Hey everybody welcome back to the ones ready

podcast you just have me today and Aaron Trent aren't available right now and I was feeling bored so I figured I come on here and make a little content little video for you guys and we can go from there. I don't really have a no-kidn agenda but I was before hopping on I did make some notes so bear with me this is me

100% stepping outside of my comfort zone I don't have Aaron and Trent to lean on or a guest to lean on and use.

Yeah, because that's what I do. I use them just to hide my own insecurities.

So anyway, we'll go on and kind of give you a background.

If you're not familiar or you're new to the podcast,

tell you a little bit about myself.

So I'm a combat controller, I'm an active duty combat controller still.

I've been serving for the better part of 25 years now. I came in when I was 17 and I went through the old pipeline.

So the pipeline that you're familiar with now

or that if you're new that you'll be intimately familiar with

is a new or a fairly new construct since 2019.

Me coming in in 99 we had in dock and that's when

Par rescue men and combat controllers went through in dock together

uh... which subsequently ended a couple of years after I left, but that doesn't matter. So that's kind of my background, And then I've had numerous assignments

from Florida to North Carolina

to the United Kingdom to Las Vegas, Nevada,

Washington State, near Tacoma, and then, then so yeah I've been all around been doing

this for quite some time I'm one of the old folks that are out here now but one of the

things that I did to prep,

because that's one of the questions that we get a lot

or how are we preparing for the pipeline

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