Part of the irony to me its greatest threat has actually not been the incredible hostile environment that is war and all this different anti aircraft.

It's been bureaucratic decisions and yet it still has kept on truck it.

So it is survivable in more ways another one.

Another someone, single-position.

Roger Hatton.

It's still on.

Wait, somebody got hit on the road.

What's out of there?

Get out of here. There's nothing in the terminal!

Don't find me, boys. Hello and this is the first episode of

Hello and welcome to the fighter pilot podcast.

I am your host Vincent Iello and this is the first episode of 2024. It number 182 will be revisiting the A10

Thunderbolt 2 or Wharton hog really but first how you doing how's the new year

going it's going well for me and I hope it's true for you as well.

I'm let's see I don't know have I done any New Year's resolutions? Not really I haven't had a drink yet this year but that's only because my family's been gone and it's not a good idea to drink alone but let's see

I'm five days into this as I'm recording so maybe we'll see how long we can go could be tonight

who knows anyway let's see I've got one quick announcement, a couple listener questions, and then we'll get to our interview, which is with Mr. Hal's son, who, unlike most of our guests, is not a military member or veteran at all. He's an author. So we'll get to that in a second

but first I want to share this email from Colin. It says I got the call yesterday

that I was selected to go to OCS and flight school. I go to OCS in February and will report to NAS Pensacola

afterwards, presumably.

I wanted to thank you for the podcast and always being a friendly voice of

motivation for the hundreds of others like me out there,

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