Flying Special Operations MH-53 in Combat | CV-22 Osprey, Apache, and Cobra Aviator | Sean Borland

Combat Story

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Today we have a unique Combat Story from a long time aviator Sean Borland. Sean flew Cobras, Apaches, MH-53 Pave Lows, and CV-22 Ospreys providing direct support to war fighters pre and post-9/11.

Notably, Sean was in the first set of aircraft to go into Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 as part of Air Force Special Operations flying the MH-53 in both combat search and rescue and multi-purpose infil and exfil operations for special ops units of varying flavors from white SOF to OGA.
This is a deep dive into some of the technical aspects of aviation, particularly rotary wing, and some of the differences between the Air Force Special Operations aviation elements and 160th.

I hope you enjoy this wide ranging discussion and insight into the rotary wing side of operations as much as I did.

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Show Notes:
00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Guest Introduction (Sean Borland)
01:37 - Interview begins
02:05 - Background in Aviation
07:07 - Media and influences
10:47 - Deciding to go Marines
17:10 - Flying guns
20:30 - HelloFresh
21:45 - Differences between Cobra and Apache
24:27 - Apache mentality in the 90's
30:32 - Going to FLERE??
32:38 - Path to the Air Force
40:33 - Mision set of MH53
47:35 - Crew Configuration of MH53
50:42 - 9/11 and deployment
01:05:00 - First time outside the wire
01:28:18 - Fighter weapons school
01:32:48 - Challenging Operations
01:52:24 - Change to Osprey
01:58:44 - Close call Operation
02:07:13 - Sentimental items
02:08:44 - Would you do it again
02:09:28 - Vietnam History Flight
02:11:59 - Closing thoughts
02:12:39 - Listener comments and shout outs

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0:00.0	I'm looking at the right window and there's a V shaped like pinnacle because I'm like
0:07.0	my goggles shouldn't be scintillating like that.
0:09.0	I mean, there's plenty of starlight out and I kind of look up on it and it's like a
0:12.8	beehive is coming at us and they are, you know, these people are not happy.
0:17.5	I volume small arms fire, brain spray kind of stuff and then some pretty, pretty well
0:22.0	directed 12-7 and all I can say was, you know, ground fire 1 o'clock break left and he
0:28.3	laid it up.
0:29.3	Welcome to Combat Story.
0:30.3	I'm Ryan Fugid and I serve Warzone tours as an Army attack helicopter pilot and CIA officer
0:35.4	over a 15-year career.
0:37.2	I'm fascinated by the experiences of the elite in combat.
0:40.6	On this show, I interview some of the best to understand what combat felt like on their
0:44.8	front lines.
0:46.1	This is Combat Story.
0:47.8	Today we have a unique combat story from a longtime aviator Sean Borland.
0:52.0	Sean flew Cobra's, Apache's, MH53's and Ospreys providing direct support to warfighters
0:57.6	pre-ampost 9-11.
0:59.3	Notably, Sean was in the first set of aircraft to go to Afghanistan immediately after 9-11
1:04.4	as part of Air Force special operations, flying the MH53 in both combat search and rescue
1:09.5	and multipurpose infill X-Fill ops for special ops units of varying flavors from White
1:14.4	Soft to OGA.
1:15.9	This is a deep dive into some of the technical aspects of aviation, particularly on the
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