Episode 5: The 1A2 Show

All loadmaster.... and an EWO.In Episode 5 of the Death on Call podcast — "The 1A2 Show" — host reunites with two legendary retired AC-130U Spooky loadmasters: Master Sergeant (Ret.) Cade Cooper, a 4th SOS plankholder with 17 deployments, 5,000+ flying hours, and combat spanning the Balkans to Iraq (including one of the first U-model engagements in Kosovo), and Technical Sergeant (Ret.) Joshua Johnson, who cross-trained from dental technician to gunship loadmaster, logging 2,223 total hours (1,500 combat), 8 deployments, and 250+ combat missions. Over three raw, unfiltered hours, they share wild stories of early U-model days in condemned trailers, 36-hour endurance flights, floor-loading 40mm in combat (one night destroying 15% of ISIS black-market oil trucks), rogue gunship moments, shooting mosques used as fighting positions, near-misses with Russian fighters over Syria, throwing refrigerators out the ramp, pit-pack satellite dish attacks, dark humor pranks that sent psychologists running, the psychological toll of GWOT missions, and the unbreakable family bond forged in brass, blood, sweat, and beer — a legacy where you brutalize each other inside but defend the tribe against anyone outside. We also have potentially the funniest revelation of what the common access card reader is actually called.-- CONNECT WITH US --Listen/watch us on: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and PodbeanEmail: [email protected]