Hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready podcast you're in the team room and

today we are graced with the Tomahawk 1 I'm going to call you because you are the commander of the 16th

weapon squadron. Blitz Norman I appreciate you joining us. You bet Peaches. Thanks for the invite. Squadron. but honored to be a part of this so thank you no absolutely and thanks for

thanks for taking time out of your day because I know as the commander you are you

are busy and we just got back we have had a a full-on day of

visitations from from higher level of leadership and senior leader engagement.

Heavy Lazy Crown.

Yeah, yeah, right there.

So, I don't imagine you set out when you're in high school to become

Tomahawk One, didn't even know what Tomahawk One was. Yeah. But so what brought you into the Air Force then?

Yeah, well, so I didn't even say it would be Tomahawk one a couple months ago

because I never thought this opportunity would be real.

Golly, ever since I was little Peachesaches I wanted to fly an airplane. My parents

were an aviators military service skipped a generation for me but I'd watch

this movie I'm sorry to say called Top Gun.

Five years that it was I would watch like five or six years after it was produced

and I thought that looked pretty cool.

And then growing up I wanted to be all sorts of stuff but the constant thread was I wanted to fly airplanes you know I want to be all sorts of stuff, but the constant thread was I wanted to fly airplanes.

I want to be a lawyer fly airplanes.

I want to be a firefighter, fly airplanes.

And so that was kind of the consistent thing.

Then we got to high school, and then that's kind of where it became pretty

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