Coleman Ruiz

Now it's zero.

Yeah.

Right.

But yeah, so it was good screening process.

I was like, oh shit, these guys are not messing around.

This is exactly what I wanted to do.

And the physical tests ramp up.

And coincidentally, I worked for him later, still friends with him now.

On my interview board was Britt Slabinski who won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Britt was on my interview board and he's a great guy.

And so, yeah, then you just wait.

And if you get picked up, you go out, you know, to the East Coast and you're really rolling the dice because I was on the West Coast.

You move your whole family, sell your house.

You may not have to sell your house, but we did.

And you move and you're going to do...

a nine month advanced training program at the command just to get into a tactical unit you know which we call squadrons and the best way tactically for me to describe the difference and look my time at team three was amazing i'm not diminishing it but let me just use free fall military free fall for anybody who's you know even done civilian free fall so it's jumping out jumping yeah

So if we go to the drop zone and we go jumping, right?

FAA regulations have you jump at 12,999 feet because as soon as you go above 13,000, you have to use supplemental oxygen, which is not a huge deal, but it's a pain in the ass for the airplane to have it.

And so...

99% of all your jumps, well, at any standard drop zone, your civilian jumps are going to be below 13 grand.