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EP171: How To Properly Brag About the World's Fastest Plane and Losing My Mentor, Finding Peace
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On this episode of Our American Stories, SR-71 Blackbird pilot, Bryan Shall, explains how much fun you can have when you're the fastest plane in the sky. LCpl. Tom Morton tells the story of Sgt. Joe L. Wrightsman not only being his mentor and squad leader, but also a hero of the highest caliber who died trying to save an Afghani police officer from drowning in the Helmand River.
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Time Codes:
00:00 - How To Properly Brag About the World's Fastest Plane
10:00 - Losing My Mentor, Finding Peace
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2242 episodes
Manage episode 318156210 series 2943947
On this episode of Our American Stories, SR-71 Blackbird pilot, Bryan Shall, explains how much fun you can have when you're the fastest plane in the sky. LCpl. Tom Morton tells the story of Sgt. Joe L. Wrightsman not only being his mentor and squad leader, but also a hero of the highest caliber who died trying to save an Afghani police officer from drowning in the Helmand River.
Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)
Time Codes:
00:00 - How To Properly Brag About the World's Fastest Plane
10:00 - Losing My Mentor, Finding Peace
Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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