You're going to do you. Oh, All right, folks, welcome to the Team VTAC podcast. I'm your host Kyle Lamb, and we're out here in Oregon, and it is, it's wet.

Who would have thought that the rainforest would be wet?

Bill, what do you think?

I mean, you lived out here for a while, haven't you?

I've lived out here for close to 30 years now.

All right, Mike, how long you been here?

I was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest.

Right in this area around Portland.

Up in Seattle, and then after medical school,

I came back to Portland in 96.

All right, so he let the cat out of the bag, medical school. That's to make us look stupid, right?

Bill? That's not very hard either.

Okay, folks, so what we're out here doing, I've been coming out to Oregon now for, I don't know how many years have we been doing

these classes fourth class so fourth class over five years maybe something like that

so we've Luke Kiefer sets up the classes and we come out and teach and you guys I think have been in every class that I've taught so far so gluttons for punishment there

so Bill

Bill Keller what's your, tell us your background? I don't have much of a background.

You're an army guy at one time. I was an army guy all the way back in like 79 got out the first time I think in 82 or 83 did the infantry ranger medic thing and then got out had a long stint in the reserves doing a whole bunch of different stuff, firearms trainer and stuff and then actually went into 19th group in the reserves there and then got some wild bug up my butt and decided I was going to go to college.

So when I graduated from Oregon Health Sciences with a Bachelor's of Science and Nursing, I got commissioned

as an officer.

That put it into my my SF career so for some

certain reason I decided to jump ships branch transfer into the Air Force and

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