Hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready podcast. You are in the team room and we've

got Aaron with us and we also have command chief Tom Shaver. So Tom achieves whatever

you're in the team room. We don't typically use rank unless they're trying to eat well

unless it's simsaf or unless it's somebody else that you know can just destroy me on

active duty. So I don't think you can destroy me. I can't if you got to kill it. You got

to kill my name first and then you can kill me. But welcome to the podcast. You're in

the team room. Please tell us a little bit about yourself because you have quite an awesome

upbringing. I mean you're attacked by trade but I don't want to I don't want to ruin

it. So go right into it Tom. Give us a little bit of balance your background. Sure.

So I was born in 19 odd 75. Let's say I come from I'm not a military brat. A lot of

a lot of people mention that they grew up at the military. But I do have a family heritage

and military service. My father. My father was in World War II with 101st. His first

action was Operation Market Garden. At uncle it was a B26 bomber pilot in World War II

in Korea. Retired as a colonel in the Air Force. Happy 75th birthday because he transitioned

when the Air Force started. My nephew's Marine Corps, my stepson's in the Navy. My wife

is a chief mass active duty chief mass sergeant. So that kind of propelled me is really my

path in life to go to military. Tag P by trade as Peach said. Did that my whole career

and actually leads me to kind of a funny thing being a command chief in the Air Force.

You would expect that have a little bit more Air Force base experience. But really I've

only been stationed on two Air Force bases. Toonson and Nellith. Nellith a few times. But I

had to learn to keep power curve for learning the true day to day functions of a large Air Force

base when I when I first got the job as the operations group superintendent on Nelliths

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