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The Afterburn Podcast

#95 Micah "Peachez" Porter | Top Gun Graduate | F/A-18 Fighter Pilot to F-16 Air National Guard

The Afterburn Podcast

John "Rain" Waters

Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

5961 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

"Peachez" is a former F/A-18 turned F-16 fighter pilot. "Peachez" shares his journey of overcoming several hurdles to becoming a fighter pilot in the Navy and eventually an F-16 pilot in the Air National Guard. "Peachez" is a Top Gun Graduate and former instructor at the US Navy's West Coast Weapons school.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

We turn inbound, we accelerate probably about 15,000 feet, and both my wingman and myself we drop two J-M's.

0:09.0

We take the building down and it collapses on itself.

0:12.0

We see a couple of squirters or people that escape from the

0:15.8

building, but I think there was a total of nine in there and one only saw two people

0:19.7

escape and then there were some special operations that cleaned those folks up.

0:24.0

So there was a ton of excitement on the radio.

0:26.0

We still didn't know what happened.

0:28.0

We went and got some gas, we returned to the Harry East Truman and we went into intelligence and a lot of cheering going on a lot of high-fiving going on and we're like what do we do you know we still had no clue what we did we were excited

0:41.6

There's pure luck that we were there but at the time, which was very satisfying to me, they were actually the head of ISIS and the Nineveh province in Mosul was having a Ramadan breakfast

0:56.7

and he was the person who was responsible for commanding the execution of those hundred people in the first month.

1:04.0

We wound up getting him, his wife, and five or six other HBIs or high-value individuals that were in that building.

1:11.0

I would say I didn't solve a lot, but it wound up cutting down

1:14.3

for at least for a few weeks on the violence that was in that region.

1:16.6

But it was amazing to, again, go back and see some vindication

1:20.6

for what he had commanded five months earlier

1:23.0

and we want to be getting pure luck,

1:24.8

but we're in the right place in the right time and I'll take it.

1:27.0

Our entire state is released to you runway from the left

1:30.0

0-0 at 5.

1:32.0

With the takeoff. Zero and five take off. Seats hide, Alto and is our eyes.

1:34.0

We're clear for takeoff, clear for the airspace.

1:36.0

Fire projector.

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