EP171: How To Properly Brag About the World's Fastest Plane and Losing My Mentor, Finding Peace

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 Plane10:00 - Losing My Mentor, Finding Peace Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.