Hey everybody welcome to

welcome to Battleground podcast today I have an amazing guest I've been

excited to talk to him for a while now. His name is

Shane Osborne. Shane is a former naval aviator who extended his tour after 9-11

to continue flying combat mission.

Shane was assigned to the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron,

one, the World Watchers.

And Shane kind of had an interesting experience in the air when he collided with a Chinese aircraft.

Somehow he managed to safely land the plane, but he along with 23 of his people who were on that plane, were surrounded

by the Chinese military for almost a month. Shane. Oh, now you're the CEO of RWH Energy, which is a company that is just like kicking

ass and taking names and it's Shane, it's an honor to have you here thank you for

giving us some of your time. Thanks for having me Sean appreciate it. So you got to take me back to the very beginning.

And tell me about how you decided to serve your country.

I know that flying is something that you wanted to do

since you were young.

Yeah, so my mom was, I was raised by a single mom.

She was director nurses at the Nebraska Veterans Home.

So I, after school weekends, holidays, I hung out with vets all the time here in World War II Korea war stories Vietnam obviously and so I always wanted to serve so I didn't go through life

Wonder what I was going to do I knew knew it. By the time I was in

second grade I was writing the papers about wanting to fly for you the Air Force

of the Navy and so I was lucky enough and I graduated high school in 92,

and that was the downturn, right?

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