Truck driver Here...just finished 10 day trip to South Ogden,Utah. Listen to hours of Afterburner the whole way there and back. Helped me pass ALOT of time. Didn't realize I was 5 miles from Hill AFB until a train of F35's flew over me low level. Best part of my whole trip. Thanks for everything you and your guest have done and will do. Keep em coming brother.
Soup is the real deal! Great interview; he has much more to offer than was shared here. One of the absolute best that I worked with in my 38 year Air Force career! Trapper
A-10 Crew Chief, 75th FS from 1998 to 2002 (tail number 157) here. Col. Campbell (Captain at the time) was one of our pilots. I had great conversations with the pilots waiting for them to taxi before flight. It was an honor and privilege maintaining the jets and serving with everyone in the Tigershark community.
Cannot say enough, how much the A-10s have saved lives. Seriously cannot understand why the military wants to retire the A-10. Like a lot of A-10 pilots say - “We’ll be back”.
GWOT wasted airframe hours of countless platform including the A10 and B1 ect ect.... Prime contractor consolidation combined with ever increasing cost plus contracts has only made acquisition worse and creates incentives for new projects. Fairchild Republic was gone long before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. Soup touched on how parts were being cannibalized for multiple platforms which is simply unsustainable. The A10 may be food for blowing holes in the sand but it's been saved for years and now the entire military can't effectively procure much of anything besides larger funding requests. Boeing can't get the T-7 sorted, no one is flying, let's not even start with the Navy's unacceptable program management i.e. LCS, Constellation, sub production, SIOP drydock cost overruns and delays accross the board.. Prime contractors with zero accountability are actively threatening national security.
This episode is solid gold. Col. Campbell's story from the air during Anaconda fills in so many gaps for me. I highly recommend the book Not A Good Day To Die - The Untold Story Of Operation Anaconda, by Sean Naylor. It is HIGHLY detailed and really paints a comprehensive picture, and Col. Campbell's recount of events makes perfect sense and fills out the air mission to create such a greater understanding. I can't tell you how valuable this episode is to fully understand what our military was like in the six months post 9/11 and how far we've come. Thank you so much!
@Golfrnut - thanks for the point out on the misspeak; yes, Junior & Panzer were overhead, Grace was the weapons officer that briefed us up that morning. When Junior got back, he went right to our squadron commander and told him he had to get us into the fight.
@@HawgDriver95 you are welcome. And again, no ill-intentions meant by my original post. Always cool to hear other perspectives and piece stories together from those who were there at the time. I know what I know from the crews that I was around, but not much more. That '02 Jaber trip will always be my favorite deployment. Just saying hello and thanks for sharing your story and some of your 30 mil with us. Ha!
What do you think 420 miles per hour is enough to pass all the fires i know the A10 have the 30mm but that doesn't mean it won't down Do you know what's the special about A10 Hog? It is the design that can give it the ability to take a shot and still fighting and the LARS Radio.
Awesome interview and storyteller. You have to put him into contact with Baltic Dragon and have him immortalize some of those awesome missions into a new Hog campaign, special now with the Afghan map coming.
Truck driver Here...just finished 10 day trip to South Ogden,Utah. Listen to hours of Afterburner the whole way there and back. Helped me pass ALOT of time. Didn't realize I was 5 miles from Hill AFB until a train of F35's flew over me low level. Best part of my whole trip. Thanks for everything you and your guest have done and will do. Keep em coming brother.
Glad to hear it and happy to hear you enjoyed it. 🤘🏻🇺🇸
Soup is the real deal! Great interview; he has much more to offer than was shared here. One of the absolute best that I worked with in my 38 year Air Force career! Trapper
A-10 Crew Chief, 75th FS from 1998 to 2002 (tail number 157) here. Col. Campbell (Captain at the time) was one of our pilots. I had great conversations with the pilots waiting for them to taxi before flight. It was an honor and privilege maintaining the jets and serving with everyone in the Tigershark community.
Cannot say enough, how much the A-10s have saved lives. Seriously cannot understand why the military wants to retire the A-10. Like a lot of A-10 pilots say - “We’ll be back”.
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GWOT wasted airframe hours of countless platform including the A10 and B1 ect ect.... Prime contractor consolidation combined with ever increasing cost plus contracts has only made acquisition worse and creates incentives for new projects. Fairchild Republic was gone long before the U.S. invaded Afghanistan. Soup touched on how parts were being cannibalized for multiple platforms which is simply unsustainable. The A10 may be food for blowing holes in the sand but it's been saved for years and now the entire military can't effectively procure much of anything besides larger funding requests. Boeing can't get the T-7 sorted, no one is flying, let's not even start with the Navy's unacceptable program management i.e. LCS, Constellation, sub production, SIOP drydock cost overruns and delays accross the board.. Prime contractors with zero accountability are actively threatening national security.
All i can say is holy crap! He certainly earned his DFC's
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This episode is solid gold. Col. Campbell's story from the air during Anaconda fills in so many gaps for me. I highly recommend the book Not A Good Day To Die - The Untold Story Of Operation Anaconda, by Sean Naylor. It is HIGHLY detailed and really paints a comprehensive picture, and Col. Campbell's recount of events makes perfect sense and fills out the air mission to create such a greater understanding. I can't tell you how valuable this episode is to fully understand what our military was like in the six months post 9/11 and how far we've come. Thank you so much!
Amazing interview. It’s incredible we didn’t have aircraft collisions on these early night ops much less more friendly fire.
As always, very good show. I wish I had some sort of military aviator guide to all the jargon.
Thank you for a very entertaining interview.
Awesome!
Always love your content.
Thanks!
No hate intended, but Grace wasn't on the Robert's Ridge sortie that night, it was Maj Short, who was a prior A-10 dude.
@Golfrnut - thanks for the point out on the misspeak; yes, Junior & Panzer were overhead, Grace was the weapons officer that briefed us up that morning. When Junior got back, he went right to our squadron commander and told him he had to get us into the fight.
@@HawgDriver95 you are welcome. And again, no ill-intentions meant by my original post. Always cool to hear other perspectives and piece stories together from those who were there at the time. I know what I know from the crews that I was around, but not much more. That '02 Jaber trip will always be my favorite deployment. Just saying hello and thanks for sharing your story and some of your 30 mil with us. Ha!
What do you think 420 miles per hour is enough to pass all the fires i know the A10 have the 30mm but that doesn't mean it won't down
Do you know what's the special about A10 Hog?
It is the design that can give it the ability to take a shot and still fighting and the LARS Radio.
God hearing how much of a charlie foxtrot this was, it's amazing we ever win any wars. How do we get anything done?
Great interview and story. Could you close caption the meaning of some acronyms and jargon. I missed some of the story.
Wow, 11h mission on that tiny space called cockpit... I was wondering, how do you eat, do your phyological necessities ? lol
Is Soup "KC" Cambell's husband?
Affirm
I am.
Awesome interview and storyteller. You have to put him into contact with Baltic Dragon and have him immortalize some of those awesome missions into a new Hog campaign, special now with the Afghan map coming.
Have a gues on, then repeat everything he says.......yea....
So why you were there ?