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Ep 191: The Godfather of Special Tactics- CCT CMSgt (ret) Wayne Norrad

Ones Ready

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

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Before there was Air Force Special Tactics, there was Chief Master Sergeant retired Wayne Norrad. Chief Norrad started his career before the Air Force knew exactly what Combat Control was going to be and ended his career as the Second AFSOC Command Chief, and the accepted Godfather of what we know Special Tactics to be today. Chief Norrad is the definition of the word "legend", which is why we asked him to come on and tell us his story; it was so amazing we had to bre...

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What's up, everybody? Just before we jump into this amazing podcast with Chief Master

0:10.9

Sergeant Retired Wayne Norrad, aka The Godfather of Special Tactics, I wanted to put a quick

0:16.4

plug out there for afspecwar.com. It is literally the clearinghouse for every single piece

0:21.5

of information that you could possibly need. You know a bunch of times, you'll DM us

0:25.7

and you'll say, oh, I have this question. And the first thing that we ask you is, did

0:29.2

you check afspecwar.com from your IFT packet to directions on how to find a recruiter, which

0:34.7

we get all the time. There's a million different resources that are in one specific place.

0:40.0

So one more time, www.afspecwar.com. Check out the resources tab. Any questions that you

0:46.2

have, it's a great starting point. If you don't have your questions answered there, hit

0:49.9

us up on the DMs as always. Enough of me talking. We're going to get into this great podcast

0:54.0

with Chief Master Sergeant Wayne Norrad, The Godfather of ST. Ladies and gentlemen, boys

0:58.2

and girls, children of all ages. Actually, if you're under the age of like 15, you should

1:01.9

not listen to this podcast. Go outside and go play with some sports. We are extremely

1:07.8

excited. Obviously, Chief Peaches, myself, Aaron, back here in the team room. I don't know

1:14.0

how to properly describe the gentleman that we're about to sit down and talk to. I don't

1:17.9

know if we should say legend or giant or just maybe his commonly accepted nickname, which

1:23.2

is The Godfather of Special Tactics, himself, Chief Wayne Norrad. Chief, welcome to the

1:28.6

podcast. Thank you for sitting down with us. So I'm just going to turn it over. I have

1:36.5

a problem with overtalking. I would just like you to take a career that you have had and

1:41.3

tell people kind of what your experience is. And then of course, we're going to jump into

1:44.9

some specifics later. But can you just sort of give us a rundown of everything starting

1:49.8

back when you enlisted in the Air Force to where you are now?

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