Ryan Bodenheimer
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Appearances Over Time
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And so I flew fighter jets over Afghanistan.
I flew 70 combat missions over there.
Oh, my gosh.
And I would fly over these Ford operating bases that had thousands of US soldiers.
And I remember flying over one of them that was in the bottom of a 360-degree canyon.
And so it was down at the bottom.
And I was like, this is the least strategic thing I've ever seen.
And I asked the ground forces commander.
So we'd fly these combat missions.
And I would call them afterwards because we ended up dropping a few bombs.
And I was like, why is that base built down there?
And he said, oh, well, one of the strategies that we got from higher leadership was we had to draw out the insurgents from the local population and see who would shoot at us.
And I was like, what are we doing?
This is crazy.
Doesn't make sense to me.
Right.
But then I started to unpack.
And I told you I met Dick Cheney at the Super Bowl.
And it was kind of weird.
It was awkward.