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Hey, what's going on? Welcome back to another episode of software, radio. This is rad, your host today. And I have a very special guest, a United States Air Force veteran, Bob Taylor, flew about 10 to 12 missions, combat missions, and desert storm moved on, I believe as a major, maybe Lieutenant Colonel into the civilian life to find himself and figure out, you know, some self reflections. I'm going to

put it out there. And Bob, welcome to software up into our listeners and viewers out there. Welcome. Yeah, thank you very much. It's a great honor to be on your show. So thank you for having me. Well, when you guys said, hey, rad, we want to be on the show. I was so excited to have you on the show. So it makes it a mutual feeling to have this extra good positivity and karma out there where you want to be here. We want you here. And we want to talk about, you know, just get right into the Air Force aspect of it. Right. So 1989, what are you doing?

Yeah. So I was active duty and I was a E 52 navigator at the time. And we deployed in 1990, 1991 for operation Desert Storm into a place called Diego Garcia, where we flew 11 combat missions out of there about 20 hour missions on average.

round trip from halfway across the globe over Iraq and then back in the same time.

No kidding. Now, for those of us that may not understand a navigator or pilot's life on a plane,

you can't pull over like a motorhome and like, right? So, you know, everything's happening while

you're strapped to this flying machine through the air. So how do you take a whiz? How do you go

to the bathroom? What are you doing as lights? Tell my wife that's one thing that if I could ever

meet the engineers of the B-52, they had the year and all tucked in a corner inside the crew

compartment and the heating duct went right by it. So, over the course of the mission, I just

made things kind of miserable. But yeah, our crew stations were all on ejection seats. So, they

were not designed for long-term comfort. You know, we had a parachute that we were strapped into

and the pace of the mission and the emotions and how you physically felt changed throughout. So,

on your way there, just on the way that target, you're just mentally geared towards the mission.

And we trained hundreds and hundreds of missions so that we could do this flawlessly.

So, you're just mentally geared, prepared, doing everything that you're supposed to do, handling any of

the, at one point on our first combat mission, we lost one of our engines in the pilot city of

phenomenal Java, handling that. And we lost one of our computer systems for our navigation system.

So, we had to shut everything down and start midair with rebooting everything. And it's not like

a computer where you just shut it down in a couple minutes. It comes back up. It takes two and a

hours to recycle it. Wow. So, that, and then when we got closer to the target, you started picking up

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