260. On the Job with United States Air Force Colonel Shelly Mendieta

Ali on the Run Show

Ali Feller

Running, Fitness, Sports, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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"It doesn't matter if I'm a man or a woman. It just matters how I do my job. That responsibility I'm given is based on how I've done in the past, and how well they think I'm going to do in the future."

Welcome to the final episode in the On the Job series! Today, we are wrapping things up with United States Air Force Colonel Shelly Mendieta, who is the Vice Wing Commander of the 39th Airbase Wing in Incirlik, Turkey. As the #2 in command, Col. Mendieta is responsible for more than 3,500 military, civilian, and contractor personnel on base. She's also a Weapons System Operator in the F-15E fighter plane, having logged more than 2,400 flight hours! On this episode, Col. Mendieta talks about what it's really like flying those planes — which women weren't even allowed to fly when she first enlisted in the Air Force — and what it's like serving the country and being stationed overseas. She also talks about how being a runner makes her better in the air, and shares her take on being a woman in the military.

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0:00.0	The On The Job Series on the Alley On The Run Show is brought to you by TrackSmith.
0:04.4	Go to TrackSmith.com slash On The Run and use code On The Run 15 for 15% off your first
0:11.1	TrackSmith purchase.
0:12.3	Welcome to The Alley On The Run Show.
0:18.7	I'm your host Allie Feller and this is the final episode in the On The Job Series.
0:24.0	This season we've met six women with cool, unique, interesting careers from a funeral
0:30.0	director to a COVID-19 researcher to the president of an aquarium.
0:35.2	And today we get to add one more woman to that impressive lineup, Air Force Colonel Shelley
0:41.2	Mendieta.
0:42.9	When Colonel Mendieta first joined the Air Force, women weren't even allowed to fly fighter
0:46.9	planes.
0:47.9	Today, she's logged more than 2400 flight hours and in addition to being the Vice Commander
0:54.2	of the 39th Air Base Wing in Insurlic Turkey, she's also a weapons system operator for
1:00.2	the F-15E plane.
1:01.8	Google image that, it is one heck of a plane.
1:05.2	Colonel Mendieta is responsible for more than 3500 military civilian and contractor personnel
1:11.0	and of course, she's a runner.
1:14.0	This is a really inspiring and fascinating episode.
1:16.8	I love learning more about what it's like to serve our country and what it's like being
1:20.7	stationed overseas.
1:22.6	And of course, I loved hearing about what it's really like flying those big planes.
1:26.6	When I think of the Air Force and of military people flying planes, I very embarrassingly
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