And welcome back everybody to the ones ready podcast. It's your host Trent here with a very special guest. I mean we have an interesting relationship. Like I think we're friends, but also we hate each other. It's one of those types.

Lance Bello, Brogdick. Did I say that right? Or did I?

Hello, Brady. It's the J. It's a it's one of my first questions. So Lance, I want you to tell your story.

But do you think that it's an advantage growing up with a name that most people cannot pronounce?

Uh, probably in the military. Yes, because you're noticed very quickly.

Right. And then that could be a terrible thing too. If you look at it that way, because then they change your name because that's what happened to us.

Yeah. Well, we all called you B 11, right? Right. Yeah. That's what that's what happened to my dad when he joined the military did the same thing. It was a good last name.

I couldn't pronounce it. And then he maybe we got B a nice. Yeah, I just think it gives you a little bit of a superiority complex growing up as a kid. You know, my name is not nearest hard as yours pronounced, but like you just grow up thinking everybody's dumb because they can't figure a name out.

That's fair. Yeah. Yeah. I did like it later on, especially in Afsox because we had the operator initials thing.

And you know, everyone's, you know, first letter, whatever last letter, and then people would hop around depending if, you know, the duplicates are not.

And when when I was at what the two, the two one, yeah, the two one in in brag, I changed mine to be one one.

And everyone was just, you know, beside themselves. So like, you can't be, you can't be a number or a number or a letter in two numbers. And I was like, well, that's just what it is and people just let it go.

Yeah, it is what it is. Awesome. Well, hey, if you don't mind, introduce yourself a little bit. And then we, you know, walk down the road to where how you got to where you are now, wearing a shirt that I don't understand.

So I'm Lance Bellabritic. I served in the Air Force for, see, 13 years, 10 active, three guard. I was an intercaf maintenance first for about four years, then cross trained into Saudi as the first cross training, which was, you know, a story.

And then I did that for about 10 years or yet about 10 years and then got out for seven years, seven years and got out. I was in the guard up in Austin at Camp Maverick while I was going to school.

And then I got an internship and now I'm here at NASA. So I'm my full time job now was a space flight meteorologist. I worked for NASA as a civil servant.

I support space flight meteorology. So anytime we launch a rocket with humans or potential to have humans on a time. I'm, I'm providing the forecast for us to go find them. So really like the PJs and the Coast Guard that go and rescue these guys provided a

landing then they will go get them all the way up and do it all the way down. That's a lot to unpack there. That's a lot to unpack there. Yeah.

Well, let's, let's start at the beginning. You joined the Air Force. Like, I know you have a family. I think you were to mention your dad and the military. Was that one of the reasons that you ended up in the Air Force?

Yeah, it not directly our dad. My dad served 33 years Army. He did. He started off as a contractor and listed. He did. He was a bit of service.

What's the end between officer and. Oh, I weren't. Warren officer. There you go. He was a Warren officer for a little bit commissioned officer. I ended up flying a patchies and longbows.

During desert storm and multiple tours and rack on stuff. So I grew up in a military family. You know, moved around quite a bit. But, you know, if you would, if you would ask him if he wants to, because people ask him, do you want your kids in the military?

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