Hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready podcast. We're happy to have you. I have a very

special guest. I don't know. Do you want me to call you voodoo or we? All right. So we've

got voodoo with us who appreciate you joining us. I'm going to talk to you rather than the

camera because it makes it easier and a little bit more personable. So thanks for joining us.

You have a pretty awesome story and that we're going to get to and like I told you about

before, Colonel Ahoski dimes you out about coming on to the podcast and about the awesome story

because I wasn't tracking that you were involved with each guy at like a major major part of it

and one of the kind of cool things that Colonel Ahoski tells all the all the wugs is they're

as they're graduating or even through the course is that you never know when your time is

going to be called to lead and mission plan and entire and orchestrate an entire event which

you did with with the h kaya evacuation so and that was your time. So first off though what made

you want to join the Air Force and did you always want to fly C-17s or I was born into the Air Force

okay strange enough my father was actually stationed here at Nellis for his first assignment

he was in the aggressor squadrons he flew F-16 so my family lived here and loved it here

and then I was born at McDell and so I was born into the Air Force knowing that this was my family

he actually passed away when I was small child around three years old he was in Denmark and we

were moving over there to do a NATO tour and it just flew house fire during that time. But that

actually is a positive note in my life because I learned so much about what it means to be a part

of the Air Force because his squadron mates became family for me. They are my uncles they were there

for high school college graduation UPT grad weapon school graduation they called in like they

were there throughout my entire life and so even though I didn't have him in person in my life his

memory lived on and so I always kind of knew I wanted to fly my grandfather flew my dad flew

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