Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Buck Walker, 10 Percent True Episode 78 Part 2.

0:33 intro and welcome back Buck
2:11 weapon school genesis and selection
6:54 3 times through and a baby on board!
8:30 standing up the school
13:15 light grey snub comes full circle!
16:50 fighting institutional resistance in AFSOC
18:49 the value and the sanctity of the debrief
19:49 bilat story - AFSOC resistance continued
23:43 prefacing weapon effects videos and opening eyes on BDA
29:56 continuing the development story (FARP mission), regaining lost skills
32:41 a negative experience
34:01 a positive experience (Hind story)
38:18 decompression after the WIC, follow on assignments before returning as commander including some good bad and ugly
48:18 the slow clap 3 star - how does someone fail their way to the top?
51:47 AFSOC culture, question marks, continued tribalism?
56:24 working with spec-ops operators
59:13 “taking Tonopah”
1:02:23 protection from and integration of fast movers
1:06:36 dates
1:07:23 weapons officers deployed and first combat?
1:08:43 setting the stage
1:10:58 early days of combat
1:13:28 mission story - briefing on a post it note
1:22:38 taking stock and stopping counting
1:24:28 accepting the risk of descending below cloud and being shot at?
1:25:31 debriefing and decompression
1:31:48 feedback from “customers” (operators)
1:33:23 another mission story featuring close calls, pointed feedback and subsequent fallout
1:50:43 summarising the aftermath of the mission - and the greatest feedback
1:54:43 the investigative perspective?
1:58:23 need to be pragmatic in the face of AF “integrity”?
2:00:25 pre-visualisation vs “just send it”
2:03:03 trying to mitigate operator dismay at refusal to engage
2:06:20 other coalition partners - working with Brits?
2:08:27 liaison/exchange?
2:09:53 2nd DFC?