Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the ones ready podcast. You're in the team room. And we are going to continue our love for

Takpees, especially our particular love for officers. So we decided to bring a Takpee officer on to chat a little bit. Maybe this time, Trent won't get chastised.

Yeah, I was against it. By the way, I was totally against this whole endeavor. It's his anxiety. I wish we had a level so I could watch how high his anxiety level is because he thinks he's going to get berated by yet another Takpee officer.

Well, sir, we appreciate joy to us. We have Captain Ryan McClairey. I'm sorry, not McClairey McClairey. Really bad. Appreciate joining us, sir. Yeah, no worries guys. I seriously you guys have had some legends on here. I feel like I have no business being on here. So hopefully I can say something that makes sense and is helpful to somebody. So thanks for having me on.

No, it's a it's a don't worry about it. We feel the same way because I tell you what, when I, you know, on this thing with people like Tony to groan and.

Tommy Tommy K's Mike Lampy JK corn. I mean, just yeah, I mean, it's just like, okay, why are you talking to me? But okay, cool. We'll just keep it up. Right. Yeah, I think we had like in the last like two months or something. We had almost everybody that was involved in Eagle Claw and like the Sante raid and Vietnam. And I'm sitting here like, wow, I am a complete and total nobody. So don't worry. Don't worry. You're a good company.

It's a good reminder to tell yourself every once in a while. So well,

I meant to worry, sir. Yeah, absolutely. So like we actually have, we've never met before. So tell us a little bit about yourself tracking that you're attacked the officer.

But I believe you're in the guard. So you go into a little bit of your background of what you're doing right now. Yeah, sure. So I joined tack the officer right out of the gate.

And so I graduated from UCF in 2015. And I went to tack the officer phase two before that. So I went my junior year. I did not get selected. I went back my senior year, got picked up.

And then shortly after went to through the tack the pipeline.

First duty station was Fort Stewart, Georgia. And so 15th ASOS. So I was there at the time they were doing a four year commitment out of your commissioning source.

I think now it's like six years once pipelines complete. But at the time it was four years. So when I finished up my four years at Fort Stewart,

I basically was trying to make the call am I going to go to the schoolhouse because I really wanted to either try to do a schoolhouse instructor gig or go guard.

And either way, family oriented choice at the time I was still married, but I'm married and I have two kids. And so we're just trying to figure out maybe a change of pace for a little bit and end up going the guard route.

So I joined the one 65th ASOS and Savannah, which it actually ended up working out because I ended up getting to take over kind of the one level program there, which for anyone who's not tracking it's basically pre schoolhouse or pre pipeline guys come through the one level program they pass an IFT and then kind of get run through the ringer run through an FTX.

And then when you bless off on them, then they're able to go to the schoolhouse. So it was kind of cool to get the best of both the world to get to go guard, but still have kind of like a little taste of the schoolhouse.

And then after about a year of that, I crossed over to just an operational flight. And so I've been a flight commander since then.

Whenever I joined the guard, I joined part time and so traditional and then I had to get a big boy job on the outside.

So I was actually pretty tough. So anyone who tells you getting a job on the outside is easy because you have a clearance is like full of it.

I thought I had it all lined up with connections now. I thought I had it all lined up with connections and everything and like every single one of those felt through.

And I was like a week away from filing for unemployment and then basically the TACP who was worked for L3 Harris hooked to me up with this FSR gig.

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