The First Female AH-6 Pilot for the 160th SOAR | Lindsey Chrismon | Ep. 340

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Lindsey served as an AH-64 Apache Pilot and as an AH-6 Littlebird Pilot for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. She's a graduate of West Point, where she served as First Captain, and she's currently finishing her MBA at Harvard Business School. She is also is the co-founder and CEO of Oply, an AI powered home improvement application.
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0:00.0	You have to climb a caving ladder.
0:02.0	So you get dropped into the ocean, essentially,
0:06.0	and then your stick buddy basically flies out with an IP,
0:09.0	and they hover above you, and you're bobbling in the water,
0:12.0	and this other students trying to hover the helicopter over you,
0:15.0	and obviously is sucking at doing so.
0:17.0	And they drop a caving ladder, which is a ladder that's as thin as, I mean, it's the tiniest little thing.
0:23.0	So you're like putting your heels in this caving ladder and pulling yourself up out of the water with all of your gear.
0:30.6	I remember once again just thinking to myself, I'm like completely at physical max capacity.
0:38.2	Like I thought, you have to get to the top of the ladder, obviously,
0:42.2	climb and pull yourself into the aircraft and then hook yourself in so they could fly away.
0:46.7	And I just remember thinking of myself, I'm going to fucking fall off this ladder and fall 30 feet into the ocean.
0:53.1	And I'm going to fail a green platoon
0:54.4	because I can't climb this damn caving ladder.
0:56.8	It was so fucking physically challenging for me.
1:00.4	I don't know what it was.
1:01.5	It was just all my muscles.
1:03.0	Every ounce of my body was like,
1:06.0	poof, this might be it.
1:07.4	And it was a really, really challenging thing to do,
1:09.9	but did it um hey guys it's your pal jack
1:20.1	i just want to take a moment to tell you about the sponsor for this show which is stopbox
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