Welcome back to the ones ready podcast. I'm here with Brian Shimard. We just pulled you out of the ATA to talk to you and we've been talking about

getting an E5 on here for a long time.

And the reason for that is you are where the rubber meets the road. You do the job which is what's your job I'm sorry?

Say it again sir? What's your job?

So I'm a 3 echo 9 seaburn defense specialist. Sorry? A 3 echo 9abirded Defense Specialist and Air Advisor as well.

And then Air Advisor, what does that mean in like regular people terms?

What is your job?

So day to day, I'm a training in C. I see and a logistics in C. I see so I handle your

C. Beren defense training on base. Okay. And then the air advising the

pitch is we train advised assist, assist, equip, assess, and accompany

foreign military forces at the request of that government and what we do down

range is basically try to accomplish national defense strategy and national security

strategy objectives by win through that partner. Yeah no big deal.

No big deal. How do you become an air advisor? So I kind of got tagged through a weird circumstance.

Obviously with a shift towards Ace and

What is it?

We've got to explain Ace.

I'm sorry. Agile combat employment, right? So shifting

towards a near-peer adversary and all that stuff. Our career field is trying to be a little

bit more high speed. We're trying to move towards working to directly support EOD and

security forces task forces. So they'll put the idea that I've heard flowed around

is a couple EOD techs, a couple defenders, and then a couple of the Ceburn Defense Specialists.

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