Episode 224 - General Clay Hutmacher

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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General Clay Hutmacher was a career United States Army Officer and retired in 2018 having served over 40 years in uniform. As an Army Special Operations Aviator, he commanded at every level during his three tours with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, where he served as the MH-60 Direct Action Penetrator platoon leader, company operations officer, executive officer, and commander of 1st Battalion, Regimental Commander, and the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command.

MG Hutmacher’s last active duty assignment was the Director of Operations in the U.S. Special Operation Command, Tampa, FL. His previous assignment was as the Deputy Commanding General of the United States Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, NC.

MG Hutmacher became the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Special Operations Warrior Foundation in September 2018.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Hope you had a good weekend. My guest today is Clay Hutmacher
0:04.2	and if we had met each other while we were both still serving, I would be calling him Sir because he was a general in
0:13.4	the army. We're talking rarefied air at this point. His background
0:20.0	the US Army special operations aviation. Now and actually before I go into that, he was in the military for 40 years,
0:27.2	which is an insane amount of time in my opinion. So Army special operations aviator. What does that mean? I'm talking about TF 160th.
0:34.3	The 160th special operations aviation regiment also known as the Knight Stalkers. And he started off enlisted, of course, because he's a good officer.
0:44.8	And in the Marine Corps started in the Marines when the Army aviation worked himself all the way up to two star general,
0:51.3	which I struggled to even understand what that would be like. And right now, now these out of the military,
0:56.3	he's the president and CEO of the special operations warrior foundation. It is a great job of talking about his background and
1:02.3	the special operations warrior foundation. So I will now shut my mouth and let you enjoy episode 224 with Mr. Clay Hutmacher.
1:30.6	How did you do 40 years in the military? First off, did you get out by your own choice or did they say, hey, you're out of here.
1:39.6	Yeah, like all our buildings are not ADA compliant and we need to get rid of you. How long can you actually serve in the military?
1:46.0	Is there a hard out time age wise? There is. I think it's it's either 62 or 65.
1:53.3	So let's say, oh man, this is going to test my math. If you join when you're 18, you could do 40.
1:58.8	You would put you a 58 plus another you do 47 years, right?
2:04.6	Man, you would not be prepared for life outside the military.
2:08.3	Well, no, I mean, you know, I'd be sitting in my front porch and I don't know whether I'd be a class to me back and I don't know my first name.
2:15.2	No, you know, it was a very
2:18.0	circuitous path for me, right? So I joined, I mean, I was 17.
2:23.6	I was a high school dropout and I joined, I was with the foster family and he was a marine in Korea.
2:31.1	It was an engineer guy. Yeah.
2:32.6	And, you know, I just knew, hey, I needed a swift kick in the ass and Marines seemed like I was actually going to join the Navy.
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