His Apache Was Hit Twice Over Jalalabad. He Went Back Up | Brad Young

Brad Young spent six years in the Air Force as a Korean linguist, including time at the National Security Agency in Hawaii, before an inter-service transfer put him in Army warrant officer flight school. He flew the AH-64D and then the AH-64E for just shy of 17 years across four combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and retired in 2025 out of 5-17 Air Cavalry in Korea. His unit at Fort Lewis was the first to receive and combat deploy the Echo model.

Brad's book "Full Blooded Apache: An Attack Pilot’s True Story of Family, Faith and the Fight" https://amzn.to/4hOLb1j

0:00 The most feared helicopter in the world

0:48 From Air Force linguist to Apache pilot

4:37 9/11, a schoolteacher, and four recruiters

8:58 The DLAB: learning a made-up language

11:25 Korean linguist at DLI and NSA Hawaii

13:16 How a Google Earth search ended in a kill cam

16:51 Crossing over to Army aviation

22:45 Army aviation paths and flight school

24:38 The dunker and stress inoculation

30:01 TH-67 primary and the airframe selection board