On the Vinson, we had a patient that was critical and was 600 miles from Okinawa.

Took off and fluid airplane speeds with that patient right to the landing pad at Okinawa in Camp Foster.

That golden hour of patient care is extremely important.

Welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I am your host Vincent Iello Carl Sangello.

Joining me today in the Circle Air Group Studios here at Glezby Field in San Diego, California is U.S. Navy Captain Sam Bryant.

Carl Sangeflesh. Sam, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

That's good to have you. Now you are the wing commander for all CMV-22s. What in the Navy?

Yes, that's true. So the VRM, the Fleet Logistics Multimission Wing owns Squadron's East West and eventually here in Japan.

And we'll be in charge of logistics worldwide for U.S. Navy strikers.

Okay, but you are here in San Diego. In fact, we're practically neighbors. Awesome. Well, that's how you got there. Where are you from and what was your military path leading up to it?

So I'm originally from upstate New York, Ithaca, New York, home of Cornell University, and Ithaca College.

I went to the Naval Academy by way of the Naval Academy Prep School and then selected aviation out of there and got my wings.

And then I became a C2 Greyhound Pilot, VRC World. And I was a C2 Pilot, East West and Japan.

So I had experience all around the world flying C2s. Eventually became a CEO of VRC30 here in San Diego where I learned to love Southern California.

Then after my Squadron command tour, I went to the Pentagon where I was the requirements officer for CMV-22 as we were procuring the aircraft for the Navy as well as the legacy C2 Greyhound for sustainment.

For my sins at the Pentagon, they sent me to lead the transition for the CMV-22. We started that with the Marines actually down in New River, North Carolina.

So I surprised my wife with a two-year trip to North Carolina, which wasn't on a radar at the time.

And then we helped set up the community here in San Diego for standing up our wing in our first squadron, which is a VRM-30.

And then from there, flew it up from Deputy to Commodore, which I'm doing now. And we have now three squadrons stood up within the Navy and soon a detachment moving to Japan.

Okay. And you get a chance to fly the Osprey? Absolutely. Yeah. So I've been flying the Osprey just really since 2019 the MV version and then transition to the CMV version.

So it was pretty neat to get to fly a brand new aircraft in this late micro-year. Yeah, I bet. So how many hours in the Greyhound?

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