Ep 179: A-10 Pilot, Flying Cross Recipient Kim "Killer Chick" Campbell
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Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In April 2003 in Iraq, Kim "Killer Chick" Campbell flew a mission that defied logic and common sense. Responding to a call for help from a ground force about to be overrun, KC risked her own life to save them. The enemy always gets a vote, and then Captain Campbell's A-10 was almost shot down.
With no hydraulics, in a plane that shouldn't have been able to fly, KC did what only 2 or 3 other pilots have lived through- she flew her A-10 back to friendly control in manual reversion. For her actions that day, she was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Colonel Campbell was kind enough to talk about her amazing career- from becoming the first father/daughter Cadet Wing Commander pair at the United States Air Force Academy, to pilot training, to becoming an A-10 pilot, to her current passion project, the Special Operations Transition Foundation.
Her dedication to service continues to this day- and we can now add "Best Selling Author" to her list of remarkable accolades. Pre-order her first book, "Flying In The Face Of Fear- A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading With Courage" on Amazon- https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Face-Fear-Fighter-Lessons/dp/1394152353 .
If you are a Special Operator getting ready to transition out of the service, check out SOTF.org for all the help you need for the next step in your journey.
We are truly honored to tell the story of Col Kim "Killer Chick" Campbell, and we appreciate her coming on. Hope you all enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? We're about to jump into the one of the most unbelievable podcasts |
| 0:11.0 | that we've ever recorded here at the One's Ready Studio. Kim, Killer Chick, Campbell, the |
| 0:16.4 | legend, Distinguished Flying Cross with Fowler, one of the only pilots to ever land in A10 |
| 0:21.6 | in the manual reversion mode. We had a great talk. I just want to say thanks to Rebels |
| 0:25.2 | Creed, shout out to the T-shirt. Thanks for everything that you guys are doing as a new |
| 0:29.0 | company. Go check Rebels Creed out. You can find them on IG and on RebelsCree.com. So |
| 0:35.2 | thanks to those guys. Here we go with the podcast. Kim, Killer Chick, Campbell, thanks |
| 0:39.5 | for everybody coming out. Here we go. Welcome back, everybody. The One's Ready podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | I can't actually believe I'm about to have this episode happen, but here we are. So Aaron, |
| 0:48.6 | as you well know, hi. How are you, friendly, local neighborhood PJ? Today on the podcast, |
| 0:53.3 | we have Kim, Killer Chick, Campbell, ma'am. Welcome to the podcast. How are you? |
| 0:57.9 | Great. Thanks for having me. Well, it's my honor where you were talking just before we got on |
| 1:03.5 | here. I'm a bit of a fanboy. I've known your story since it happened as a young airman, |
| 1:07.9 | and then young staff sergeant before I cross-trained back in a pair of rescue. So you were one of |
| 1:12.9 | those people in the Air Force that I looked up to and sort of a fanboyed a little bit over. |
| 1:18.5 | So we're going to jump into that story now, but as always, why don't you tell us a little bit |
| 1:22.7 | about yourself and how you came to be in the Air Force? Yeah, sure. I decided when I was in 5th grade |
| 1:30.2 | that I was going to be a fighter pilot. So this was kind of a lifelong dream for me. Yeah. |
| 1:34.4 | 5th grade, that's also did. So we'll talk about it. I know your dad was actually in the Air Force, |
| 1:39.4 | too. Is it because you know, grew up in a military family or where did that love that was like |
| 1:43.0 | come from? You know, actually, my dad got out of the Air Force when I was born, you know, right |
| 1:49.2 | around that same time. So I didn't grow up as an Air Force brat, but I decided I was going to be |
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