During the 17 years you guys were in, was there ever a moment where you guys were so deep that you had Intel where we were this close to possibility of a world worth something really nasty?

Was it ever a point where it was so close that if this thing happens and this triggers this, we could be in a World War III overnight.

Was there ever a moment like that in your 17 years?

There were a couple scenarios under the Trump administration.

Right before I retired, we were spinning up to do a couple things

that if they would have went potentially potentially and I'll be honest uh Trump can't us when we were on the

ramp getting ready to go he solved it however he does whatever he does he called and literally

stopped us on a ramp you vividly remember that I mean we

spun up to go we were gonna go do the thing and got in midair and got ready to do the

the whole process and we got canceled and spun around and came back home okay so

this has got to be 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

This is that time.

Yeah.

And if this were to happen, I mean, potentially, I mean, could have been an active engagement

with a bunch of Russians.

Could have been dicey.

You just never know.

So you're on the ramp.

You're ready to go.

Everybody's, you know, strapped.

You boom. Get the phone call.

Nope, it's squared over.

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