RPA Sensor Operator to Group SEL - CMSgt Joshua Sjoholm

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

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Ones Ready Podcast, we welcome Chief Sjoholm, who shares his inspiring Air Force journey. Chief Sjoholm's career began in 2001, originating from Wisconsin, and found his path in the world of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). Spanning over two decades, he played a pivotal role in the evolution of the RPA community, witnessing its transformation from an intelligence-focused asset to a crucial element in both combat and support roles. Chief Sjoholm provide...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready podcast we have
0:10.1	chief show home I got that right? He did, yeah.
0:12.8	Boom!
0:13.8	All right, appreciate you joining us.
0:15.7	So you're not familiar with the podcast at all,
0:17.4	so you got kind of thrown in.
0:19.0	I'm not sure if you're tracking how all this happened.
0:21.5	One of your guys just was kind of interested in
0:25.2	podcast. Like what are you guys doing here? So we started talking to him about it and
0:28.7	and he's like we're trying to get him on. Yeah. And he's like I would have done great by the way I that's what I say it's like dude you like come on this is we want to talk to everybody and but he was like no I got a I got a perfect guy for you so that's why that's why you're up. Yeah that's great
0:45.9	Yeah, glad to be here. So what's your background? Yeah, so I did I joined in 2001 from Wisconsin enlisted with no real goals and got thrown into what is now the
0:58.7	RPA world so MQ1, MQ9 spent about 20 years doing that.
1:03.5	No kidding.
1:04.3	Right, and you're still doing that?
1:05.9	No, I got fortunate enough to get hired as a group chief out of McConnell working with the tankers, KC 46 and
1:15.6	KC 135.
1:16.6	Okay, awesome.
1:17.6	Well, well, that's a, how did that happen?
1:20.6	Just because you did a 9G crossflow?
1:23.7	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:24.7	Okay, cool.
1:25.8	Well, I know you don't know who I am.
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