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Right this moment we hear our first Fight Story from a member of the Air Power’s aerial particular operations group: Mike LaFeve. Mike was an MC-130 Navigator within the Air Power’s eighth Particular Operations Squadron (eighth SOS).
The MC-130 is an unimaginable airframe and we dig into it’s configuration, aircrews, and mission units on this episode. The platform is particularly designed to assist the particular operations group with airdrops, supply and extraction of particular operators, refueling, fight search and rescue and a lot extra, together with one thing known as the Fulton Restoration which is straight out of a James Bond film.
On this episode we undergo Mike’s first deployment instantly following 9/11 in what can solely be described because the Wild West of Afghanistan. We’ll do a second spherical interview during which we delve into a number of extra deployments and the various mission set because the battlefield turns into extra established.
I hope you take pleasure in this detailed behind the scenes have a look at a really cool airframe from somebody contained in the cockpit as a lot as I did.
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Present Notes:
00:00 – Intro
01:00 – Visitor Introduction (Mike LaFeve)
02:00 – Interview begins
02:23 – Influential Media
04:29 – Want to fly
05:57 – Childhood
08:15 – Household Navy historical past
09:08 – Deciding on the Air Power
14:59 – Air Upkeep Officer
20:18 – OSS Society
21:24 – Distinction between Navigator and Pilot
29:20 – Heavy as a substitute of Fighter
32:35 – Path to MC-130 and Special Forces
36:28 – In depth have a look at the C-130s
40:35 – 4 Patriots
41:58 – Aircrew and Mission units
46:57 – Flying at 250 ft at night time
51:00 – Retired plane-escape system
53:46 – Particular Ops throughout 9/11
01:05:42 – Time in Pakistan
01:19:57 – First operation of the Conflict
01:28:26 – Time within the Conflict
01:32:20 – Texas 12
01:42:23 – ODA teamleader
01:46:47 – Final mission on first deployment
01:50:58 – Sentimental merchandise
01:52:33 – Would you do all of it once more
01:56:35 – Remaining ideas
01:57:54 – Listener feedback and shout outs
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