Refueling the Mission - SMSgt Palmer's Journey as a Boom Operator

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Education, Special Reconnaissance, Special Operations, Air Force, Pj, Combat Control, Tactical Air Control Party, Self-improvement, Fitness, Selection, Health & Fitness, Pararescue, Special Warfare, Tacp, Government, Assessment And Selection, Cct

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this engaging episode of the Ones Ready Podcast, we're joined by SMSgt Palmer, a skilled KC-135 boom operator from Fairchild, who sheds light on the intricate world of aerial refueling. SMSgt Palmer delves into the various facets of the boom operator community, including the introduction of the KC-46 and its impact on the team. She expresses her passion for the KC-135, an aircraft with a significant legacy in the Air Force, and discusses its continued relevance in f...

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0:00.0	And one's ready in the back at the ATA. Appreciate you sitting down with us.
0:12.0	Thank you. Thank you.
0:13.0	Thank you for having me.
0:14.0	Absolutely.
0:15.0	So I just want to make sure we are talking to Senior Mouse Hard and Palmer.
0:18.0	I am, yes.
0:19.0	And you were just introduced to me by Zena,
0:22.0	and you are a boom operator by trade anyway.
0:26.3	By trade yes I'm a Casey 135 boom operator at Fairchild.
0:30.4	Okay so tell us a little bit about the kind of boom community.
0:34.0	So it's kind of broken up into three subset communities right now.
0:39.0	You have 46 booms, KC-10 booms, which are obviously in a transition stage, and then K.C. 135 booms as well.
0:48.0	Are you guys excited about the new case?
0:51.0	K.C. 1. 46.
0:55.0	C46.
0:57.0	Honestly, there's like mixed feelings about it, right?
1:02.1	Something new, so there's always some resistance with a new
1:05.1	platform coming online. A lot of people like to stay what they know and what they
1:09.2	love, right? So they have missions that they love that they've done for years and years.
1:14.0	They really like to hold on to their communities.
1:16.0	And it's just a new community being brought into something that's already been established for so many years.
1:21.0	So I can see how that can be a challenge for some people like just like me I
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