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The Rich Somers Report

How He Escaped a Near-Death Experience in an F-22 Fighter Jet | Joshua "Cabo" Gunderson E220

The Rich Somers Report

Rich Somers

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

5910 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Rich sits down with Joshua "Cabo" Gunderson -- a Lieutenant Colonel with the Nevada Air National Guard and former combat pilot. Joshua started his career at the United States Air Force Academy, graduating with degrees in geospatial science and Spanish in 2008. During F-15 pilot training, he received several awards including Distinguished Graduate and Top Gun.From 2008-2019, Joshua was stationed at various air bases including Okinawa, Japan and Anchorage, Alaska, where he t...

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the thought of ejecting never even crossed my mind at the time because it all happened within

0:03.2

fractions of seconds you know and the mishap happening my reaction time the engines you know

0:08.8

spooling up to full power when they did all those little minor miracles that had to happen to keep me alive and

0:14.9

keep the airplane in the air or like back in the air.

0:17.8

We're pretty crazy but I never thought about ejecting at the time.

0:22.1

Welcome to the Rich Shummers, where we talk real estate, business, and wealth building,

0:26.2

all while keeping it real.

0:27.5

No fluff, no BS.

0:29.1

I hope that you enjoy the show.

0:39.0

All right guys, welcome to another episode of the report today. I am super excited because I got someone who is in the aviation space and I got a

0:44.8

little background in aviation myself being an air traffic controller for 11 years

0:48.0

but for this conversation I got to talk shop I got my man Josh Cabo Gunnerson Josh welcome to the show brother.

0:55.7

Thanks so much for having me appreciate it. Yeah dude appreciate you coming on man and

0:59.0

very excited I would say since I've been a kid I've nerdly just been really like I just

1:06.2

geek out on aviation whenever I see an airplane fly by I'm like oh my God I just

1:09.5

stop and stare I had literally still watch airplanes like to this day from my place here in downtown

1:16.2

San Diego like land and take off and it's just like super fascinating to me even at age

1:21.4

38 dude so thank you for coming I'm excited it's yeah

1:24.4

I think aviation is one of those things even if you understand like you're back on

1:28.1

air traffic control or flying when you see an airplane flying there's something

1:31.6

magical and when it's especially when it's like little kids

1:34.7

Growing up and seeing airplanes flying like the sparkle in their eyes like them being very excited about aviation

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