Everybody, welcome back to the One Dready podcast. We appreciate you joining us. We have two very special guests today. We have the command team for the special warfare training wing. Colonel Mason dual and command chief top public.

Colonel dual is a special tactics officer and the commander of the wing, which, as you know, is in charge of 16 Air Force schools that are.

Are rooted in our pipeline. And then they also manage the Air Force participation for seven other joint schools. So think of your, you know, your military free fall, your airborne, that kind of stuff.

Colonel dual has been around for quite a long time. We go way back.

Almost to when I first came to the Air Force. Great guy, been involved at every single level that you can think of in terms of the team, the flight, Dio squadron commander group commander and now wing commander.

And all around great guy. And then we have command chief top pop of it, who is a pair of escumen by trade. And is also the senior enlisted leader for the special warfare training wing, which, as you know, assesses selects trained special warfare candidates through the pipeline.

And they have an entire team of human performance specialist and combat mission support or special warfare missions board. And we want to thank the command team of special warfare training wing, because we know that they're extremely busy, which is why we've kind of broken up the intro to the actual discussion, because we wanted to maximize our time with them.

And get through as many questions and discussion points is possibly good. So now, thanks for turning in and on to the rest of the stuff instead of me talking.

Colonel dual chief pop, we really appreciate you joining us today. And I obviously gave you a very glowing introduction, but we wanted to jump right into these. So one of the questions that we get a lot is, and I mean, we can answer it, but hearing it from you guys is all that much better.

But why is the pipeline so long?

So you got to get specific quick when you ask that particular question, which pipeline are you referring to, but in general, some of the issues that play all the pipelines are the employment courses.

And any time we have to reach outside of Air Force controlled schools with Air Force controlled seed allocations, things get a little bit dicey for it.

So that right now, the primary of, in fact, is military free fall and some of the work we're doing with use of suck to increase some of those core seeds, but it is pretty bad.

And it is creating significant backlogs that create significant amount of frustration for the candidates that are going through the pipeline and pushes pipelines that are pretty long already to not free.

Not fun stages. So much of this is out of our control then or out of your control.

Well, I think it's our job to fix it. Chief, I think that's one of the reasons why they stood up a training week.

So I wouldn't let us off the hook quite that easy.

But we certainly acknowledge that it's really frustrating. I think it's compounded by kind of universal training experience.

So when you're here around the flagpole, when you're here at JBSA, when you're here on Chapman training annex, that becomes associated with early phases of the pipeline, pretty, pretty difficult, arduous courses.

And people are generally happy to get the heck out of here and move on to other training venues.

When we do things like shift the paramedic course at a Kirkland and bring it here to Chapman, one, the courses flat out better in every aspect.

And very soon we'll be roped into so common accreditation for electrical practitioner.

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