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The Afterburn Podcast

Alex Grandahl | U.S. Army National Guard Blackhawk Pilot

The Afterburn Podcast

John "Rain" Waters

Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

5961 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Join John Waters as he hosts this episode of the Afterburn Podcast with his guest, U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Alex "Malibu" Grandahl.

Transcript

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0:00.0

actually have a letter at that one point that said unfortunately Mr. Grantall will never be an officer in an aviator in the United States Army.

0:07.5

So that was pretty crushing.

0:11.5

It was at that point I switched over it was working at an FBI at a local airport watching other people get to fly without the opportunity to do it myself

0:19.6

Which was probably a good thing because it has that motivation, right?

0:23.1

You get to watch somebody do the thing that you want to do and it's one of the bases or

0:27.4

one of the airports we train at, so I would see Black Hawks and Chinooks come in and it's,

0:31.8

ah, like, this is, we got to figure out how to make this happen.

0:36.1

So take a breath, relax, recaged, and go into it.

0:39.1

So that was something that I learned pretty early with the racing thing.

0:42.4

That being said, I also crashed a lot so it

0:44.9

wasn't super successful in in the racing thing so I learned how to like go

0:51.5

limp when you when you get a wall.

0:55.0

Got hit 160 times in three months between IDF and one-way drone attacks.

1:01.0

So things completely changed almost instantly.

1:05.3

That's on.

1:07.3

Next day.

1:08.3

Six time, $13,000.

1:10.3

I'm probably give you some of that.

1:11.2

And everyone.

1:12.2

Malibu, man, thanks for joining me on the podcast.

1:14.0

Happy to have you on here.

1:15.0

Thanks for having me.

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