Jared Isaacman

Because generally speaking, when a country is done with their jets, they've squeezed everything out of them because they know whatever comes next is going to cost like 10 times more, like an F-35 or something.

So we went to New Zealand.

We bought the entire New Zealand Combat Air Force.

They made a political decision to not have any offensive capability.

So we bought their A4 Skyhawks, which were same jets used in Top Gun, but they were upgraded with F-16 radars.

We bought Mirage jets from France, from Spain, from Jordan.

We bought L-159 Alkas from the Czech Republic.

We bought MiG-21s from Poland.

Um, it was, it was awesome.

Like it gave me a whole nother side.

Cause I, by that point I already had, you know, uh, 11, 12 years of business experience.

So now I was getting into like dealing with governments, which meant everything I learned in business, you just throw out.

Cause this is nobody, no, nothing makes sense in this world anymore.

Everybody's motivations are different.

Um, and when you're buying fighter jets from other countries, by the way, like people can talk about, you know, our government is corrupt.

Our government is not corrupt compared to any of these other countries that you're out there doing business with where, uh, you know, it is, you got to jump through some hoops to be able to buy military hardware from there.

But, um, it was a, uh, yeah, I mean, it was a, it was a great learning experience, put it that way.

Yeah, sure.

So we, our job was basically to be professional bad guys.

So, you know, or the op four, if you will, or aggressors, these are all, you know, kind of the terms that would be used.