Ep 176: Special Mission Aviator TSgt Derrick "Snooki" Schwenk

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Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail The Rescue and ST communities need hitters of all types- and that's exactly what Special Mission Aviators, or SMA's, are. They are responsible for keeping the aircraft in the air, maintenance, and being an active crew member- and they have been known to save your ass on the ground with a .50 cal or a minigun. TSgt Derrick "Snooki" Schwenk came on to talk all things aviation and being a special mission aviator- and we can't say thanks enough!!! Don't forget to subscrib...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the ones ready podcast you're in the team room.
0:11.2	Trent and I are here living the dream on a Saturday morning and joining us today by a very
0:18.0	popular request is Snooki.
0:20.4	Now Snooki is a special missions aviator and a lot of you guys have been pinging us about
0:25.0	it. So we figured we'd have one on since we happen to know one. So Snooki, welcome.
0:31.9	Appreciate you joining us.
0:33.9	Happy to be here. Happy to discuss the small career filled with you guys.
0:38.0	Yeah, man. So first off, give us a little bit of a background about yourself and then we'll
0:43.6	go right into some of the frequently asked questions that we get about the special missions
0:48.7	aviator, the SMAs or the smaws because you're we're just going to keep saying, saying
0:53.7	all that and everybody's going to be like, well, what the hell's the smaw? So now you know.
0:59.8	So born and raised just outside Hershey, Pennsylvania. So Hershey chocolate pretty much decided
1:07.1	when I was about 16, 17, I wanted to join the Air Force because I wanted to fly. When
1:11.7	I walked in the recruiters office, I pretty much said, I want to do this job and I pointed
1:15.3	to an aerial gunner ad or I'm not going to enjoy it. And so I sat in that maps and did
1:22.2	the debt and all that stuff for about a year until I actually joined.
1:25.1	I was about 2012 and then I joined, went through all of our training, which is about a year
1:30.3	and a half long, moved out to DM where I met my wife in F Tech. To point multiple times
1:37.9	Iraq, if you have a stand, opened up the Weird Turkey Syria border thing and then moved
1:43.4	out to Kadeena where I was in Okinawa for three years, did a lot of career trips and then
1:49.8	that came out to the weapon school in 2020.
1:52.9	Dan, you've been out there with me ever since I joined the weapon school anyway.
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