(dramatic music) - Hey, everybody and welcome to Behind the Wing, the 315th Airlift Wing's official podcast. I'm your host, Major Wayne Capps, along with my co-host, - Tech Sergeant Bobby Pilch. - Bobby, what's going on? This is our second official podcast. We're having a blast doing this. It's been a pretty big hit so far. - Yeah, so far so good. It's been well-received by- - The masses? - Masses, yes, masses, the Wing. You know, I think Michael was telling us we've had some great downloads. - Yeah, it's been a pretty good product so far. I mean, we're excited to do it. This is our second big official podcast and we've got a good show planned. - Yeah, it's been really busy. We've got some folks that have come back from the RED HORSE Squadron, who were deployed for several months out in the desert, so they're gonna be sitting down with us and telling us about what went on over there. - And I'm gonna be talking to the 315th Air Medical Evacuation, one of my favorite missions here in the Wing. It's a reserve unique mission here at Joint Base Charleston. I think that's kinda cool. These are the medical folks that bring wounded service members back from a war zone, and they played a big part in all of this hurricane relief that we had, so very cool to sit down and talk to those people. - Yeah, our folks were everywhere. They were down in Puerto Rico, in Texas. Yeah, I can't wait to hear their stories. - You name it, they were there, so taking care of whatever needed to be taken care of, evacuating people out of an emergency situation. - Yeah, and in addition to that, our new segment with Michael Dukes will be coming up, and he's got a lot of great information to share just before the holidays. - Absolutely, so we've got a couple great stories. We have a deployment story, we have a hurricane medical evacuation story, and then we'll talk about our news right before the holidays. - Great, looking forward to it. - So, let me set this up for you. We have our 315th Air Medical Evacuation. I had a chance to sit down and talk to them about their mission and what they do, and how they participated in those really bad hurricanes the last month or so, so take a listen. Well, I'm here in the studio with Captain Julia Lesage. She's actually a flight nurse with the 315th Air Medical Evacuation Squadron. Welcome to the podcast. It's actually our second show. - Good morning, thank you for having me. - So let's talk about what you do. Tell us what the Air Medical Evacuation Squadron does. - Our mission is to take the wounded warrior from either the point of injury or where they've been stabilized, to bring them all the way home and get them the care that they need. - That's a pretty incredible mission. You know, I've actually flown with AE for a number of years, you know, just being around for awhile. I've been able to fly on some real world missions out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and let me tell you I've got a new found respect for what you guys do. I'm a huge fan. - Well, thank you. - So tell me, you're a flight nurse, so what does that mean? What do you do? - Our team consists of five people. We have two flight nurses and three aero medical evacuation technicians, which is AET for short, and together we fly and we just transport the wounded warriors from the medical facility that we pick them up from, whether it is overseas or if it's stateside, we just get them to the next echelon of care. We provide transportation to and from where they're going, as well as the care that they need en route. So if they need dressing changes or they need medication, we provide that to get them safely from point A to point B. - So you have a different career path from a normal flight nurse. I've worked with you for a long time, just seeing you around the Wing. Like me, you went a different route to get where you are right now. So let's take a minute to talk about your career path. - All right, well, I started back as a brand new airman in fuels. I was a fuel truck driver, so I gassed up all the aircraft. - So you went from a fuel truck driver to a flight nurse. - I did. I don't know exactly how that transitioned. I always wanted to be a nurse but joined the Air Force to serve my country, and that was the job that was selected for me. Learned a ton, enjoyed it so much on active duty, and went around the world with that, but still wanted to go back to my roots of being a nurse, so I went into the reserves so I could attend school full-time, got my nursing degree, and during that time, stayed enlisted in the 315th Airlift Wing and became a First Sergeant to continue to get that service for the people outside of just the aircraft. And that was an easy transition for me from the enlisted part over into the nursing part, serving people. - You know, it's not very often that you see a First Sergeant switch over and become an officer, let alone a flight nurse, which is a whole other specialty. So what kind of response have you seen from people who have watched you transition over the years? - Oh, I've had so much support from my commanders pushing me, saying this is really where you need to go, to people that I work with that say we're so happy to have you here and that you didn't choose the retirement path. - Right. - But you came over here to work with us, and it's just everyone's been very supportive and it's just been such a, a wonderful enhancement to the end of my career. - Oh, that's great. So, I want to switch gears and talk about Air Medical Evacuation. Again, it's a unique job in the Air Force. It's one of those jobs that it's primarily a garden reserve job. Actually it's 88% garden reserve, so here at Joint Base Charleston, the active duty doesn't have an Air Medical Evacuation, so when they need something they call on the reserves, so why do you think that is? - Well, our role is to enhance the operational missions that are going on, so any wounded warriors that are injured in battle, we're bringing them home. So it's not something that's necessarily needed every single day, so we do have deployments where we go on those rotations, and are in place, but it's not something that they need nurses for on an every single day mission. - So it's primarily a war time capability, if you will. - Exactly. - So, besides the war time stuff that you all do, which is, it's some pretty heavy stuff, flying with a real world Air Medical Evacuation crew. It's one of the most rewarding missions, I think, that a person can fly on. - It is, so our nurses and med techs are actually working in the civilian sector, and they are pulling that knowledge that they have and that experience that they have from either riding as a paramedic or a medical technician, or serving in the emergency room or in an ICU, and they're bringing all that to the mission that we do on the aircraft in our daily missions, and so we're getting that real world, up to date experience and bringing that to our mission. - So let's talk about missions that aren't war time related. We had an extremely busy summer with two major hurricanes hitting the east coast. At Joint Base Charleston we normally, we're at the forefront of helping everybody else out. But we evacuated just like everybody else, except for the Air Medical Evacuation. You guys went on the road immediately to help out. So what did you all do during these past two hurricanes? - Our members are ready for anything that comes our way. We train and we maintain our readiness, so that we are ready for these situations when they arise. We had members that went out in support of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma to put together teams of flight nurses that went in and evacuated people, as well as the ground team that helped get everyone where they needed to go. - Wow, that must have been pretty rewarding, especially knowing you're here in the US, helping people, helping our neighbors essentially. - Yes. Our members, when those requests go out, we might have four or five lines to fill, and basically our entire squadron volunteers. This is what we train for, this is what we sign up for, and so it's exciting to get to serve our country in this way. - That's incredible to hear. Switching, you know we were talking about stateside missions. You guys have more stateside missions. I thought that the Air Medical Evacuation was primarily an overseas war time mission, but you guys do so much more. Let's talk about some of the stateside missions that you do. - We support the stateside mission one week at a time. A group will go to each of the three bases that our stateside mission encompasses, so either Andrews, Kelly or Travis Air Force bases, and the members that are injured overseas come through Andrews Air Force Base, and then we get them to the other locations and get them closer to their home of record, their final bit of care, and to get them back into their home units. - So essentially you're bringing people home. - We are. - Yeah, what a good feeling that is. What other missions do you fly? - We do a lot of training missions, so we help other units to get them the training that they need on our aircraft if they have a different aircraft that they fly regularly on, so that they can stay up to par with the C-17 aircraft. Air Medical Evacuation technicians and flight nurses are qualified on C-130, KC-135 and C-17 aircraft, but since our primary aircraft is C-17, we like to look at other units that have those other types of aircraft to give us that training, and then vice-versa, we give it to them so we can all stay current on these different types of aircraft. - Well, speaking of which, you all are helping out our neighbors to the north just a little bit. Charlotte Air National Guard will be receiving C-17s soon, and you're getting them spun up. - Correct, they have had C-130s in the past, so they've been coming down here and flying with us, and getting familiarized and comfortable on the C-17, so when they get that mission, they are ready to rock and roll with their front end pilots and load masters. - So, you guys are kind of a showcase for us, being a reserve unique mission here at the base. When everybody comes in town, when we get the visitors that come, we like to show you off, and everybody likes to see what Air Medical Evacuation does. - We do like to show off our mission. It's such a unique mission. We set up static displays on the aircraft, and we have people from all over come and visit us, and so just recently we had the Republic of Korea Ministry of Defense come and just check out what we do, and see what we offer. - That's great. What do they think about what you do? They don't have this type of capability. - Right, everyone from the local civic leaders to the Republic of Korea Ministry of Defense, but yes, they were excited to see the uniqueness of our Air Medical Evacuation mission, and that we move the wounded warrior from one point to another. - And you know, speaking of exactly what you do, if you look at the stats overall, and I don't have any of those stats in front of me, but it's amazing how far we've come from let's say the World War II era to Vietnam, from Desert Storm until now. You'll see how long it takes an injury to occur on the battlefield to get to that definitive care in a hospital in the United States where they're side by side with their family. - Right, we can be there at a moment's notice. They can just pluck an aircraft out that is mission ready, put an AE crew on it, and get those members evacuated out and to that level of care that they need to survive. - From a historical standpoint that's almost unheard of. I remember doing a story a few years ago. We had a gentleman who was injured in Afghanistan, and he was so bad and he needed such emergency care, that a C-17 crew, they were called in, they sent a Blackhawk from the battlefield to the base. They put the gentleman on the Blackhawk. You guys took care of him and kept him safe, and flew all the way to San Antonio, Texas in one shot. So from a historical standpoint, it's never been done before. - Exactly and there's specialty teams that can fly with us, so we are trained on the aircraft. We have the Critical Care Air Transport teams. We have other specialty teams that can fly with us and provide the care in the air, specific to that patient, and then we can transport other patients along with them and maintain the interface between the aircraft and that specialty team. - Yeah, it's an amazing job, and I hear you guys actually need flight nurses. Is that true? - Always need flight nurses and Air Medical Evacuation technicians. - You know what, I've had some family members who have actually looked into that. What's it like? What's the process? Let's say you're a nurse on the outside and you say you know what, I think I want to fly. What's it like? - We're always looking for flight nurses, and to get your foot in the door you need a four-year Bachelors degree, and you'll be able to talk to the health services recruiter once you have one full year of nursing experience, and we like to typically have either emergency department or critical care experience. - Well, and also, on top of that, I know you need flight nurses. One of the things that I thought was really interesting, if you're on the outside looking into the military when you think about somebody joining the military, you think about the 18, 19 year old kid that comes in, and goes to the recruiter's office scared with their mom and dad. It's not necessarily the case. To be a flight nurse you can be up to 47 years old to join. And I've actually seen that. You all had a flight nurse who I went on a mission with, and she said she was looking through recruiting brochures and college application brochures with her son, and she came across a flight nurse brochure, and she said, "Hmm, I've always wanted to do that." And her kid ended up going off to college, and she joined the military to be a flight nurse. I thought that was the most amazing story. - It is, and she's an absolute joy to fly with, and she has so much experience and so much knowledge that she passes on to the rest of us. We just love having her. - Ah, one of the best quotes that I've ever heard, you know, she kind of smiled when we were talking to her. She said, "They told me I couldn't make it because of my age, I showed them." - Yes, she did. (both laugh) - So, last question, do you enjoy your job? - I absolutely love it, and I just want to put out there too it's not just about the flight nurses and about the flight Air Medical Evacuation technicians. We have so much ground support within our squadron. We have Medical Service Corps officers, we have medical admin, we have medical logistics, and so all of that together pulls together and makes us just one really amazing, awesome squadron. - That is incredible. So talking to Captain Julia Lesage, from the 315th Air Medical Evacuation Squadron. Thank you for coming in. - Thank you for having me. - Major Capps, that was an amazing story, and to hear what our airmen are doing around the globe, and right here in the States during a time of crisis. - Absolutely. If you didn't learn anything, you'll realize that if anything happens around the world, the 315th Airlift Wing is there, and I think that's a pretty cool thing. - Definitely, and to think that these folks, this is not their full-time job, that they actually have full-time civilian jobs and when called upon, they get out there and they go at it. - Absolutely, and it's extremely impressive, so my hat's off to the 315th Air Medical Evacuation Squadron. Thanks for everything you do, guys. And we'll switch gears for just a quick second, and talk to Michael Dukes, our news director for the program. He's actually gonna fill us in on the local news in the Wing. Michael, what's going on? - We've got several good stories going on. One of the biggest that I'm gonna mention first is we've won several communications awards at the ARFC level. - Winning. - Yes, yes. So Air Force Reserve Command just presented the 315 Public Affairs with a couple of awards, and also our brothers over at the 4th Combat Camera, so you know, we typically do pretty well every year. What awards did we clean up with this year? - Well, the most relevant to this particular podcast is we won Best Innovative Product for the podcast. - Oh, that's great. - That's awesome. - So yeah, so the Air Force is not really big on podcasts right now. We are the only wing in the entire Air Force that has our own podcast, so we're trying to dip into a market that the Air Force really hasn't touched, and try to get our message out to people who are out there, and the Air Force looked at us and said, huh, maybe we should play along in that, and they actually gave us an award for this first podcast. - Yeah, yeah, and also in that same category, our own First Lietuant Rashard Coaxum, just got back from his deployment. Well, he was recognized for his efforts, which you can probably speak to why it's unique. - Yeah, he won Best Public Affairs Company Grade Officer of the Year for Air Force Reserve Command. Huge, huge honor to be selected for that, but he was a lieutenant over in the desert running his own public affairs shop. He was the only lieutenant in public affairs across the Air Force, who was deployed last year. We normally don't deploy lieutenants, so we normally wait 'til you're a captain before you deploy. So he's got that prior enlisted experience, and he came in ready to go and they let him go overseas and run his own PA shop, and he did one heck of a job, and he got recognized for that, so congratulations, Rashard. - Yeah, definitely well earned. - Yeah, I know we're looking forward to the lessons learned that he brings back to the office. The third award that we won was for our 4th Combat Camera. This kind of relates to our first story with the hurricanes this summer, and so Combat Camera won a crisis communications award for AFRC. - Congratulations, and we want to have the 4th Combat Camera on our show. Most of those folks are commuters, so it's hard to do just on a reserve weekend, on a drill weekend, so we're gonna get them in, probably next podcast and talk about their new unique mission here in Charleston, so congratulations to the 4th Combat Camera. - Yeah, and that should be a great interview as well. - Yes. - So what else is going on, Michael? - Let's see, RED HORSE came back with about 120 folks from their deployment in the desert. A lot of them were there for over six months, and we also had a big group come back from our aerial port and a few other ... - Deployment stragglers coming in? - Yeah, just in time for the holidays. - Absolutely, welcome home everybody, welcome home to all the 315 members who have been deployed. It's such a, you know, I got home right before the holidays on my deployment, and wow, what a good little relief that is, to kinda get that off of you. - Yeah, everyone's gonna get some nice, hopefully, home-cooked meals, some turkey and some fixins, as we like to say here in Charleston. - So welcome home, everybody. - For our final thing, we are coming up on the holidays. Thanksgiving is upon us already, so a lot of people will be driving out of the area. We just ask that you be safe, and as far as traveling, the weather around here is not a concern, but for those that might be going through mountains or heading up north, just be safe. It's a little slicker if it's icy or wet or cold. - 'Cause you know people down here can't drive at all. We just can't drive, especially if it rains. It's gridlock. - Yeah, if it rains too hard, we shut the roads down. - Yeah. - That's just the way we do it here. So is that all the news you have? - That's all the news we have this time. - Thank you, Michael. Thanks for the news update. So let's talk about what we've got coming next. Bobby, it's on you. - Yes, sir, so I had the opportunity to sit down with two of our returning deployed members from the RED HORSE Squadron, Captain William Haye, and Sergeant Myles Keller, and they've got some great stories to tell, and learned a lot about what their mission was and some of the great accomplishments they had while they were deployed, so that'll be coming up next. - All right, I'd like to go ahead and welcome two of our deployed airmen, who have just returned back from the desert with the RED HORSE Squadron. I have with me Captain William Haye and Sergeant Myles Keller. Gentlemen, welcome to Behind the Wing. - Good morning. - Morning. - So first I just wanted to ask you, you've been back for what, about a week or so? - Been back for about two weeks now. - About two weeks, great, and if you could, tell me a little bit about your overall deployment, some of the maybe milestones or accomplishments that you all had over there. - A lot of building. I'm a vehicle maintainer, so I do more of the fixing of the equipment that's used to build things, but yeah, we put up a lot of structures, laid down a lot of concrete. - Wow, wow, and if you could, for folks that aren't familiar with the RED HORSE Squadron, it's actually an acronym, correct? - That's right. - Okay, and would you mind explaining to the folks listening what does RED HORSE mean? - Well, the acronym is Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron Engineers. So we have engineer in there twice. - Okay. (laughs) 'Cause I know most people, they drive around the base, they see the giant red horse and they're like, okay, that must mean what it is, so that's great, and in fact, I myself didn't know 'til some years ago. Someone explained to me it was an acronym. So could you go into some detail into actually what the RED HORSE does, what its overall mission is? - The big thing about RED HORSE is that we're a self-sustainable engineering unit, so I mean really, you can put our unit anywhere and we have all the troops capable, handling all the service requirements, personnel requirements, as well as construction vehicle maintaining, executing contracts, getting money, everything. So that's really the big difference between us and like, and a regular main base CE. So as far as what we build, it's a lot more heavy construction. You know, I think that me and Sergeant Keller had two pretty different, our sites had different type of construction projects, where I was in northern Iraq and predominantly worked on horizontal constructions, so airfield projects, taxiways, runways, which is one big piece to RED HORSE, but then the other big piece is pre-engineered buildings, case fans, tents and stuff like that, which is what you were working on up there at Aldabra. - Okay. Now what's kinda unique, Captain, is that you kinda do this in your civilian world as well, correct? So this, your job as a reservist in RED HORSE kinda mirrors that. Could you explain a little bit about what you do on the outside? - Yeah, there's some similarities. So, predominantly what I do on the outside is more of the site development piece, design work and then actually overseeing construction and making sure they're building it the way that it was designed, which RED HORSE has that element as well. Predominantly what I was doing on this deployment was actually managing the construction piece where we were in charge of the crews, allocating personnel, getting equipment, getting supplies, and actually physically building the project. But yeah, there's a lot of similarities between what I do every day outside of the military and then also coming in. A lot of my private sector experience really helped out a lot on this deployment as well. - That's great. Now, Sergeant, you're a little different. You're actually a full-time student, correct? - Conversely. My career field or what I expect to be in, has nothing to do with my job in the military. - Okay, interesting. - I'm a computer science and software engineering major, and I'm a vehicle maintainer for the Air Force. - Okay, wow. Well, I guess it's kinda good, 'cause it balances out. You do something totally different on the reserve side. - Right, so if there's an EMP bomb that goes off and takes out all the technology, I still have a job. - Okay. - Assuming we go back to carbureted motors. - Okay, great, so were there any major big, big projects that you consider kinda milestones, or you kinda put your mark on your deployment? - I'd say for us in Iraq, we had three major projects that we were working on. Completed two of them ahead of schedule, which was great. Our guys really worked their tail off. The first project that we completed was a concrete taxiway, and we were actually at an airport, which had a runway long enough to be C-5 capable, so we were basically taking a 40-year-old taxiway, removing it, and putting in a new taxiway to make it fully C-5 capable, and it's the only C-5 capable runway for Iraq and Syria, so a lot of the stuff would come in via C-5, which obviously is a huge force multiplier to be able to have a reliable aerial port for C-5s to come in on. They'd offload the cargo and send that to wherever they needed to. The other project that we worked on was a asphalt runway. It was a little bit further away from the airport where I was at at an undisclosed location. That was predominantly a Special Forces base. - Okay. - So we took a runway they had beat to hell in the initial invasion back in 2003, and we completely resurfaced the entire runway and then for about 1,000-foot span of it, we did a full replacement of it, so down three feet replacing all the dirt and all the way back up, so it's got a brand new asphalt surface on it, and is now capable of allowing several thousand passes for a C-17. - Wow, that's impressive. - Yeah, our guys really, really worked hard to get those projects done. The runway project was pretty unique in the sense that we didn't have ... It was really out in the middle of nowhere, and we sent all of our equipment and guys up there to go do this project. It's just a really unique job. - Captain, this is all done, I mean, was this all done in your six-month deployment, or was it done with, I guess, other groups deploying? - The previous rotation that we replaced got the contracts awarded for material. Yeah, those two projects we completely started and closed out on our six-month rotation. - Okay, wow, that's impressive. And Sergeant, could you kind of expand about, a little more what your role was, what you did, and maybe some unique experiences, challenges that you had while you were over there? - Yeah, that was a, I guess it's a little more difficult for me to go into the intricacies of the building side of things. Since I'm so removed from that I just, we have our own shop that really just people just bring stuff in and, "I broke this," or, "This broke in a way that we don't know how," you know, that kinda thing. Yeah, most of my stuff was just fixing vehicles that have been down for a long time. That seems to be a big problem is getting parts out on the other side of the world. - Oh, yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, everything needs to be flown in and yeah, hope to God you have the part. - Yeah, there's a lot of improvisation, a lot of- - Yeah. - A lot of it unfortunately comes down to waiting on things. You can't rig an air bag. - Right. - You have to wait. That's a very big safety thing. - Yeah. - But yeah, I was really just keeping up the fleet and making sure all the heavy equipment, especially, 'cause we're so heavy equipment oriented. - Right. - Making sure the bulldozers, the dump trucks, all that stuff stay up and running. - Yeah, 'cause you guys rely on one another. Yeah, if your dump truck goes down or your bulldozer, that runway's not gonna proceed forward. - And those things take a beating. Oh, man. - I can imagine. Especially in that environment, the harsh environment that you guys were in. Yeah, I can imagine the heat and just, yeah, all that stuff, what it does to the- - The rust, strangely enough. - Really? - Yeah, I don't know what it is about the air out there. I mean, a lot of them I guess are fairly coastal, but it seems like everything out there. I guess it's probably the wind sweeping from the fan and stuff, just causes everything to corrode. - Really? - It's a big, big problem. - Okay, wow, yeah, I wouldn't have guessed that. I'd think more like an Arizona environment, you know. - Exactly. - Like Davis Monthan, where the boneyard is, you know? But totally unlike that, okay. - It's very humid, actually. It's very, very humid, actually almost near Charleston. - Wow, okay. Well, yeah, we've got our fair share of humidity here. Well, it's kinda great too that you're here, because the holidays are about to kick off, so you excited to be home to the family? 'Cause I think what, you're gonna be finishing up your processing and then heading home for Thanksgiving? - Yeah, we, I guess you'd say made it back just in time. 'Cause there was a time where we weren't sure if we were gonna make it back for Thanksgiving. - Really. - Yeah, 'cause they have all these different staggered rotations out, depending on who goes where, and we weren't really sure until right before we left when we were gonna come back, so it's nice to be back for the holidays. - Well, that's great, and Captain, you've got a family as well, you're coming back to? - Yes, sir. I've got one child. I've got a three-year-old girl and married, so it kinda stunk to miss summer, you know, 'cause I enjoy doing summer in Charleston, but it's really great, it's gonna be great to be home and enjoy the holidays with the family. It's definitely a lot different now having a three-year-old, you know. The older they get the more they actually enjoy it, and getting them presents and stuff like that, and spending time with them. - That's great. Were you able to communicate with your family a lot while you were over there, utilizing social media and things like that? - Every day. - Yeah? - Every day, yeah, absolutely. It was a lot different than on my last deployment. The majority of us out there in Iraq have little WiFi, but on that base and when I was traveling to my other job, I had internet the entire time. - That's great. - I could text, Face Time, whatever. - The infrastructure was really established where I was, so I didn't have a lot of stuff to worry about. They had actually a really fast Internet connection. I think I talked to my girlfriend more when I was deployed than I usually do. - Now you spoiled her. (laughing) - Yeah. - Prior to us doing the interview, you guys, we were kinda talking about the Yellow Ribbon experience. Was there anything you'd like to share about Yellow Ribbon program that was good for you and your families prior to being deployed? - Right, I think it's a really rewarding experience. It's obviously nice to be able to go to a location that you don't typically reside at, and have a paid for vacation. Granted, you do have to go to training and stuff like that, but I think that it's very relevant to the pre-deployment experience. I haven't been to a post-deployment Yellow Ribbon event yet, but the classes that they offer are very relevant to adjusting and having your family able to prepare for the deployment and how to support you when you're gone, and also they make sure that you're a good airman, you stay in contact with your family and stuff like that. I think it's definitely a good program and it helps a lot with having your families and yourself ready for the deployment. - Yeah, spin them up on all the things that they're entitled to and yeah. - Right. - That's great. Well, gentlemen, thank you so much. I'm so glad you took time out of your busy day prior to heading out for the holidays to talk with us, and wish you the best of luck and safe travels home. - I appreciate it, dude. - Wow, what a great interview, and a heck of a mission they've got. - Yeah, they had a quite a few accomplishments over there, and the most interesting was the fact that they, you know, the whole repaving of the runway and the work they did over there is simply amazing. - Yeah, and working in the desert like that, when you're going from location to location to location, and in not-so-friendly places, you know, not the best neighborhoods in the world. - Yeah, exactly, and you know, it's hot, it's lonely over there. Yeah, hats off to those folks who did the mission, and now they're home for the holidays. - Welcome home, RED HORSE. We're glad to have you back in Charleston. Enjoy your family time, and we'll see you back here at the base soon. (dramatic music) Well, that just about does it for Behind the Wing. This is our November podcast, and we're excited that this is the second product that we've actually put out. We're gonna keep this thing going, and if you have some good stories send them to us. You can go on our Facebook page at the 315th Airlift Wing. You can find us, talk to us, tell us what you want to hear. Tell us what you like, tell us what you don't like. If you don't like to hear from Bobby, just let me know. - Thank you, sir, appreciate that. Also, please, download our app. Michael Dukes is actively keeping that thing fresh, so you can also communicate to us with the 315th official app. - It's in your app store. Just type in 315th Airlift Wing. All the latest news, information, schedules. You name it, it's on our Smartphone app, so you can get it there. So, again, on behalf of everybody here in the 315th Airlift Wing, we want to thank you for watching Behind the Wing. I'm Major Wayne Capps. - And Tech Sergeant Bobby Pilch. - And thank you so much, and we'll see you next month on Behind the Wing. - You said watching. Watching Behind the Wing. We're listening, we're listening. - And pickup line, listening to Behind the Wing. We can replace that. - There we go, yeah. (dramatic music)