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Our American Stories

An Air Force Pilot's Post-Retirement Career Dilemma: A Job at a Big Bank or the Pilot of Air Force 2

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, on the morning of September 11, 2001, Peter Braxton was the first military pilot in the air over the burning Twin Towers. It was his first day on the job. Not long after that, he flew multiple combat tours in the Middle East and then retired from the Air Force. Here’s Peter with the story about the phone call he received shortly after his retirement: "Do You Still Have Your Uniform?

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

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0:08.4

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0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

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0:34.7

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0:50.6

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

0:53.1

You search for the Our American Stories podcast, go to the IHeart Radio app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:00.2

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Peter Braxton was the first military pilot in the air over the burning twin towers in lower Manhattan.

1:09.9

It was his first day on the job.

1:12.1

Not long after he did multiple tours of flight combat in the Middle East

1:16.2

and then retired from the Air Force.

1:18.7

Here's Peter with the story about the phone call he received

1:21.6

shortly after his retirement.

1:24.9

You know, I was a distinguished graduate and why didn't you fly F-15s or F-22s or F-16s?

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