Air Force

Crane Indiana's in the middle of freaking nowhere and it's also known for its naval readiness in general right there you have C program and I've heard I don't know if this is true or comports with your understanding but that there's some coordination between crane and and right Patterson Air Force base.

That's a very interesting contract with some history and that area and I've also friends with actually Navy special warfare guy and it'll say some pretty interesting stuff to me he'll say like the Air Force guys those guys talk.

the side of a mountain. And it's the dead of winter in there. Some Air Force officers present.

and our nuclear capabilities. And it frequently coordinates with right Patterson Air Force Base

I'm not supposed to let this plane land. It's Usaf air United States Air Force

One or two. Okay, so this is several years before you leave the Air Force

Right, right, right? Okay, yeah, because I left the Air Force in 2007

career in the Air Force

Served as Com sick operator on three highly sensitive secret to the Air Force level special projects missions

significantly in the units readiness posture and then it says it does give the address for Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada

And if you flip it over you can see again. This is from Nellis Air Force Base my job there and again the dates in the date

Maybe it's Air Force Office special investigations like I'm talking to them just super openly. I don't care

Now at the the top level whether you're talking about a secretary or director of an agency or the Air Force the Army whatever

I sat down with Mario Woods, a former US Air Force security responder.

In 1977, he was stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.

I served in the Air Force from 1975 to 1983.

And you were stationed at Ellsworth Air Force Base?

And about one-third are assigned to aircraft back at the main support base of Ellsworth, the actual Air Force Base.

Okay. So in Ellsworth Air Force Base, 1977, you have a partner that you're working with.

I was a counterintelligence officer for the Air Force office special investigation

Dodie was an Air Force counterintelligence agent basically tasked with performing a psychological operation

On an innocent researcher named Paul Benowitz who had seen an exotic craft at Curtlyn Air Force Base

Air Force glasses on

You know that um the Air Force uh paid for this movie called Stargate have you ever seen this movie Stargate? Absolutely

And before joining elsewhere with Air Force Base what was what was kind of your motivation? Why'd you get into this?

the credibility of our primary interviewee, Jake Barber. Fred is a legend in the US Air Force

Combat Control and Special Operations Community. He served with distinction in the US Air Force's

24th Special Tactics Squadron, that's the 24th STS, which is like the US Air Force Special Forces.

It's one of the elite Tier 1 units in the US Air Force Special Operations. He retired as a master

allowed to tell me? What's the story of your service? I joined in 2000 in the United States Air Force.

operator? I was not. I was stricken in the Air Force although where I was, we worked quite often

the US Air Force unit you're talking about. But essentially it was a top special operations unit

in the US Air Force. Correct. I understand also your family has quite an illustrious history in