Ep 286: Air Force Special Warfare History with Morgan Huston

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Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Air Force Special Warfare's OFFICIAL (unofficial) podcast! In this episode, retired TACP, history buff, and librarian discusses the importance of history in the military and shares some fascinating stories from the history of Air Force Special Warfare. He talks about the origins of combat control and the role of pathfinders in World War II. He also highlights the heroic efforts of para doctors in Burma and the covert operations of weather teams in Yugos...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready
0:09.0	podcast you're in the team room and we have Morgan Houston with us appreciate you joining
0:14.1	thanks for having you guys yeah man so you're a a I guess retired TAC P right I
0:21.6	don't know if it's rated I tired. I didn't stay in long enough to retire.
0:25.2	Okay.
0:26.2	Yet you were a Tack P though.
0:30.7	Where did you serve at?
0:32.2	I was in Vicenza, Italy with the time. Yeah, I know tough life.
0:41.6	Yeah, it was good stuff.
0:43.0	I just happened to be because of the convoluted path my pipeline took.
0:48.0	I had to happen to go to jump school before I went to the schoolhouse.
0:51.0	So I had an option to go and work with the 173
0:55.0	Airborne boys. Yeah you weren't on that jump into Iraq were you? I was the
1:02.3	follow-on guy.
1:03.0	Were you?
1:04.0	My boss was on the ground before the jump and then the guys jumped and then I was the next one in
1:09.0	working with all those.
1:11.0	There was only so many planes.
1:12.0	We had a lot of the Air Force guys on that jump though a couple of cops and controllers and it was great.
1:19.0	Yeah, the the the full story behind that whole jump is pretty funny.
1:25.4	We'll have to tell it a different time.
1:27.3	Unless, so your history buff,
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