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The ATO Show
From the Archives: ATO Astronauts, Adventurers, and More

The ATO Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 23:46


In this episode of The ATO Show we explore the fascinating history of ATO brothers who have made significant contributions as explorers. We hear stories from the archives about alumni who have achieved greatness on land, in the air, and in space. The episode highlights Dr. Lewis Sims Jr., who flew an ATO flag over Antarctica during a 1940 expedition, inspired by early aviation pioneer and fellow ATO member Ben Eielson. Eielson's achievements in polar aviation are discussed, including his record-setting transpolar flights. The conversation then turns to five ATO brothers who became NASA astronauts. Notable figures like Charles Duke, the 10th man to walk on the moon, and David Wolf, who spent significant time on the International Space Station, are celebrated for their contributions to space exploration.

THE LONG BLUE LEADERSHIP PODCAST
The Honorable Dr. Ravi I. Chaudhary '93 - Leading Through Great Power Competition

THE LONG BLUE LEADERSHIP PODCAST

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 49:17


Dr. Ravi Chaudhary, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy Installations and Environment, is a leader who has taught his team to, "Eat no for breakfast." He lives by a value he learned from his mother at an early age: "If you do your full duty, the rest will take care of itself."   SUMMARY In this edition of Long Blue Leadership, Dr. Chaudhary discusses his role in modernizing and reoptimizing Air Force installations to withstand kinetic, cyber, economic, and extreme weather threats. He emphasizes the importance of ruggedizing installations for the Great Power Competition. Dr. Chaudhary shares his background, including his upbringing in Minneapolis and his parents' immigrant journey, and highlights the values instilled in him. He also discusses his work on the implementation of microgrids and microreactors to enhance energy resilience at critical installations like Eielson Air Force Base.   5 QUOTES "If you do your full duty, the rest will take care of itself." - This quote from Dr. Chaudhary's mother reflects the importance of dedication and doing one's job well. "We eat no for breakfast." - This quote highlights Dr. Chaudhary's team's determination to not accept limitations and push boundaries. "Love what you do. Love our nation." - Dr. Chaudhary emphasizes the importance of passion and patriotism in leadership. "America is not about what goes on entirely in Washington. It's about neighbors. It's about what you do for your neighbors." - This quote reflects Dr. Chaudhary's belief in the power of community and service. "Get out of the way and let them in." - Dr. Chaudhary's advice on enabling the next generation of leaders to excel.   SHARE THIS EPISODE LINKEDIN  |  TWITTER  |  FACEBOOK   CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction to Dr. Ravi Chaudhary and His Role 03:07 The Importance of Air Force Installations 06:08 Dr. Chaudhary's Early Life and Family Background 09:03 Lessons from Family: Service and Community 11:52 Reflections on the Air Force Academy Experience 14:54 Leadership Lessons from Cadet Days 18:01 The Role of Innovation in the Air Force 20:48 Strategic Imperatives for Future Operations 23:59 Optimism for the Future of the Air Force Academy 25:07 A Lifelong Dream: Becoming a Pilot 27:31 Launching Innovations: The GPS Program 28:36 Inspiring the Next Generation of Pilots 30:14 Adapting to Modern Challenges in Aviation 32:40 Navigating Change: The Evolution of Standards 34:57 Learning from Failure: A Personal Journey 35:42 The Role of the Assistant Secretary 38:55 Preparing for Great Power Competition 41:09 Innovative Energy Solutions for the Future 44:58 Leadership Lessons and Final Thoughts   5 KEYS TO LEADERSHIP Embrace failures as opportunities for growth. Dr. Chaudhary shared how his failures, like failing a check ride, ultimately helped him grow as a leader. Keep moving forward, even in the face of adversity. Dr. Chaudhary emphasized the importance of keeping your "legs moving" and not giving up when faced with challenges. Leverage the bonds formed with your team. Dr. Chaudhary highlighted how the bonds he formed with his classmates at the Academy carried over into his missions, demonstrating the power of camaraderie. Empower and enable the next generation. Dr. Chaudhary expressed optimism about the capabilities of the current cadets and emphasized the need to get out of their way and let them excel. Maintain a service-oriented, patriotic mindset. Dr. Chaudhary's passion for serving his country and community was evident throughout the interview, underscoring the importance of this mindset in effective leadership.   ABOUT DR. CHAUDHARY '93 BIO Dr. Ravi I. Chaudhary is the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, Installations, and Environment, Department of the Air Force, the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Chaudhary is responsible for the formulation, review and execution of plans, policies, programs, and budgets to meet Air Force energy, installations, environment, safety, and occupational health objectives. Dr. Chaudhary most recently served as the acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy. Prior to this role, he served as the Director of Advanced Programs and Innovation, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, at the Federal Aviation Administration. He provided technical leadership and oversight for the commercial space industry, to include research and development activities to support Department of Transportation and White House National Space Council initiatives. Prior to this role, he served as Executive Director, Regions and Center Operations, at the FAA. In this role, he was responsible for leadership, integration and execution of aviation operations in nine regions nationwide. Dr. Chaudhary served as second in command to the Deputy Assistant Administrator and was responsible for providing Department of Transportation and FAA-wide services in the areas of operations, safety, policy, congressional outreach and emergency readiness for the National Aerospace System. Dr. Chaudhary commissioned in the Air Force in 1993 upon graduation from the United States Air Force Academy. He completed 21 years of service in a variety of command, flying, engineering and senior staff assignments in the Air Force. As a C-17 pilot, he conducted global flight operations, including numerous combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as a ground deployment as Director of the Personnel Recovery Center, Multi-National Corps, Iraq. As a flight test engineer, he was responsible for flight certification of military avionics and hardware for Air Force modernization programs supporting flight safety and mishap prevention. Earlier in his career, he supported space launch operations for the Global Positioning System and led third stage and flight safety activities to ensure full-operational capability of the first GPS constellation. As a systems engineer, he supported NASA's International Space Station protection activities to ensure the safety of NASA Astronauts. Dr. Chaudhary is a DoD Level III Acquisition Officer and has published numerous articles in future strategy, aircraft design, business transformation and space operations.  - Bio Copy Credit to AF.MIL   CONNECT WITH DR. CHAUDHARY LINKEDIN  |   INSTAGRAM  |  TWITTER     ABOUT LONG BLUE LEADERSHIP Long Blue Leadership drops every two weeks on Tuesdays and is available on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn + Alexa, Spotify and all your favorite podcast platforms. Search @AirForceGrads on your favorite social channels for Long Blue Leadership news and updates!          FULL TRANSCRIPT OUR SPEAKERS Guest, The Honorable Dr. Ravi I. Chaudhary '93  |  Host, Lt. Col. (Ret.) Naviere Walkewicz '99   Naviere Walkewicz 00:00 My guest today is the assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy installations and environment, the Honorable Dr. Ravi Chaudhary USAFA, Class of '93. Against the backdrop of Great Power Competition, Dr. Chaudhry leads the modernization and reoptimization of the Air Force to ruggedize our installations across the globe against what he describes as kinetic threats, as well as non-kinetic cyber, economic and extreme weather threats. He has served as acting deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for energy; the director of advanced programs and innovation, Office of Commercial Space Transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration; and he has led in the commercial space industry research and development in the support of the Department of Transportation and the White House, National Space Council. We'll talk with Dr. Chaudhry about his life before, during and after the Academy. We'll discuss his role, modernizing and re-optimizing initiatives and strategies for the Air Force. We'll touch on leading through new and changing threats and making decisions with climate in mind, and we'll discuss Dr. Chaudhary's work with the secretary of the Air Force and leadership at the base, command and warfighter levels. Finally, we'll ask Dr. Chaudhary to share advice for developing and advanced leaders. Dr. Chaudhary, welcome to Long Blue Leadership. We're so glad to have you.   Dr. Chaudhary 01:18 Navier, thank you so much. Thank you for that way too kind of an introduction, and I only have one regret. On this weekend, did you have to mention that I was in the Navy for a little while? You just about blew me away. I know you've got some white clear liquid here. I'm just about ready to find out what the clear liquid is.   Naviere Walkewicz Cheers.   Dr. Chaudhary 01:40 Off we go, and we'll let our audience speculate, and depending on how it goes, we'll critique ourselves. Just an honor to be here, and congrats to you on your career of service in the Air Force.   Naviere Walkewicz Thank you so much. This is truly a pleasure. And I think what we love about Long Blue Leadership is it's really about our listeners getting to know you. And we have so many different listeners that are really excited. So let's start with the hat. I've noticed we've got a hat on right here. “Air Force Installations: Best in the World.” Let's talk about it.   Dr. Chaudhary Yeah, let's talk about that. Because we do have the best installations in the world. Our installations are power projection platforms. Every Air Force installation has a mission that begins and terminates with it. If you go all the way back in our history, Gen. Hap Arnold had this to say about our installations: “Air bases are the determining factor in air operations.” Think about that. Think about why we need to make sure that our installations are ready to go, and why we invest in them as an Air Force. It's because you can't get the jets out of town unless they have a good runway that works, unless they are hardened and ready to absorb the types of blows that have come to us in the past. And I'm telling you right now that we've got to be ready for this future, in a decade of consequence in Great Power Competition. We've got to focus on ruggedizing and ensuring that our installations are as survivable as they ever have been.   Naviere Walkewicz Absolutely. Well, I can say that that is certainly true, having been at bases where we've seen some challenges, it does halt and sometimes stop operations. So yeah, you're right. Yeah. So it's incredible the work you're doing, and we're going to talk about that today. But before we get there, can we rewind the clock a little bit?   Dr. Chaudhary Please don't rewind it too far, but I have a feeling you will.   Naviere Walkewicz Just a little bit. Just enough to kind of get to know who Ravi was as a young boy. What were you like growing up? Tell us about your family and where you grew up.   Dr. Chaudhary That's cool. So, I was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I grew up there all my life. My parents came from India in 1960s and they always dreamed to do the unusual, it was the American Dream that brought them to this country. And they had kids, you know, and growing up as a South Asian American, you know, people in community would be like, “Hey, you know, why are you going to join the military? Why are you going to, you know, once you just be a doctor or engineer or lawyer or something like that?” Kind of fit the stereotype. But I always thought about it this way: If my parents would give up everything they wanted in their life, their language, their culture, everything to pursue their dreams, wouldn't they want that for their children as well? And so off I went to the Air Force Academy, and the values that my parents instilled in me rang true just about every single day. In fact, when I grow up, my mom would always tell me this. She'd say, “You know, if you do your full duty, the rest will take care of itself.”   Naviere Walkewicz That sounds very familiar to me.   Dr. Chaudhary And she would say, in the Sanskrit word for that — and my faith tradition is Hinduism — the Sanskrit word for that is “dharm.” If you follow your dharm, everything will take care of itself. And lo and behold, I'm getting choked up a little bit, because when I showed up and opened that Contrails and saw that quote, I knew that Mom and Dad had prepared me, had prepared me for the challenges that would come, not just the Academy, but everything from 9/11 to deploying to Iraq to raising a family and making sure they have everything they need to prosper. So, all that brought me to an institution that honestly brought out the flavor and gave me in the same opportunity that this country gave my father. So, it's just been a pinch-me career, and it's just an honor to be here with you today and with the entire AOG team talking about this.   Naviere Walkewicz 05:36 That's amazing. I mean, I, thinking about what you just said, that your parents came and they pursued a dream. What was that like in your household? What did that look like?   Dr. Chaudhary 05:45 Here's what it looked like. My dad — he actually came to this country with about $165, $80 of which went to his tuition. He was at University of Missouri, and then he eventually went to University of Minnesota. The rest he used to get a house and fill the fridge. And so, when he was looking for an opportunity to serve, he wanted to be in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and serve as a fed and so he didn't get that chance. So, what he did, he literally drove, put me and my brother and my mom in a car and drove to Washington. When he drove to Washington, he dropped us off at the Lincoln Memorial and walked up the stairs of the Capitol. Two senators from Minnesota, one was walking out, Sen. Walter Mondale. He said hello to him. He didn't know him from Adam. And then he went to the office of Hubert Humphrey and he sat down with him, and he told his story to Hubert Humphrey and Hubert Humphrey said, “This is what America is all about.” And he was kind enough to give my dad a shot in Minneapolis. And he spent his entire career, 25 years, as a federal inspector in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.   Naviere Walkewicz My goodness.   Dr. Chaudhary It's an incredible story. But you know what? It all came together about a year and a half ago when I was confirmed and during my swearing, and it was honored to have Sec. Kendall swear me in, but to have my dad walk up the front steps of the Pentagon with my mom and I. We go up the stairs, and I said, “Dad, would you turn around for a second?” And he turned around. I said, “You know, you can see the Lincoln Memorial and you can see the Capitol.” And I said, “Look what you've done in one generation.” That is the embodiment of the American dream. And as he was kind of — I'm getting choked up — he wiped the tears from his eyes. He realized that that that what this country has given to us is something that we've got to always think about giving back and giving back, and that's really what my career has always been about, giving back to the country that has given my family everything.   Naviere Walkewicz 07:59 That is amazing. Wow. I mean, I'm almost without words, because I can see what your dad has instilled in you, made possible, but instilled in you as a servant leader as well. I'm just… that's pretty impressive. So, tell me about your mom, because it sounds like she also instilled some pretty incredible traits in you and some beliefs in how to treat people. What did that look like in, her leadership in your life?   Dr. Chaudhary 08:26 What can I say about my mom? She's a pillar of the community back in Minneapolis. She runs a nonprofit called Seva. In Hindi, seva means service, to serve, serve your fellow citizens, serve your nation. And again, I told you about her, her enduring quote, “If you do your full duty, the rest will take care of itself.” So, in that nonprofit, she is actually bringing cultural-specific services, health services, to the Asian American community. One thing she did during Covid was incredible. She pulled together a meal team, and she served somewhere around 20,000 seniors. And it wasn't just Asian Americans, anybody in the Minneapolis community that was struggling, that couldn't get food, that was having a tough time. And then, as you know, after the George Floyd tragedy occurred, the town, the city went through a tough time, and there was an area right around one of the police stations where the riots were going on and everybody was fleeing when. When the community was fleeing, she was mobilizing her team to go in. They were going in and they were rescuing people from shelters to get them to a safe place. And two days later, she brought a team into the community that was still smoldering and set up meal stations to just give people sandwiches, bread, whatever — to just make everybody feel good and move forward, and that's what America is about. Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the times and differences, but we realize that America is more than just Washington. America is about neighbors and neighbors caring for each other. So, where did I learn that? I learned that from my mom, but the Air Force Academy brought it out, and I applied that every single day, whether it was a mission launching GPSs, doing engineering — tough engineering problems, or flying missions into the CENTCOM AOR, where we had to bring crews to bear to execute incredible missions. And so, reflecting on that — boy, you're really tearing me up today…   Naviere Walkewicz No, not at all…   Dr. Chaudhary …because you're bringing this all out of my heart, and it's just an honor to be here and humbling to tell the story. But I know that there are thousands and thousands of grads out there that have just as inspiring stories, and that's why I love to come to AOG. That's why I like to spend time with our cadets today, which was just as incredible. I went down to Jacks Valley and got to see the assault course as well. Luckily, I didn't have too many flashbacks.   Naviere Walkewicz I was going to say, did you have your rubber ducky with you?   Dr. Chaudhary Yeah, I did not. They didn't push me through it, but the demo was incredible. And I know our secretary was equally impressed with the cadets and the caliber of students that are here, the caliber of our cadets, and how I'm so optimistic for the future of our Air Force and Space Force.   Naviere Walkewicz 11:33 Absolutely. And I can share, based off of what you shared about your mom and dad, there's no reason why you're [not] able to take on a job that almost seems impossible with the scope and breadth of what you're responsible for. So, I can't wait to get into that as well. Can we go to when you're at the Academy? I want to know more about you as a cadet, because as interesting as you are as an adult, what were you like as a cadet?   Dr. Chaudhary 11:54 There's a lot that I really shouldn't disclose. Okay, so we've got to be really, really careful. So, me and my classmates, we have this thing called “mutually assured destruction.” You know stories about me, I know stories about you. Just leave it there. But let me tell you, the Academy was just the honor of a lifetime. But you know what — going through it with your classmates is something. I was just having lunch with our cadets today. I was a grad of Delta Tau Deuce, and to spend time with them and tell them stories, and hear about their stories, about what Deuce is like these days, was absolutely just, I was just blown away with it. But yep, I was primarily in Deuce. I had the just pleasure of beaing a squadron commander and having peers that really care for each other, peers that I keep in touch with. To this very day, I have them up on text.   Naviere Walkewicz Oh, wow.   Dr. Chaudhary And we share with each other. We have challenges. We go through it together, but I will tell you one story about why your cadet story matters, and you don't realize it until the balloon goes up. When I graduated from pilot training, I graduated essentially the day after 9/11 and I was actually in the planning room when 9/11 happened, and within a few weeks — I did my check ride that day — within a few weeks, I was at Charleston Air Force Base, and my squadron commander had me look out the window and said, “We don't have time to mission qual you. We don't have enough pilots. We're going to marry you up with a crew to go down range.” And you know what he did? He married me up with two people, one who was my classmate from the Class of 1993,   Naviere Walkewicz Really?   Dr. Chaudhary Two was a member of my squadron from Deuce, and he was a new aircraft commander. We had an experienced first pilot, and I didn't know nothing from nothing. I was a brand-new co-pilot. And so, getting ready for that, for those missions, a new environment for me, required something that our squadron commander knew that if I put three Academy graduates together, the bond that they've had in their years was going to carry them through toughest conditions, in unknown conditions. And sure enough, we clicked and did well. But to anybody who's a current cadet and listening in and wondering, “Hey, is this bonding — is what's going on now, the time that we have together here in the Academy going to amount to anything?” I'm here to tell you, it does and through my own life experiences, and quite honestly, in a number of missions, we fly working it together as a team. The bonds we create as cadets carry over for decades.   Naviere Walkewicz 14:54 So maybe you can share some of those bonding moments at the Academy. You said you were a squadron commander. What were some of the lessons you learned from a leadership aspect, in leading your peers, but also while still trying to bond with them?   Dr. Chaudhary 15:08 Yeah, when you look back, sometimes you're separated by age and rank, right? You got age and you got rank and your peer groups kind of set you that way. At the Academy, it's completely different because your peers, as a senior, you're all peers and colleagues, and to take on a leadership role is what I would say is the toughest challenge of all. To lead a team of peers and colleagues can be challenging. And there's challenges that really kind of come with everything like that, but to me, you can't do it without collaboration, without consulting folks and being inclusive in how you give people a voice. Now the jury is out — I'm not going to judge whether I was successful or not. Probably not, you know? But I will say we did one thing: It was gonna be we were gonna be the athletic squadron of the year. We were a beast. In fact, we decided that we were gonna go for one thing: We were the athletic squadron. And so, we did.   Naviere Walkewicz That's impressive!   Dr. Chaudhary We kicked some serious buttt. So, back in the day, you do what was called a sweep. So, if you swept all your sports and intramurals that day, you would, the next day, you would get Mitch's Mountains. And so, the lore of Mitch's Mountains was incredible. And today, interestingly enough, we had what I would call Mitch's Mountain version 2.0 — probably half the calories and twice the caffeine. I don't know what it is. But I actually whipped out a picture of an old Mitch's Mountain. And I show them, they're like, it was really funny, because to see the look in their eyes and to see an original Mitch's Mountain, it was like, oh, you know they looked at and they're like, “That's what a Mitch's…” And they're like, “There's an Oreo cookie on top!” I'm like, for us, “Ok, this is a nice 2.0” and everything, like you gotta go back to…   Naviere Walkewicz 17:05 So, how many of those did you get? If you were actually the athletic squadron, you must have swept multiple days.   Dr. Chaudhary 17:12 You see the love handles on me right now? That was the one challenge. Because, you know, [you‘ve] got to stay in shape. But we kicked some serious butt; we would sweep all the time. I was actually on the water polo team…   Naviere Walkewicz 17:25 …we share that. I did not enjoy it. It sounds like you might.   Dr. Chaudhary 17:30 I don't know. So, I'm a decent swimmer. I'm pretty good. Grew up in Minnesota, tons of lakes. I could say I'm a decent swimmer, but I can tell you I am not a water polo player. So, what they used me for in water polo…   Naviere Walkewicz Were you the buouy?   Dr. Chaudhary I was the anti-buoy, because whoever was the good player, they'd say, “Go and put your arms over that one and get them underwater,” so that our fellow water polo teammate could go in and score. And so, probably one of my most beloved plaques in my life is my water polo plaque because we were Wing champs.   Naviere Walkewicz Oh, my goodness!   Dr. Chaudhary We ran the tables and were Wing champs, and that plaque still sits on my desk. It's one of my most beloved things. You know, my wife, she's getting ready to toss it. I'm like, “No, no, not that!”   Naviere Walkewicz Not the water polo plaque!   Dr. Chaudhary She's like, “Oh, what about this graduation plaque from the Academy?” You can get rid of that, but don't get rid of my water polo plaque. That is beloved. So anyways, I was asking cadets today, “What's Deuce like?” I'm like, “So are you guys a training squadron?”   Naviere Walkewicz What are they like?   Dr. Chaudhary They're like, “We're the standards squadron.” And I'm like, “Wow, that's impressive.” I'm like, “What about Mach One? Are they the training?” So, they're like, “Mach One. Nah, not really.” They're like, “We're No. 1 in SAMIs. We're No. 1 is…? I'm like, “Oh, wow, they still have SAMIs and stuff like that.” Have fun. Yeah, that was a haze for me. Triple threats were always a haze, yes, so I never liked that, because well…   Naviere Walkewicz 18:49 Maybe the Deuce team does now.   Dr. Chaudhary 18:53 Mach One, they loved it. I've got friends from Mach One. They're gonna kill me, but yeah, they love it. They're all into it. Cleaning their rooms and Deuce would be on the corner going, “Would Mach One please go to bed?” So anyway, sorry. But yeah, it was an interesting time, you know, talking with some of our cadets.   Naviere Walkewicz 19:26 I love these stories. So, were you this happy as a cadet?   Dr. Chaudhary 19:31 No, I was not a happy cadet. I was a surviving kid. I was trying to get through the next day. And honestly, to me, it was always a wonder to be there, and I was always grateful for being there to serve. I was in a tough major, aero major, and honestly, it didn't come right away to me. And so I was not one of those sterling cadets that just rocks the house and everything. I was on the Comm List for a good portion of the time, but the academics took some time for me. I spent a lot of time in the aero lab. And, you know, the cool thing is, …  I did projects and drag reduction, and we we tested these winglets on the tips of wings, and we did flow visualization. I had this professor. His name was Tom Yechout, and I was talking to some aero majors today. They're like, “You know, Tom Yechout?” And I'm like…   Naviere Walkewicz He's still there.   Dr. Chaudhary “He teaches controls here” I go, “Well, he taught me flight controls as well.” But he supervised me, and one time, I think, maybe at the last reunion, he brought me to the cabinet, and he opened up the cabinet and he showed me the hardware that we used for our project.   Naviere Walkewicz 20:39 From your class?   Dr. Chaudhary 20:43 Yeah.   Naviere Walkewicz That's amazing!   Dr. Chaudhary And here's why I'm telling you that: When in my interview with Sec. Kendall, he sat me down and he was talking about, “Hey, in your in your team, we're doing some drag reduction activities.” And he's like, “What do you know about blended wing body aircraft?” And it turns out, not only had I done some research on that, I had done a project at Staff College and to me, you know, my message to cadets out there who are working on a project who are wondering, “Hey, is this going to amount to anything? Does this matter?” I'm here to tell you that it does, because the type of work that goes on at this Academy is literally out of this world. We got folks who are working with SpaceX. I went down and that we're actually doing a project called the blended wing aircraft, which is like a big flying manta ray. It's going to reduce fuel consumption by roughly 30% to reduce fuel for fuel consumption across our Air Force and extend our range.   Naviere Walkewicz How are we going to do that?   Dr. Chaudhary Well, we're going to build a prototype in 2027. One of my sections is operational energy, and we have a team dedicated to reducing drag on aircraft, finding efficiencies. Why is this important? Well, it's because in Great Power Competition, we know that our adversaries are going to come after our logistics and fuel — our resources. And as a logistician, you know that. Our adversaries are targeting our installations, they're going to target our fuel resources. So, what's the best thing we can do? We can be as efficient as we can with our fuel and flying C-17s, is one thing you get to know real quick that if you land at an austere location, you're going to drain that fuel bladder almost instantly. And what does that mean? That means less sorties. That's less fire missions if you're flying Apache's out of there. That means less fuel for generators if you lose power. That means less ability to get your CAPs in the air, and we've got to embody that as a department and be ready for what that challenge holds for us. So getting efficient with our field, to me, isn't something that we're going to do because we're nice. We're going to do it because it's going to be an imperative. It's going to be a strategic imperative, and we've got to be ready for that. And so, we've been working hard at those things. The blended wing body aircraft is a long-term thing that it's been out there for a long time, but we've got to proof it. And so, it's really cool…   Naviere Walkewicz It's almost full-circle for you.   Dr. Chaudhary Yeah, it's incredible. And we just were at this, at the plant for Jet Zero. We did a visit there to spend some time with them and look at look at their production facility. And what do I see when I walk in the conference room? Five cadets sitting on the end of the table, learning, taking notes, interacting with the top systems engineers. And interestingly enough, one of those cadets had come and visited me and spent the summer — actually, three of them. She was part of a team of three that came and visited my organization and worked on the impacts of strategic temperature changes and how it will affect payloads for tanker aircraft. And so, they did this research, presented me this paper, and now here I am seeing them at industry being on the leading edge. And to me — let me tell you that filled me with so much optimism and excitement for the future, and most importantly, what we're producing here at the Air Force Academy, a top-notch engineering school that is regarded across the industry. So, a little turn to academics there, but big shout out to what we're doing across our academic programs. I just think we're on the right track, and we need to keep up the momentum.   Naviere Walkewicz 24:30 No, that's huge. I was actually going to ask you, how are you leveraging some of our cadets in some of the things you're doing? But it sounds like they're already doing it.   Dr. Chaudhary 24:40 Check! Done. They're rocking the house. Just, just leading the way. It's awesome.   Naviere Walkewicz 24:43 That's amazing. Yeah. So, let's talk about — and I'm really curious — so, after you graduate the Academy, did you know you always wanted to be a pilot, by the way? Did you know you wanted to fly?   Dr. Chaudhary 24:50 I can't remember a day where I wasn't drawing airplanes. And you're asking me about when I was younger. You know, “What kind of kid were you?” I was a kid who was drawing airplanes. OK, I was the kid with the airplane books. I was a kid who was checking out every single airplane book and library and learning about them and trying to understand them and wanting to know more. And so naturally, it was just — I can't think of a day where I didn't want to be an aerospace engineer, be a pilot. And you know, sometimes the ebb and flow of demand for the Air Force —there was a time of reduction in pilots for the for the Academy, and I didn't get that opportunity then and it was a bummer. But you know, if you do your full duty, the rest will take care of itself. And so, I landed at Los Angeles Air Force Base where we launched this program. I got to launch rocket programs. And you may have heard of this particular payload: It's called GPS.   Naviere Walkewicz 25:44 I might have heard of that one, yes…   Dr. Chaudhary 25:47 …and it was the first time we were doing it. And we're young lieutenants, and we're at Los Angeles Air Force Base, and I was getting the responsibility for third-stage engines and ordnance systems and some of the avionics, and my boss said, “We don't have time. We're launching rockets every single month. I need you to go out to this corporation called Thiokol, and I want you to buy that rocket.” And by the way, he said it in a way that was like, “Don't screw this up,” right?   Naviere Walkewicz The undertone was there.   Dr. Chaudhary Yeah, we've had that don't-screw-it-up moment. And so that was one of them. And so, the one thing that I remember is that our Academy demands a lot, and it demands a lot for a reason. Because leaders will be demanding a lot of brand new officers. Now the jury's out as to how well I did, but we had three we had three successful missions, and we delivered full operational capabilities for our department. And to me, I look back on that. I, believe it or not, still keep in touch with the captain who welcomed me, who brought me on the team and, in 2018, I got the incredible opportunity to let the last Delta II rocket go. And I brought my wife and my daughter with me, and that kind of brought the whole band back together. And it was cool to have kind of the old space cowboys and in the room again going, “Well, let's, let's let this rocket go for one last time.”   Naviere Walkewicz That is really cool.   Dr. Chaudhary And the best part of it was, after that rocket went and you felt the rumble — the rumble of a rocket, there's nothing like it in the world. When you feel the rumble go into your stomach — I leaned over my daughter. I go, “What do you think?” She said, “I am doing that.”   Naviere Walkewicz 27:34 I was just going to ask you, did it bleed over into your daughter?   Dr. Chaudhary 27:38 Now, she's a cadet at Georgia Tech. She just finished field training, and of course, like every good Academy graduate should do, buck the system. So, she bucked the system with her dad and said, “I'm gonna do ROTC and go to Georgia Tech. So, good luck this weekend against Navy. I'll kind of vote for you, but just want to let you know the Academy is a lot easier than Georgia Tech.” So, she and I jaw back and forth, but watching her grow has been really cool. And I got a chance to take her up and fly and get her ready for her career. She wants to be a pilot. And let me tell you, we got nothing on this next generation. They are ready for technology. They are ready for the leading edge, and we've just got to enable them. Honestly, we've got to get the hell out of the way and let them in. There's one situation, we had new avionics on the aircraft. I won't bore you with the details, but it allows you to deconflict from traffic. It's a GPS-based instrument, and I was kind of flying with her one time a few years ago, and I said, “All right, well, this is what is so, you know that little piece, you know 2,000 below you, positive means 2,000 above you. It's closing it…” She's like, “Dad, Dad, Dad, stop, stop!”   Naviere Walkewicz 28:58 She knew…   Dr. Chaudhary 29:00 She knew how to interact with that technology, and honestly, I didn't. I was learning how to interact with that technology. So, we've got to really make sure that we're blazing a path for our next generation, but at the same time, make sure that that we're not getting in their way. And I think sometimes we do that as grads. We're like, “I was like this when I was there…” You know? I was at Mitchell Hall today, and I saw the 0-96 up there and it's memorialized. And I walked by that thing…   Naviere Walkewicz 29:32 Did you scan the QR code to fill one out?   Dr. Chaudhary 29:33 Yeah, I did not do the QR code. I was like, that's too much for me. But when you look at it, you know, I thought, I'm like, that's probably where that thing ought to be right now. It's a great remembrance of why it's important, why standards are important, and then the example of how it paid off in combat conditions and saved a life was pretty important. But I'll be honest with you, we find other ways today with this next generation. I can remember flying one mission and we lost SATCOMMS with a particular field, and we were roughly maybe six hours out for Iraq in the combat zone, and we didn't know the status of the field. And one of the things you need to do is make sure the field's not under attack. So, before we did that, we're like, “Hey, how do we get our 30-minute… You know, it just wasn't happening. But you know what we're doing. We had brevity codes. And all along the line, all the C-17s that were lined up miles after miles going all the way back to Azerbaijan at 30,000 feet. We're all on. We're communicating. … We're using brevity code, so, we're not giving anything away. We're using our brevity code, and we're saying this is the status of the field. And we're relaying, we're literally relaying a half world away. That's a testament to our pilot corps, testament to duty. And so it's really in the spirit of that 0-96 there that we've adopted. So, when people say, “Oh, that tradition is going to ruin us, you know, we're going to lose standards.” I could tell you that, even though we got rid of that thing, that we're still an effective force. And I think we have to understand that a little more and as we kind of move through a period of change at USAFA — I was talking to our cadets about, “Hey, what do you think about the changes?” and, “Yeah, well, restrictions, but I understand on the importance.” I'm going to hearken back to 1991 or so, when the first Gulf War kicked off, and we were cadets when that thing kicked off, and almost instantly we moved into BDUs. We started wearing those every day. We started creating the warfighter mindset. We sealed off to make sure that we had good security. We canceled a lot of passes, and you  know what we did? We moved from a fourth-class system to a four-class system. Sound familiar? Sound familiar? That was after the war kicked off. Think about that. After the war kicked off. Our superintendent is trying to do it before the war kicks off, to make sure that we're ready, ready to fight the fight and get into it. So, I have a lot of respect for our superintendent and taking this step. I do agree that we've got to get execution right. Sometimes you get some growing pains with those things, but I think we've got to step back in the grad community and digest a little bit and get behind some of the changes that have been going on. And I was talking to some cadets last night, I go, “What do you think of this?” And they're like, “We understand it. It hurts a little bit.” Because the expectations … the environment that we're in has now changed. And you know, honestly, I'll shoot straight from the hip and say that sometimes it feels like the goal post is being moved on you, because you meet one standard, and then they move again. Yeah, you know, things get tough, but we're a resilient institution, and when you get down to the brass tacks of who we are as grads, the core of what we do and execute our mission will never go away. And we've just got to blaze a path for our next generation to be successful.   Naviere Walkewicz 33:24 Absolutely. Well, speaking of blaze a path — and I think some of our listeners want to hear sometimes, you know they have times when they fail at things in leadership. How do you grow from that? Can you share a time when you experience failure and what it looked like, to help inspire them through that.   Dr. Chaudhary 33:42 Yep. Well, worst day of my life was when I failed a check-ride. I failed a simulator check-ride in the C-17. And it hurt. It hurt bad. I had aspirations in my career. I was like, “What's this gonna mean for me?” But you know some really smart folks, and that's when you turn to people who you really go to for advice, and it's like, you know, “Ravi, there are those who have and those who will.” So honestly, I just needed a smack in the head. They're like, “Get over it, man. You know, whatever you failed check-ride. Go out there, clean that thing up and those ups and downs in a flying career occur.” I'm being 100% honest with you, my failures are stacked up right next to my successes. And so, I think, to me, the failures were the things that helped me grow, grow through things and sometimes you think, “OK, well, that failure was unfair. I got, you know, I got a raw deal out of that.” Maybe I did, maybe I didn't, but you keep moving forward. Keep taking one step after another. Now I'm not a football guy. I love football. Watch about I never played football, but I do know what running back coaches say. I think, I'm not sure, they say, “Above all, always keep your legs moving. Don't ever up when you're running. Keep your legs moving.” And so, to me, I've always taken that advice. I've given that advice to other people too, especially when they come to me with challenges.   Naviere Walkewicz 35:09 That's great advice. So maybe we can talk about your role now a little bit. And so, can you actually explain what you do? It might actually be shorter to say what you don't do, because when I look at the description, it's quite a bit. We have listeners that are parents and that maybe don't have a lot of military background and really understand. So, I think it's wonderful to share with the full community.   Dr. Chaudhary 35:31 Yeah, let me talk about the position. So, the job is one of those long titles. It's the assistant secretary for energy, installations and the environment. First thing first. I'm not a military member. I am a presidential appointee, so my job is as an appointee, a Senate-confirmed appointee. That means that you go through a hearing like you see in TV, and you get voted on, right? You get the vote. I was lucky enough to have after a period of being held, I had a bipartisan vote. And so that was pretty neat to have that. But my role specifically is to ensure that our installations are ready for the fight, for the future fight, and for current conditions. Things that I lose sleep over: Right now we're in a decade of consequence that our secretary and chief regularly say that decade of consequence includes great power competition in which China and Russia seek to shape the world order in ways that that work to their advantage, in autocratic manner, and so we've got to be ready for that, and that includes establishing an important deterrence. So, my job is to make sure installations are strong and present an approach of deterrence, and when deterrence failed, be ready to win. So, what does that mean for us? That means ensuring that our installations have power capabilities, that have strong runways, that have strong hangars, strong facilities, and included in which — families live on installations as well — to ensure we have top-notch housing. So, you'll see me reaching across all those areas, but importantly enough, making sure that those installations have the right power is critical. Our adversaries have declared their intent and have the capacity to go after our critical infrastructure, and that's the one thing that keeps me up at night: making sure that we have critical redundancies and opportunities to if somebody comes after our infrastructure tries to cut our power, we have redundant capabilities, that our control systems are cyber hardened. And you mentioned earlier, both kinetic and cyber threats. So roughly in the past two decades, as China has modernized our CENTCOM theater has really shaped an environment in which CONUS installations are under threat a little bit, but not entirely. We could be relatively confident that Grand Forks would be generally safe from ISIS from a major attack. In Great Power Competition, all of that goes out the window. Our adversaries, to include Russia and China, know how to go after critical infrastructure. They know how to employ cyber capabilities, and that's why we've got to make sure that we are pursuing cyber hardened energy control systems that protect you from those threats, and the ability to island from the local grid when we need to. So, here's one thing we're doing. I'm on a march over the next five years to bring 20 or so micro grids across our most critical installations. A micro grid — it's kind of like a power bar. You plug it in the wall and you can plug in renewable energy, you plug in wind, geo, you know, all kinds of things into that — solar — to build critical redundancies. So ultimately, building those redundancies allows you to harden your capabilities at the installation and micro-reactors give you the ability to manage and distribute power where you need it. Now we can also put in battery storage. So, battery storage allows you to — when the balloon goes up, boom, put in a firewall with the local community and get the jets out of town. Keep your employed in-place mission moving and build critical redundancies. Then once the jets are out of town, plug back in and share that power with a local community, because we know that our adversaries are going to be driving civil disruption to affect the efficiency of our installations as well, too. So that dynamic is really complex.   Naviere Walkewicz Wow, and the time is compressed.   Dr. Chaudhary And the time is compressed, so we won't have time to react as quickly. So, we've got to prepare for an all-new environment in our installations. And it goes right back to the Hap Arnold quote. We've got to make sure that they're ready to ensure our operations are effective. And I was recently at Eielson Air Force Base, and what we're doing at Eielson is really novel. We're going to put in a small, modular micro-reactor, a small baby nuclear reactor.   Naviere Walkewicz Is there a small version of that?   Dr. Chaudhary Yeah, there is a small version, but it hadn't been developed yet, and we decided that we're going to push on with this new capability and bring it to Eielson Air Force Base. The key is to now — back in the day, we used to do something, proof it military-wise, and then see if it's viable in the in the commercial market, right? Not anymore. We're going to do it all concurrently. So, we're going to pursue a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license. We've been engaging the local community. They love it, including tribal nations, who know that power advantages are going to be important for sharing in the community. And so that will be the first micronuclear reactor in any installation. We're looking to award in the spring or sooner, and then get this thing up and running in 2027. Why is this important at Eielson? And you're like, “Whoa, it's way up in Alaska.” Eielson is a critical entry point for the INDOPACOM theater.   Naviere Walkewicz I was gonna say, where it's located…   Dr. Chaudhary It's where the one of the highest concentrations of our 5th-gen fighter force is at. It's where we do air defense, and it's where our mobility forces will be moving from Fort Wainwright all the way down range. So that's a critical node, and there's a few more of those that we've got to really, really stay focused on. So, energy and, by the way, a happy Energy Action Month as well. This month is Energy Action Month where we're looking at how we can improve power consumption across our Air Force and be more efficient. And bringing these micro-grids online is going to be a crucial, crucial aspect of that.   Naviere Walkewicz 42:07 Well, something I've learned about you is that you're not afraid to push the envelope, push the speed, but do it, like you said, concurrently and to find some solutions. And I don't know that there's anyone else that could do it just like are you're doing it.   Dr. Chaudhary 42:19 It's not me, it's my team. I have an incredible team of folks that refuse to accept anything [less] than excellence in our department. In fact, we have a saying in our organization that, “We eat no for breakfast.” So, I dare you to tell us no and that we can't do something. One of our coolest announcements recently that we were told “no” to for roughly three years, was a new apartment complex at Edwards Air Force Base. So, some folks may not know this, but Edwards Air Force Space is very isolated, and it's located in the desert, and so it takes roughly 45 minutes to get to the base once you get through the gate. And so, isolation of our military members, especially our junior enlisted, has been around for roughly four decades or more. And when we said, “Hey, let's do a venture-backed business model that allows us to bring state of the art departments not in MILCOM timeline like right now, timeline…” And so, we just announced an all-new venture commercial apartment complex that we just broke ground on, and we're going to start building, hopefully done by 2026 and these are timelines that allow us to move the Air Force forward aggressively. Another thing that we're doing is, I just announced a $1.1 billion investment in our dormitories and CDCs. As you know, quality of life is so critical. Back to this: If we're going to be, say that we're the number, have the number one installations in the world, we've got to live up to it, and that means our families need that too, as well. So, you've heard a lot about the GAO reports, everything from mold to decrepit housing. We're going to fix that, we're going to get ahead of it, and we're going to stay ahead of it. And so that's why our secretary, in our most recent president's budget, announced this. All we need is a budget now, yeah, and so, so our secretary is pressing hard for that, and we know that once that budget is approved, we can get working on these things and start changing quality of life and start upping our game in our installations.   Naviere Walkewicz 44:23 Well, I'm gonna take one of those leadership nuggets as “just eat no for breakfast,” but we're gonna learn more about your final takeaway lessons. Before we do that with you. Dr Chaudhary, I wanna thank you for listening to Long Blue Leadership. The podcast publishes Tuesdays in both video and audio, and it's available on all your favorite podcast platforms, watch or listen to all episodes of Long Blue Leadership at longblueleadership.org. Dr Chaudhary, this has been incredible. If you might leave our listeners with one thing, what would you like to share with them when it comes to leadership, or maybe just some lessons or anything about you that you'd like to share?   Dr. Chaudhary 44:57 Love what you do. Love our nation. I love my country because it's given me and my family everything. And I want everybody to believe that, you know, sometimes we get in these periods where we feel divided right across the spectrum, and it doesn't matter what your affiliation is, sometimes you just feel that. But I want folks to remember that America is not about what goes on entirely in Washington. It's about neighbors. It's about what you do for your neighbors. And to me, that's our biggest strength as a nation. You know, many years ago, our forefathers felt that the values of equality, fair treatment and self-determination would be enough to topple an empire, and it is. We should believe that too, and I want everybody to know that. So, it's an honor to be here. But before I go, I want to say thank you for just an intriguing hour. It's an honor to be here, and I want to give you my personal challenge coin…   Naviere Walkewicz Oh my goodness…   Dr. Chaudhary …and say thank you so much. It embodies a lot of what we do, military family housing, airfields, of course our beautiful 5th-gen fighter aircraft and our wind power and capabilities as a symbol of what we've got to do for installation school.   Naviere Walkewicz 46:16 That is an honor, sir. Thank you. Thank you so much. Oh my goodness, thank you.   Dr. Chaudhary 46:20 It was a great hour, and just a pleasure to spend time with…   Naviere Walkewicz 46:26 It was my pleasure. There's so much I wanted ask you and I know we're limited on time … Is there anything we can do for you?   Dr. Chaudhary 46:36 Just keep doing what you do. Keep making sure that our grads out there have a voice, have a say, and can contribute to all this institution has to offer our nation. And so, you're doing it, and I can't thank you enough for it.   Naviere Walkewicz 46:49 Thank you very much.     KEYWORDS Air Force, Dr. Ravi Chaudhary, leadership, installations, energy, community service, innovation, military, great power competition, sustainability, Air Force Academy, leadership, aviation, innovation, energy solutions, GPS, pilot training, military standards, personal growth, resilience     MORE FROM DR. CHAUDHARY ON THE FOR THE ZOOMIES PODCAST with C1C ANDREW CORMIER '25     The Long Blue Line Podcast Network is presented by the U.S. Air Force Academy Association and Foundation      

La Encerrona
INSÓLITO: Dina se protege con francotiradores en un colegio #LaEncerrona

La Encerrona

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 19:26


Esta semana se aprobará la Ley Cerrón a favor de sicarios, extorsionadores y secuestradores. El criminólogo Nicolás Zevallos explica sus muy peligrosas consecuencias. MIENTRAS TANTO, URGENTE: Hoy o mañana aprobarán, al caballazo y sin consultas, la nueva y censuradora Ley Anti Cine Peruano. ADEMÁS: Ampayamos al hermanito Hinostroza en Europa. Y... SORTEO para una obra de teatro basada en Eielson y más en nuestra agenda cultural de la semana. **** ¿Te gustó este episodio? ¿Buscas las fuentes de los datos mencionados hoy? SUSCRÍBETE en http://patreon.com/ocram para acceder a nuestros GRUPOS EXCLUSIVOS de Telegram y WhatsApp. También puedes hacerte MIEMBRO de nuestro canal de YouTube aquí https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0AJJeNkFBYzegTTVbKhPg/join **** Únete a nuestro CANAL de WhatsApp aquí https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAgBeN6RGJLubpqyw29 **** Para más información legal: http://laencerrona.pe

Dakota Datebook
February 8: The Search for Ben Eielson

Dakota Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2024 2:43


Carl Ben Eielson is a famed North Dakotan, known for being a pioneer of polar aviation. On November 9th,1929, Eielson and his mechanic Earl Borland disappeared on a flight to Siberia. They were on a rescue mission to an ice-bound ship. By November 16th, the ship reported that the plane had not arrived.

10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
Flying the Tornado F3. "Bones" Ledsham (Part 2)

10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 110:43


 Buy 10PCT Merch! https://www.10percenttrue.com/shopSupport me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh0:00 Intro and a quick sidebar on medals2:45 Plan for today3:35 Exchange with RAF on the Tornado F3 - how it came about/cultural differences 11:45 F3 radar limitations/NAV quirks/witches tit14:30 OCU16:49 To 29 Squadron “Tripplex”19:48 Akrotiri 26:00 The value of exchange tour? Transfer of ideas/knowledge?27:45 Skyflash limitations and F3 ergonomics 31:40 F3 vs F-18 handling characteristics 36:30 Another Cyprus story(s)39:55 Training to engage at range but with limitations 42:26 DACT vs Mirage 200044:25 Further discussion of limitations and advantages of the F3 49:15 Eielson and Cope Thunder58:00 Playing with Dutch Vipers 1:00:50 Bone escort1:02:00 Parties1:06:25 Back to tactical flying and a stint in the Falklands1:20:20 What was the expectation in terms of potential action in the Falklands1:22:00 A Canadian's view of the type of flying in the Islands1:27:40 Low level1:33:13 BFM vs a Navy destroyer 1:35:40 Bosnia1:40:15 “Most interesting” Bosnia story1:45:00 Combat trepidation/validation?1:47:30 Trying to “see” helicopters with the radar Support the show

The Ghost Story Guys
Haunting in the Military 2: The Man in the Chair

The Ghost Story Guys

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2023 85:49


Usually we wait a little longer to do follow-up episodes, but a listener story sent in after our first "Haunting in the Military" episode inspired us to get this one out fast. We start by digging into stories of haunting from Air Force bases like Kadena, Fairchild, and Eielson, then we launch into one of the strangest stories we've ever told on this show - a Navy Corpsman's encounter in the far reaches of Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Story Time Codes:Building 2283, Kadena Air Force Base (09:11)More Haunting on Kadena (21:27)Shadows on Kadena (25:38)Alone at Eeilson AFB (28:45)The Goat Man of Fairchild AFB (39:30)The Man in the Chair: A Djinn in Helmand Province (50:20)Full shownotes can be found at www.ghoststoryguys.comOur Sponsors:* Check out Factor and use my code ghoststoryguys50 for a great deal: https://www.factormeals.com/ghoststoryguys50Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-ghost-story-guys4724/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

American Countryside
Carl Ben Eielson

American Countryside

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2023 3:00


If you live in the states of North Dakota or Alaska, you quite likely have heard of Carl Ben Eielson.  His aviation firsts in the...

InForum Minute
Morning headlines: Movie to be made about heroic North Dakota aviator Carl Ben Eielson

InForum Minute

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2023 4:38


Today is Friday, May 12. Here are some of the latest headlines from around the Fargo, North Dakota area.  InForum Minute is a product of Forum Communications, brought to you by reporters from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAY TV. For more news from throughout the day, go to InForum.com.

Around the Air Force
Around the Air Force — Dec. 8 (long)

Around the Air Force

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2023


This edition features a story on changes in the Air Force's tattoo policy, the Air Force Outstanding Unit award being awarded to the 86th Air Lift Wing and the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing for 2008, musician, Kid Rock, visiting Incirlik Air Base to perform a concert for troops based there, spouses getting an opportunity to see what their pilot husbands do by participating in an incentive flight, Lajes Field holding a Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) blow out event at the base's commissary, and Sesame Street and the United Services Organization (USO) at Eielson Air Force Base, (AFB) Alaska; teaming up to help Air Force children understand lengthy deployments. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

Around the Air Force
Around the Air Force - March 4 (long)

Around the Air Force

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2023


This edition features stories on an Air Force C-130 conducting the first combat air drop of the new the low-cost low-altitude (LCLA) air drop re-supply system, an air crew from Yokota experiencing a simulated combat scenario during a training exercise where they launched five C-130 aircraft simultaneously, Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska conducting Red Flag exercises where fuel-lab technicians play a major role in the exercise's success, some senior Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) at Spangdahlem Air Base helping keep Airmen's morale high by providing them warm food and sandwiches while pulling duty outdoors in the brisk conditions, service members at Hickam Air Base celebrating the Year of the Air Force Family with a big party, and a combination of U.S. Reserve Airmen and members of the Croatian army receiving water purification training at Ramstein Air Base. Hosted by Airman 1st Class Alina Richard.

Around the Air Force
Around the Air Force - Dec. 30 (long)

Around the Air Force

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2023


This edition features stories on Eielson security forces Airmen taking the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) field sobriety testing certification, and some of the top stories of 2009, including the appointing of the newest Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force (CMSAF), Lackland Air Force Base being the preferred alternative for the permanent location of the new 24th Air Force, and the first CMSAF, Paul Airey, being laid to rest in Arlington, Va. Hosted by Senior Airman Brad Sisson.

Crack House Chronicles
Ep. 142 The North Pole Murders

Crack House Chronicles

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2022 40:56


In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles Donnie and Dale take a sleigh ride and discuss the North Pole Murders. Between 1979 and 1981, girls and young women disappeared around the town of North Pole, Alaska, only for their remains to show up later. When their cause of deaths matched up, local State Troopers knew they had a serial killer involved.... eventually, they flew out of state to track down the killer. https://crackhousechronicles.com/ Check out our MERCH! https://www.teepublic.com/user/crackhousechronicles Sources: https://robinbarefield76.medium.com/the-north-pole-murders-2df18db4c864 https://frankweberauthor.com/blog/its-just-another-manic-bunday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bunday  

Gosta de Cinema?
Gosta de Medida Provisória?

Gosta de Cinema?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2022 34:58


No retorno do Gosta de Cinema, Briele, Elielson e Patrícia conversam sobre o filme Medida Provisória. Filme de estreia de Lázaro Ramos como diretor. Siga o gosta de cinema nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/gostadecinema/ https://twitter.com/gostadecinema https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8bUn72N/ Siga Briele, Patríca e Eielson nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/brielefernanda/ https://www.instagram.com/cordeirospaty/ https://www.instagram.com/elielsonjuniorrr/ Apresentação: Briele Fernanda, Elielson Júnior e Patrícia cordeiro. Roteiro: Foi no freestyle mesmo Edição e mixagem: Briele Fernanda Música: Brazil - SergeQuadrado

Gosta de Cinema?
Spoilers, Séries e Romances

Gosta de Cinema?

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2021 70:26


Nesse episódio do Gosta de Cinema, conversamos sobre alguns assuntos relacionados ao mundo do audiovisual. Siga o gosta de cinema nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/gostadecinema/ https://twitter.com/gostadecinema https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8bUn72N/ Siga Briele, Patríca e Eielson nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/brielefernanda/ https://www.instagram.com/cordeirospaty/ https://www.instagram.com/elielsonjuniorrr/ Apoie o podcast mandando um pix para a chave: gostadecinema@gmail.com Apresentação: Briele Fernanda, Elielson Júnior e Patrícia cordeiro. Roteiro: Briele Fernanda Edição e mixagem: Briele Fernanda Música: Happy Times - Alejandro Magaña

Gosta de Cinema?
Revisitando Sexta-Feira Muito Louca

Gosta de Cinema?

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2021 46:59


Nesse episódio do Gosta de Cinema, conversamos sobre o filme Sexta-Feira Muito Louca de 2004. Vídeo mencionado no episódio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LK_2E7ZVt8&t=1s Siga o gosta de cinema nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/gostadecinema/ https://twitter.com/gostadecinema https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8bUn72N/ Siga Briele, Patríca e Eielson nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/brielefernanda/ https://www.instagram.com/cordeirospaty/ https://www.instagram.com/elielsonjuniorrr/ Apoie o podcast mandando um pix para a chave: gostadecinema@gmail.com Apresentação: Briele Fernanda, Elielson Júnior e Patrícia cordeiro. Roteiro: Briele Fernanda Edição e mixagem: Briele Fernanda Música: Turn This Up A Little Louder - Michael Ranir

Gosta de Cinema?
Existe preconceito com filme de terror?

Gosta de Cinema?

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 64:18


Nesse episódio do Gosta de Cinema, conversamos sobre o preconceito que existe com filmes de terror. Siga o gosta de cinema nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/gostadecinema/ https://twitter.com/gostadecinema https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8bUn72N/ Siga Briele, Patríca e Eielson nas redes sociais: https://www.instagram.com/brielefernanda/ https://www.instagram.com/cordeirospaty/ https://www.instagram.com/elielsonjuniorrr/ Apoie o podcast mandando um pix para a chave: gostadecinema@gmail.com Apresentação: Briele Fernanda, Elielson Júnior e Patrícia cordeiro. Roteiro: Elielson Júnior Edição e mixagem: Briele Fernanda Música: Portals - Ketsa

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "El papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 0:39


Yamila tiene nueve años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema favorito.

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "El papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2021 0:52


Diego tiene nueve años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema favorito.

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "El papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2021 0:40


Alessandra tiene nueve años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema favorito.

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "El papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2021 0:49


Eduardo tiene nueve años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema favorito.

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "Papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2021 0:46


Dylan tiene diez años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema preferido.

lima papel eielson
Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "Papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2021 1:01


Jeyko tiene siete años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema favorito.

lima papel eielson
Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "Papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021 0:50


Miriam tiene ocho años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema preferido.

lima papel eielson
Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "El papel"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2021 0:47


Melany tiene nueve años, vive en Lima, Villa El Salvador y nos comparte su poema preferido.

PiCast
El "Misterio" de Jorge Eielson y otros poemas

PiCast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2021 35:10


John M. Kennedy Traverso habla de la vida y obras del poeta Jorge Eielson, su mundo artístico, de sus nexos con El Hotel Chelsea y nos recita e interpreta tres de sus poemas: 1.- Misterio 2.- Inmediatamente después de haber leído 3.- Campidoglio (Capitolio) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/john-kennedy98/message

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Una casa sin puertas: Jorge Eduardo Eielson

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2021 5:42


Manuel Alonso Navazar nos comenta un poco más sobre los poemas "Poesía en A mayor" y "Poema en forma de pájaro" de Jorge Eduardo Eielson.

Military Murder
Ep83. NORTH POLE SERIAL KILLER: Eielson AFB

Military Murder

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2021 37:52


In August 1979, a serial killer began his reign of terror in North Pole, Alaska, just a few miles from Eielson AFB. But what happens when a faulty criminal profile throws a wrench in the investigation? Will Alaska State Troopers be paralyzed by the profile or will they keep an open mind and actually catch a serial killer that appears to have just vanished? Dig in with Margot as she brings you this rarely told story of a military serial killer named TSgt Thomas Richard Bunday (aka “the North Pole Serial Killer”).  ---- Thanks to Today's Sponsors: Better Help! Get 10% off your first month of counseling by visiting Betterhelp.com/militarymama.  Heartbeat Hot Sauce! Get 20% OFF your ENTIRE order by going to heartbeathotsauce.com and using code “MILITARYMAMA” at checkout. EveryPlate! Visit everyplate.com and use code “militarymama199” to get your meals at $1.99 per meal plus 20% OFF your next two boxes.    Best Fiends! Download “Best Fiends” on the Apple App Store or Google Play!  ---- Join the Patreon Fan Club today – you can listen ad free, enjoy full length bonus episodes, and engage with like-minded listeners on our private Facebook Page. Tiers start at $1 a month. https://Patreon.com/militarymurder ----- Military Murder is a military true crime podcast that focuses on murders committed by military members, veterans, and sometimes their family members. ---- Follow on social: Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/militarymurderpodcast Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@militarymurder Facebook: https://facebook.com/militarytruecrime Discussion Group: https://facebook.com/groups/militarytruecrime Email: militarymurderpodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pensar un rato
Episodio Especial: Ser Artista - Jorge Eduardo Eielson

Pensar un rato

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2021 7:08


Tras un par de semanas de silencio por cuestions técnicas, vuelvo PuR con el minipodcast de poesía. En este episodio hablamos sobre el valor del arte y el odio que despierta en los fascistas. Este episodio está dedicado a todos los y las artistas que resisten desde y en el arte: escritoras, poetas, muralistas, bailarines, músicos. PuR está con ustedes. — Pensar Un Rato es un proyecto de divulgación de filosofía, ciencias sociales, arte, actualidad y política, comprometido con el pensamiento crítico y la lucidez, ahora pueden encontrarlo en Twitter como @_PensarUnRato y en la página web: www.pensarunrato.com. Este proyecto es posible gracias a quienes lo comparten en todas sus redes sociales. Pueden apoyar Pensar Un Rato en Patreon. Patreon es un modelo de suscripción que le permite a la audiencia apoyar financieramente a sus creadores de contenido favoritos mientras reciben material exclusivo. Al suscribirse, usted recibirá algunos beneficios como contenido exclusivo (acceso a los episodios por adelantado, transcripción de los guiones, elección de los temas de próximos episodios, entre otros) y este recaudo se destinará a fortalecer la infraestructura del proyecto (contratar talento humano, mejorar las especificaciones técnicas). En este link puede suscribirse: https://www.patreon.com/pensarunrato — Produce y presenta: Miguel Hernández Franco — Como de costumbre, este podcast no sería posible sin el apoyo del gran Manuel Valencia. Síganlo en sus redes @_PopMachine | MECENAS: Melissa Cárdenas; María Hernández; Germán Hernández; Antonio Nardi; Bernardo Covo; Carolina Torres; Laura Sierra; María Ximena Acuña; Juan Camilo Gitterle; Juan Felipe Blanco; Isabel Granados; Ángela Echeverry Aristizábal; Ana Gamboa; Alexander Neumann; Ana María Aguirre; Sergio Tapias; Julián Pinzón Eslava; Katherine Bustamente; Vicky Franco; Gloria Maya; Leo Hernández; Jorge Melguizo; Víctor Arango; Susana Covo; Luis Carlos Covo, David Gómez Alzate, Samuel Giraldo, Julián Beltrán Acero, Natalia Torres Behar; Alexandra; Cristina Rosero; Claudia González.

Dakota Datebook
Carl Ben Eielson Memorial Aviation School

Dakota Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2021 2:36


On March 28, 1930, the University of North Dakota's student newspaper, the Dakota Student, reported on a student petition to establish a Carl Ben Eielson Memorial Aviation School. Professor Norman T. Bourke, head of UND's department of mechanical engineering, scoffed, “There is no more a place here at the University for a school of aviation than there is for a school of chauffeurs. After all, the University is a place for mental development and not a place to learn the art of flying.”

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "Poema en forma de pájaro"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2021 0:59


Leydi tiene nueve años, vive en Lima, Lurigancho Chosica, El Vallecito y nos comparte su poema favorito

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!
Jorge Eduardo Eielson, "Poesía en A mayor"

Pido la palabra... ¡Leemos juntos!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2021 0:42


Arby tiene catorce años, vive en Lima, Lurigancho Chosica y nos comparte su poema favorito

0684-Radi0
0684-Radi0: New Canaan Health Director Jenn Eielson on COVID-19 Virus, Vaccinations (Feb. 23, 2021)

0684-Radi0

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 10:59


This week, we talk to New Canaan Health Director Jenn Eielson about COVID-19 virus—how the town is faring in reducing infection rates and getting residents vaccinated, what are some common misconceptions regarding coronavirus, and whether Jenn has enough peanut butter and chocolate to get through these next few months.

The Llama Lounge
Ep. 60 - Unfiltered Leadership w/Team Eielson

The Llama Lounge

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2020 82:31


In this episode, Joe welcomes Team Unfiltered Leadership, Chris Brown, Paul Hammer, and Calin Cronin to the lounge. The team is comprised of 3 Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officers stationed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. During their discussion, they explored the topics of turning obstacles into opportunities, adaptable leadership, the importance of self-reflection, and much, much more. Team Unfiltered Leadership's Book Recommendations: Turn the Ship Around – L. David Marquet: https://amzn.to/2ZXpx2O Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek: https://amzn.to/33OhxCj Leading the Unleadable – Allen Willet: https://amzn.to/3mBcUnD Culture Code – Daniel Coyle: https://amzn.to/33LMjeR Jesus Freaks – DC Talk: https://amzn.to/2ZV7tGj The Power of Moments – Chip and Dan Heath: https://amzn.to/33KBee3 Follow Unfiltered Leadership here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnfilteredLeadership/ Podcast: Unfiltered Leadership | https://open.spotify.com/show/0eLTVImVSspCrzgP8I5XU1 LLAMA LINKS Website: http://www.llamaleadership.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/llama-leadership Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LlamaLeadership Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llamaleaders/

Squash Masters
Interview With Caroline Eielson: A Fighting Spirit!

Squash Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2020 9:40


On today's episode I interview Caroline Eielson, former Gu15 and 13 number 1. We talk about how her whole family plays squash and much more. Lets get into the interview! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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0684-Radi0: New Canaan Health Director Jenn Eielson (July 16, 2020)

0684-Radi0

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2020 14:42


This week, we talk to New Canaan's director of health, Jenn Eielson, about COVID-19 data, contact tracing, mask-wearing and how local businesses are faring. 

Nerds Amalgamated
High Stakes, Hollywood & Forbidden Library

Nerds Amalgamated

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 55:42


It's that time of week again, so check out our newest episode.To start this week, we have a bit of levity. NASA have programmed one of their robots to hit itself with a shovel. It's all for a good cause, they want to get their InSight lander's mole digging again. The probe became stuck and using the shovel as a hammer is just the latest attempt to get it going again.DJ wants to tell us about Hollywood's response to COVID-19, including delays to the filming of Amazon's Lord of the Rings series. Now New Zealand has closed their borders and the Hobbits will not be going to Isengard.Next, it's time to enter THE FORBIDDEN LIBRARY. It isn't just in Harry Potter anymore; a group have created a library dedicated to copying articles from countries without press freedom. Did we mention it's in Minecraft? Next time you get busted playing Minecraft when you should be doing homework, just say you're researching.On this week's games section, Professor makes a declaration that will surely lead to war. Having experienced Final Fantasy 7 and Black Mesa, he declares Black Mesa the better remake. If anyone has an issue with this, we'll have to substitute fisticuffs with videogames.NASA’s high stakes mission: interplanetary whack a mole-https://hackaday.com/2020/03/12/interplanetary-whack-a-mole-nasas-high-stakes-rescue-plan-for-insight-landers-science-mission/Coronavirus hits Hollywood-https://www.bleedingcool.com/2020/03/15/the-lord-of-the-rings-series-suspends-new-zealand-production/- https://deadline.com/2020/03/rob-mcelhenney-challenge-studios-pay-staffs-shows-shut-down-coronavirus-1202883656/Minecraft library of forbidden texts- https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/tech/minecraft-uncensored-library-scli-intl/index.htmlGames PlayedProfessor- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Demo - https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0082-CUSA07237_00-FFVIIREMAKETRIALRating – 8/5DJ– Warface - https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/warface-ps4/Rating – 3.5/5Other topics discussedCoronavirus Update- https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/Glastonbury festival cancelled due to coronavirus- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/mar/18/glastonbury-festival-postponed-due-to-coronavirusIncidents of price gouging during the coronavirus- https://www.choice.com.au/shopping/online-shopping/selling-online/articles/coronavirus-and-price-gougingMonsters Inc : 2319- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUFJ1yVhJ6gAladdin : Genie calling a Code Red- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MF345T3GX8Update : The interplanetary whack a mole mission was a success- https://www.popsci.com/story/space/mars-mole-plan-c/Elijah Wood’s take on Amazon’s Lord of the Rings TV series costing $1 Billion- https://www.indiewire.com/2019/04/elijah-wood-lord-of-the-rings-amazon-1-billion-1202127879/2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike (From November 5, 2007, to February 12, 2008, all 12,000 film and television screenwriters of the American labor unions Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) went on strike. The strike sought increased funding for the writers in comparison to the profits of the larger studios.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strikeTV shows that were affected by the strike- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_America_strike_on_televisionHeroes Season 2 (One of the shows negatively affected by the Writers Guild strike)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_(season_2)Coronavirus: TV Shows That Have Halted Or Delayed Production Amid Outbreak - https://deadline.com/2020/03/coronavirus-tv-shows-production-delayed-1202881997/Coronavirus: Movies That Have Halted Or Delayed Production Amid Outbreak - https://deadline.com/feature/movie-productions-postponed-coronavirus-hollywood-films-1202882857/Radio Drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_dramaThe War of the Worlds (an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898). The episode became famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)Disney releases Frozen 2 to Disney Plus three months early due to coronavirus outbreak- https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21179447/frozen-2-disney-plus-stream-date-coronavirus-avengers-endgameJamal Khashoggi (Saudi Arabian dissident, author, columnist for The Washington Post, and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_KhashoggiWikileaks (international non-profit organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaksTerrorist use video games to communicate and plan terrorist attacks- https://www.thewrap.com/jack-ryan-terrorists-actually-use-video-games-communicate-plan-attacks/Other Game to Movie adaptations coming soon- Dungeons & Dragons coming out in 2021 - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2906216/- Super Mario Bros: The Movie coming out in 2022 - https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7634766/Rate My Bit (TNC Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/ratemybitpodcastShout Outs15 March 2020 – Japanese student graduation ceremony now in Minecraft – https://soranews24.com/2020/03/15/japanese-students-hold-graduation-ceremony-in-minecraft-amid-school-cancellation/Japanese Twitter user Backyennew shared several photos and videos highlighting the inventive efforts of his son and his schoolmates. Backyennew says his son already regularly played Minecraft with his friends, so it quickly became their go-to hangout after the Japanese government closed schools two weeks ago in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Using it as a social space to hold their own graduation ceremony just made sense. It looks like these kids built a whole dang assembly hall, complete with a stage, seating, and a proper red carpet which they could all walk down in order to receive their virtual diplomas. The backdrop is even emblazoned with the word "Summer," just to reinforce the end-of-school vibes. Japanese netizens seemed to feel the same way with their comments:“The kids are all right.”“Parents are doing ‘telework’ and kids are doing ‘telegraduation.'”“I’m so jealous of what awesome things kids have these day.”“Those who say video games are bad, look at this!”“This will probably be an even better memory than a regular graduation for them.”16 March 2020 – Sonic beats Detective Pikachu…in the box office - https://movieweb.com/sonic-the-hedgehog-video-game-movies-box-office/Sonic the Hedgehog has managed to claim a record by becoming the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time, at least at the domestic box-office. The Paramount production currently stands at a little above $145 million dollars domestic collection. This puts it slightly ahead of Detective Pikachu, which managed to make around $144 million domestically. However, Detective Pikachu is still ahead of Sonic the Hedgehog in international territories, with earnings of over $400 million dollars. The future of video game movies appears to be looking bright now, with the medium finally being considered seriously by big Hollywood studios which are willing to allocate huge budgets and significant star power to those projects.16 March 2020 – Steam hits 20 million concurrent users - https://www.pcgamesn.com/steam/20-million-users-coronavirusThe precise number being 20,313,451. Curiously, though 20 million is the highest since records began, the number of in-game players is yet to break records. It appears a lot of users are idling in their library, browsing the store, or have just left it running in the background. The top game as we speak is CS:GO at 971k, followed by Dota 2 with 616k and PUBG at 264k. The 14 million difference between those logged into Steam and those playing is substantial, but this record at least points to continued growth for Valve’s platform. Increased competition from companies like Epic doesn’t appear to have caused any major issues, though Fortnite did once beat Steam’s in-game player record all on its own.Remembrances16 March 1935 – John Macleod - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Macleod_(physiologist)John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first. He died after suffering from several years of arthritis at the age of 58 in Aberdeen.16 March 2012 – Donald E. Hillman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._HillmanDonald Edison Hillman, American World War II flying ace and prisoner of war credited with five enemy aircraft destroyed. He was also the first American pilot, in 1952, to make a deep-penetration overflight of Soviet territory for the purpose of aerial reconnaissance. He flew a Boeing B-47B Stratojet which left Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. It crossed over the Arctic ocean, turned eastwards back over Siberia, and returned to Eielson via Provideniya. It was the United States' first deep-penetration reconnaissance mission against the Soviet Union. He died at the age of 93 in Seattle, Washington.16 March 2016 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Esenin-VolpinAlexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American poet and mathematician. A notable dissident,political prisoner and a leader of the Soviet human rights movement, he spent a total of six years incarcerated and repressed by the Soviet authorities in psikhushkas and exile. In mathematics, he is known for his foundational role in ultrafinitism. His early work was in general topology, where he introduced Esenin-Volpin's theorem. Most of his later work was on the foundations of mathematics, where he introduced ultrafinitism, an extreme form of constructive mathematics that casts doubt on the existence of not only infinite sets, but even of large integers such as 1012. He died at the age of 91 in Boston.Famous Birthdays16 March 1774 – Captain Matthew Flinders - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_FlindersEnglish navigator and cartographer who led the second circumnavigation of New Holland that he would subsequently call "Australia or Terra Australis" and identified it as a continent. Flinders made three voyages to the Southern Ocean between 1791 and 1810. In the second voyage, George Bass and Flinders confirmed that Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) was an island. In the third voyage, Flinders circumnavigated the mainland of what was to be called Australia, accompanied by Aboriginal man Bungaree. Heading back to England in 1803, Flinders' vessel needed urgent repairs at Isle de France (Mauritius). Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the scientific nature of his work would ensure safe passage, but a suspicious governor kept him under arrest for more than six years. In captivity, he recorded details of his voyages for future publication, and put forward his rationale for naming the new continent 'Australia', as an umbrella term for New Holland and New South Wales – a suggestion taken up later by Governor Macquarie. He was born in Donington, Lincolnshire.16 March 1840 – Shibusawa Eiichi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibusawa_EiichiShibusawa Eiichi, 1st Viscount Shibusawa, Japanese industrialist widely known today as the "father of Japanese capitalism". He spearheaded the introduction of Western capitalism to Japan after the Meiji Restoration. He introduced many economic reforms including use of double-entry accounting, joint-stock corporations and modern note-issuing banks. He founded the first modern bank based on joint stock ownership in Japan. The bank was aptly named The First National Bank (Dai Ichi Kokuritsu Ginkō, now merged into Mizuho Bank) and had the power to issue its own notes. Through this bank, he founded hundreds of other joint stock corporations in Japan. Many of these companies still survive to this day as quoted companies in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which Shibusawa also founded. The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry was founded by him as well. He was also involved in the foundation of many hospitals, schools, universities (including the first women's university), the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and charitable organizations including the Japan Red Cross. On April 9, 2019, it was announced that Eiichi would be the historical figure featured on Japanese ¥10000 banknotes expected to enter circulation around 2024. He was born in Fukaya, Saitama.16 March 1856 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on,_Prince_ImperialNapoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, prince imperial, the only child of Emperor Napoleon III and his wife, Eugénie de Montijo. After his father was dethroned in 1870, he relocated with his family to England. On his father's death in January 1873, he was proclaimed by the Bonapartist faction as Napoleon IV, Emperor of the French. The asteroid moon Petit-Prince was named after the Prince Imperial in 1998, because it orbits an asteroid named after his mother (45 Eugenia). He was born in Paris, French Empire.16 March 1936 – Raymond Damadian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_DamadianRaymond Vahan Damadian, American physician, medical practitioner, and inventor of the first MR (Magnetic Resonance) Scanning Machine. Damadian's research into sodium and potassium in living cells led him to his first experiments with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) which caused him to first propose the MR body scanner in 1969. Damadian discovered that tumors and normal tissue can be distinguished in vivo by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) because of their prolonged relaxation times, both T1 (spin-lattice relaxation) or T2 (spin-spin relaxation). Damadian was the first to perform a full body scan of a human being in 1977 to diagnose cancer. Damadian invented an apparatus and method to use NMR safely and accurately to scan the human body, a method now well known as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He went on to collaborate with Wilson Greatbach, one early developer of the implantable pacemaker, to develop an MRI-compatible pacemaker. He was born in New York City, New York.16 March 1971 – Alan Tudyk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_TudykAlan Wray Tudyk, American actor and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the space western series Firefly and the film Serenity and Tucker McGee in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. He has also had starring roles in the films DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story,I, Robot,A Knight's Tale, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Rogue One. Since voicing King Candy in 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, Tudyk has voiced characters in every Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film. He wrote, directed, and starred in the comedy web series Con Man (2015–17) about a struggling actor whose career is still defined by a successful science fiction TV show he was once on, loosely based on Tudyk's own experience having been on Firefly. The series aired on Syfy in 2017 and earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. As of 2019, Tudyk plays the main antagonist, Mr. Nobody, in the DC Universe series Doom Patrol. He was born in El Paso, Texas.Events of Interest16 March 1926 – First liquid-fueled rocket - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-liquid-fueled-rocketAmerican Robert H. Goddard, successfully launches the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1926. The rocket traveled for 2.5 seconds at a speed of about 60 mph, reaching an altitude of 41 feet and landing 184 feet away. The rocket was 10 feet tall, constructed out of thin pipes, and was fueled by liquid oxygen and gasoline. His work was recognized by the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, who helped secure him a grant from the Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Using these funds, Goddard set up a testing ground in Roswell, New Mexico, which operated from 1930 until 1942. During his tenure there, he made 31 successful flights, including one of a rocket that reached 1.7 miles off the ground in 22.3 seconds. Meanwhile, while Goddard conducted his limited tests without official U.S. support, Germany took the initiative in rocket development and by September 1944 was launching its V-2 guided missiles against Britain to devastating effect. During the war, Goddard worked in developing a jet-thrust booster for a U.S. Navy seaplane. He would not live to see the major advances in rocketry in the 1950s and ’60s that would make his dreams of space travel a reality. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is named in his honor.16 March 1968 – My Lai Masscre - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/my-lai-massacre-takes-place-in-vietnamA platoon of American soldiers brutally kills as many as 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai, one of a cluster of small villages located near the northern coast of South Vietnam. The crime, which was kept secret for nearly two years, later became known as the My Lai Massacre. a platoon of soldiers from Charlie Company received word that Viet Cong guerrillas had taken cover in the Quang Ngai village of Son My. The platoon entered one of the village’s four hamlets, My Lai 4, on a search-and-destroy mission on the morning of March 16. Instead of guerrilla fighters, they found unarmed villagers, most of them women, children and old men. The soldiers had been advised before the attack by army command that all who were found in My Lai could be considered VC or active VC sympathizers, and were told to destroy the village. the massacre reportedly ended when an Army helicopter pilot, Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, landed his aircraft between the soldiers and the retreating villagers and threatened to open fire if they continued their attacks. The events at My Lai were covered up by high-ranking army officers until investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story. Soon, My Lai was front-page news and an international scandal.16 March 2001 – Terminator has a rare theatrical re-release -https://www.scifihistory.net/march-16.htmlOn this day in 2001, The Terminator enjoyed a rare theatrical re-release in the United Kingdom. Written and directed by James Cameron, the SciFi/Thriller starred Michael Biehn and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and here's the plot summary:"In 1984, a human soldier is tasked to stop an indestructible cyborg killing machine, both sent from 2029, from executing a young woman, whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation."Follow us onFacebookPage - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General EnquiriesEmail - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195

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Alaskan Grappler Podcast
Alaskan Grappler Podcast Episode 11: Chris Frazier

Alaskan Grappler Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2020 22:57


For this episode I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chris Frazier. He is the head coach of Eielson High School and Middle School. He won a state title for Eielson and then transferred to North Pole to continue wrestling where he took 2nd as a senior. I’ve known Chris for a long time. We have officiated together and now we coach against one another. For this podcast we talk about when he started wrestling, who got him into it. Who his biggest influences are. The challenges he faces as a coach. We talk about the toughest people he’s wrestled, his favorite moment and so much more.

Nat Park Stories
Denali Interview with Two Adorable Little Girls

Nat Park Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2018 3:15


After riding the bus for 4 hours, we finally arrived at Eielson, which gives a breathtaking view of the park.    While I was taking in the view, two little girls ran up to me and started asking questions about my mic.  I asked their parents if I could do a quick interview and they agreed.    The girls, Lacy and Tora, were giddy, and although Tora soon lost interest in the interview, Lacy gives a really fun description of the view.    This is one episode where I’m going to urge you to go to my Instagram and see the picture of the two adorable girls. Not only can you see their too-cute-for words smiles, you’ll also be able to see what Lacy was describing during the interview.   Let’s hear their story!   --- Check out Nat Park Stories on Facebook, Instagram and Patreon for more content! 

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Pacific Newsbreak
Pacific Newsbreak for October 25, 2017

Pacific Newsbreak

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2018


Air Force F-35's make their mark in the Pacific as they travel to Okinawa and cold weather test in Alaska.

OmniTalk Radio - The Podcast Hub
UFORadio-International Special: ep #9: 1958 Eielson AFB Radar UFO Incident - Gerry Flood

OmniTalk Radio - The Podcast Hub

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2017 58:00


UFORadio-International Special ep#9: 1958 Eielson AFB Radar UFO IncidentGuest: Gerry Floodhttp://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case334.htmhttp://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/14495/just-for-the-record/Please consult this map to get better overview of the radar stations:http://omnitalkradio.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/8/4/108471077/map-gerry-flood_1_orig.jpgWe are discussing another Radar UFO incident with Gerry Flood, former US Air Force GCA radar air traffic controller. Incident happened in 1958 while Gerry was stationed in Eielson AFB in Alaska. Gerry observed a target on search radar (MPN-11) which was able to fly over 5,000mph and make turns instantly of over 90 degrees. Other radar sites were contacted and target was confirmed on their scopes too.This is a companion episode to our previous special that presented 1967 Radar Visual UFO Incident above Southern Florida:https://www.patreon.com/posts/uforadio-special-14058228OmniTalk Radio Network Home Page:http://omnitalkradio.weebly.com/OmniTalk Radio Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/omnitalkradioOmniTalk Radio Twitter Page:https://twitter.com/omnitalkradioOmniTalk Radio Podcast Page:https://player.whooshkaa.com/shows/omnitalk-radio-the-podcast-hub OmniTalk Radio Podcast RSS Feed:https://rss.whooshkaa.com/rss/podcast/id/2591OmniTalk Radio iTunes RSS Feed:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/omnitalk-radio-the-podcast-hub/id1271190891__________________________________________________Music Credits & Music ThemesMain Theme: N"http://incompetech.com/" href="http://incompetech.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">incompetech.com)

Poemas Peruanos
Jorge Eduardo Eielson lee sus mejores poemas

Poemas Peruanos

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2015 16:42


El poeta peruano Jorge Eduardo Eielson lee sus mejores poemas en esta recolección de poemas que hemos encontrado con mucha suerte y mucha felicidad. En este audio se encuentra Campidoglio y varios poemas de Noche oscura del cuerpo. Una belleza para los que aman la poesía

Poemas Peruanos
Jorge Eduardo Eielson - Campidoglio

Poemas Peruanos

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2015 1:12


usted no sabe cuánto pesa un corazón solitario hay noches en que la lana oscura la lana tibia que me protege llega hasta el cielo y mientras duermo mientras respiro mientras sollozo se me derrama la leche hirviendo sobre la cara y entonces una máscara magnífica con la sonrisa del rey de espadas cubre mi llanto y todo eso no es nada todavía usted no me creerá pero luchar luchar luchar todas las noches con un tigre hasta convertirlo en una magnolia y despertarse despertarse todavía y no sentirse aún cansado y rehacer aún raya por raya el mismo tigre odiado sin olvidar los ojos los intestinos ni la respiración hedionda todo eso para mí es mucho más fácil mucho más suave créame usted que arrastrar todos los días el peso de un corazón desolado

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31 Days in PACAF
31 Days in PACAF: Eielson Air Force Base

31 Days in PACAF

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2014


In August of 2014, a team of broadcasters and photojournalists travel throughout the Pacific, hoping to better inform the public regarding the everyday stories of Pacific Air Forces life. This team of Air Force public affairs members will capture the unique perspectives of Airmen stationed across three continents. On the second leg of their journey through the Pacific, the 30 Days in PACAF crew find themselves in the northern reaches of the Alaskan wild for their visit to Eielson Air Force Base, a place where camaraderie and resiliency are both crucial and common. (U.S. Air Force video by Airman First Class Danny Rangel/Released)

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Campus tour - Audio tour tracks
Stop 2: Eielson Building

Campus tour - Audio tour tracks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2009 0:46


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