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Kegan "Smurf" Gill survived the fastest ejection in U.S. Naval aviation history, punching out of an F/A-18 Super Hornet at roughly 695 mph and 0.95 Mach, two seconds from hitting the Atlantic. In this No Way Out episode, Ponch Rivera and Mark "Moose" McGrath talk with the fighter pilot and author of Phoenix Revival about what came after the crash: traumatic brain injury, the VA system, prescription drug addiction, and the psychedelic assisted therapy and meditation that brought him back.

Listeners who discovered Kegan through the Shawn Ryan Show will find the deeper cut here. His story maps directly onto John Boyd's OODA loop: the reflexive ejection that reveals implicit guidance and control, the way institutional systems drive behavior and distort orientation, and the long work of reorientation after trauma. It is a conversation about fighter pilot resilience, veteran mental health, and decision making under uncertainty, built for business leaders, operators, and veterans alike.

Phoenix Revival: The Aftermath of Naval Aviation's Fastest Ejection

John R. Boyd's Conceptual Spiral was originally titled No Way Out. In his own words: 

“There is no way out unless we can eliminate the features just cited. Since we don’t know how to do this, we must continue the whirl of reorientation…”

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