Christian Meyers
Christian Meyers is an 11 year veteran, performing as a Special Missions Aviator for Combat Search and Rescue with the US Air Force. During his time in the Air Force Christian accrued 3 combat deployments to Afghanistan, and East Africa twice. During this time, Christian performed over 140 Combat Missions including MEDEVAC, CSAR, SOF Integration, body and aircraft recoveries, and local humanitarian support. Outside of combat time, Christian has responded to nearly every major natural disaster or civil unrest event in the last decade; this includes Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, and Florence, CA wildfire MEDEVAC and Helicopter Firefighting, integrated operations with the DEA, CBP, FBI SWAT, among other agencies, and a litany of other training and stateside operational events. Overall, Christian retired with over 1600 flight hours and has rescued over 300 people, received 9 Air Medals, and achieved the final rank of Technical Sergeant (E-6).
Outside of his military career, Christian is very passionate about philanthropy and being active. During pursuit for all things exciting, he fell in love with Skydiving. Accruing well over 2,000 skydives, receiving multiple instructional ratings and a professional rating endorsement. Additionally, he has taken over 1,000 people on their first skydives, including over 100 veterans for free introductory skydives to help get them involved in new communities. Among his other interests and passions include BASE Jumping, , weight lifting, and snowboarding. Christian is currently the Chief Product officer at Terra Arma and Co-Hose of the MEDEVAC Podcast.
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