The Afterburn Podcast Transcripts
John "Rain" Waters · 368 episodes with transcripts
Strap in the cockpit as we dive into the stories of the men and women who defend the freedoms we love. From the cockpit of military jets to boots on the ground. The Afterburn Podcast dives into their stories, the planes, and the missions.
Spoken has transcripts of 368 The Afterburn Podcast episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 27, 2026.
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Latest The Afterburn Podcast transcripts
"There I was..." with Brad
September 27, 2026
John "Rain" Waters (0:00)
Brad, thanks for hanging around for a There I Was story. Pretty straightforward, man. I know you probably got a few of them, so I'll just hand it over to you, give you the talking stick, and let you run with it.
Brad Young (0:10)
Yeah, so on one deployment, I kind of circumnavigated the area of operations that we were in, and on one mission, we ended up over on Regional Command West, which had been abandoned for a long period of time prior to us coming back in. And we were operating out of an installation that had once been occupied by the…
And they did not have a translator. So we had no way to communicate with the ground forces, except we had a position with a sat-com radio that we reported to. And they could glean information based off of the reports they were getting from both sides. And then minutes later, that information would come to us. So we…
John "Rain" Waters (4:36)
And you mentioned, yeah, you're getting...
So, language barrier, so not like direct comms. You probably, at the very beginning, have a pretty good essay of where people are, but that probably, I would imagine, quickly dissipates. And then you're saying the relay, you said minutes, right? And that, I would think, translates into years when you're trying to…
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