

that. But beyond that, it was not even something I ever considered. Even going to airships,

I was like, that's pretty cool. It's neat that some people get to do that that aren't from outside

of Philadelphia. So I had every

intention of just being an engineer. And I went to college, went to Boston University. And

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