David Burke

And that took me to Navy carriers.

That took me to Navy Top Gun.

And it took me to be an instructor at Top Gun as a Marine.

Yeah, I mean, this Georgia is a mission of huge magnitude.

The number of sorties, the coordination with both us, our naval and air forces, Israel's air forces as well.

There is a lot going on.

I'm fortunate to draw on my experience.

I flew combat missions off aircraft carriers.

launching from the deck of a U.S.

carrier, very similar to how we started this operation in a lot of coordination with a lot of land-based assets.

This is an extensive, complex, and comprehensive, very air-centric attack to start off this campaign.

This is a

This is a big mission.

I don't want to make it sound like this is very small, but things that we've done in somewhat recent history, 2003 in Iraq, 2001 in Afghanistan, we are accustomed and well-trained to do exactly what you saw, which is hundreds of aircraft flying nonstop, 24-hour operations, long missions.

We had some flights that are 18, 19 hours long.

originating in the United States.

Those are B-2s from Whiteman flying all the way to Iran and back.

And so while this is pretty significant, this is something we are familiar with, something we've been training to for a long time, and something that the U.S.

military is actually really good at.

In this aircraft that we're talking about, the B-2, they're going to be a pilot and a co-pilot up in the aircraft, and oftentimes they'll swap