How a Navy Veteran Built an Aviation Business From Scratch
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I have some college, no degree, and I didn't come from anything crazy. So basically, if I can do it, you know, you can do it. Because as long as you just persevere and just don't let anybody tell you no and you just keep working at it, nothing can stop your mind.
Daniel McBride is an aviation maintenance expert, entrepreneur, and the owner of North Texas Aeronautics. He helps aircraft owners and operators maximize safety, reliability, and performance through expert maintenance, inspections, and technical excellence.
I did eight years in the Navy, and then I did six years in the Texas Army National Guard. And when I got out, all of a sudden I have a wife and two kids, and then I had to figure everything out on my own. I had so many different jobs, and then that's when I realized I couldn't really find happiness in anything that I was doing, but what I was happy doing was aviation. So I found my way back to aviation, and now, I mean, I look forward to going into work every day.
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. I'm your host, Jason Tyler. And today I am joined by someone who shares a name with a particular actor, Mr. Daniel McBride.
Yep. Daniel McBride. Daniel McBride. Everyone asks if, uh, if I'm related to Danny McBride.
Mm hmm.
How did Daniel McBride's military service shape his post-service expectations?
You get you must get that pretty often. I do, but I go along with it.
So just run with it. Yeah, I just run with as with most most things in life. Just just run with it. Absolutely. So we're about to go into filming your episode of operation CEO, what would you say is like the key takeaway that you want people to get from your story?
Basically, I try to tell people, I have some college, no degree, and I didn't come from anything crazy. So basically, if I can do it, you can do it. Because as long as you just persevere and just don't let anybody tell you no and you just keep working at it, nothing can stop you in life.
As long as you just run with it. Just run with it. Now, you know, for Operation CEO, that's our show for our veterans. Can you tell me a little bit about your time with the military and just kind of, you know, this is one thing that I see a lot with our guys for Operation CEO is a lot of them talk to me about their transition back into the civilian world. So tell me a little bit about that.
Well, so I did eight years in the Navy, and then I did six years in the Texas Army National Guard. And, you know, in the military, everything is so structured. You don't really have to think about a lot of things. So when I got out, all of a sudden I have a wife and two kids, and then I had to figure everything out on my own. No one was telling me what to do and when to do it, so... It was kind of a shock just trying to figure life out after the military because I went in when I was 17. And after eight years, mom and dad isn't telling you what to do. The military isn't telling you what to do. And now you're just kind of left on your own. Do you figure it out? So that was that was the hardest part for me.
Do you find that it's kind of a period of self-discovery? Like, all right, I don't have any directions coming from above me. What would I tell me what to do? You know what I mean?
Yeah. I just really didn't know what to do. When I got out, well, I thought I had it all planned out. I worked on helicopters, so when I got out, I was like, well, I'm just going to work at Bell Helicopter. They're going to hire me. I know everything about helicopters, and I called them, and They asked me if I had a certain license. I didn't have it. So I called other helicopter places.
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