Jo Ellis

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820 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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I was like, you know, I think I'm going to get out.

Like I never made it to flight.

I didn't think it was going to be in the cards for me.

And then on a whim, I decided to throw my packet together one more time, submit it.

And then they accepted me.

So I was like, oh, I guess I'm staying in this for a long term and I'm going to go to flight school.

And that's 18 months of training in lower Alabama at Fort Rucker.

And that involves warrant officer school, which is kind of like basic training again, but also with college level courses.

So like a lot of military history courses, things like that, military writing.

And then once you do that, you move on to SEER training, which is a very brutal three weeks of training.

And then after that, you go to primary flight training.

So once you do all that, then you can actually start flying the helicopters.

And you start out in a smaller aircraft, the Lakota, which is a UH-72 Eurocopter frame.

And then you move on to your what they call go-to-war aircraft, which for me, because I was guard, I already knew what I was going to fly.

There was no like selection process for that.

I just knew I was going to fly Blackhawks because Virginia only has Blackhawks.

So that's the only thing I can fly.

And so then I went to Blackhawk course and then finished that.

So about 18 months later, I was, I was a pilot and this was like around 31 years old, 32 years old.

How many hours do you think you have in a Blackhawk course?

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