What's up?

up ready to be?

What's up everybody? Welcome back to the One's Ready Team Room.

I stole the intro from Jared this time because sometimes you can catch a chief slipping and that's what I did today.

We are in a team here today, good friend Chris, PJ, extraordinary and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Chris, thanks for sitting down and talk to us, man, what's up? Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Yeah, absolutely, man.

Been I, it was a long scheduling issue for you and I to finally figure out when it is we could

get it on, but it's mainly because you have a schedule that's important and I am just a terrible

person so for everybody out there just kind of uh tell us about your story man obviously you know

you're an well not obviously you're obviously now that I'm about to say it is you know

Air Force Para Rescue men out of the Cali unit for a long time so what what got you into the Air Force?

What got me in?

Really I was

goes all the way back to 94. I was climbing in Alaska and I met a couple guys from the Alaska team on a

they were coming off the Denali rotation and they had all

the gear and I had to save for like two years and work a couple of jobs in gear companies to be able to get discounts so I could afford it to go out there and climb.

And so I just asked him like what do you guys do man? You got all the Gucci gear and either your professional climbers or, you know, and I was pretty interested.

So we had the whole trip back from Taukeetna to Anchorage for them to tell me about all their escapades.

So I was like, all right, when I get back, I'm going to do that.

I want to be you guys.

So Alaska being a guard team. It was a I reached out to their recruiters. Got on took the

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