Rob Haney
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69 appearances
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1 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
Rob Haney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well played. Well played. Just relax. Well played. I understand that.
We've come a lot farther than that nowadays. Thank God. Just imagine that.
You can see the natural curvature of the earth as you kind of cut them out.
I think it was three weeks. It was three weeks, somewhere around there. Did you go to sniper school too? I did not.
I did not.
So I came in the army in 1984. So I've been in about right over right about 30 years. It's a pretty exciting time. Was that the year you were born? Yeah. It sure was. Yeah, so came in the Army in 94, spent two years up at the 10th Mountain Division in the cold, cold, two or three years up there as a private. I actually think back very fondly on those times.
I think Vern was in here a little bit earlier. Coming out of Alaska, Fort Drum, New York is a little bit different. It's really, really cold, but it's a lot of snow. And I learned a lot of things as a young private that I still keep with me today. You know, keeping a dry pair of socks, always having something else to change into and, you know, taking care of your feet.
We didn't have a bunch of stuff like helicopters or airplanes or trucks to get distracted by. Did a lot of walking as a private. And then for some reason, we either went to the Joint Readiness Training Center in the winter or we went down to Panama. So I had been on a couple trips down to Panama and experienced the jungle down there.
It is 100% a lot better than the thick snow. But I mean, you learn a lot being in the snow.
So I did not actually. So here's the pattern. Yeah, yeah. So I have like a kind of a awkward story. I was grew up in a small town called Hawthorne, Nevada, and only had about 3000 people. And we had to go like to Reno, Nevada to go to the recruiters. And I had always said I was going to go join the Marines, went up to go join the Marines. And
like shook on the door and shook on the door and it was closed and i was like what the heck so i kind of like went next door to the army guy he goes hey come on in here i got something for you and i'm like no i'm waiting on the marine he goes no just come in and have a seat and we'll sit down and talk and about three weeks later i was in the army down there for benning georgia totally sniped you from the marine yeah yeah so the army crew recruited putting chains around absolutely you can't get in so close i'm on the i was wholeheartedly going in the marines but
Yeah, well, here I am, 30 years later, still in the Army.
So I do work in ASALT, Army acquisitions and logistics and technology. So we buy and modernize major programs in the Army for the Department of Defense to – A, be ready for the next fight and deter our nation's enemies in preparation for war.
It's not. It is really buying tanks, buying the next generation tanks, looking at helicopters and the next generation of helicopters, buying the next generation of rifles, buying the next generation of goggles.
So, it is more of acquisition. We do a part of development of current and existing programs. So, the M1 tank, we do incremental improvements on the M1 tank that is, you know, advancements in technology.
Jay Garza, the sergeant that was right before me, they do kind of the research and looking at future requirements, and we do the buying of those requirements, my boss being the Army Acquisition Authority for us.
I didn't piss off anybody. That you know of. I don't think I pissed off anybody.
Hold on, hold on. I'm a people person. People like me. They like to talk.
Actually, that's kind of a joke because I'm usually pretty introverted. So I'm not sure how I got to go last and how I ended up down here today. You know what I mean?
That is exactly it. So they're like, hey, he can't do much harm. He's going last.
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