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Comment by AH on December 14, 2009 at 11:03am

Donna, my son was doing re-quals too. What squadron is Sean in?

Comment by Growlermom711 on December 13, 2009 at 2:26pm

my son has lived in Oak Harbor-very nice town and near the base!

Comment by AH on December 9, 2009 at 11:22am

DJ - congratulations on Win's winging. I think that going into the Prowler platform is great. It is still a F18 just the G model and a different mission. Also much NEWER than most of the F18's currently flying out there. Mike is going out to the boat this week end for carrier workups. They have been doing workups at the base the past 2 weeks but have been short planes because of various problems making them not air worthy. Also- you will have an awesome place to visit when you go see him.

Comment by Julie on December 9, 2009 at 7:45am

Congrats DJ!! What an amazing accomplishment.

Comment by AH on December 7, 2009 at 11:11am

Mike has been with his squadron since March 2008. He will not deploy until sometime next year - late summer maybe. It all depends on what squadron he is assigned to and when their boat is deployed. That is for carrier based planes. His 2 roommates through training on the Super Hornets both deployed once their training was completed. One went to Japan for the GW and the other went to the Stennis. He was flown out to Guam (I think) to deploy with the boat.

Comment by Paymaster on December 5, 2009 at 8:04pm

Jane....Mine went twice to Iraq and was there 5 months each. He had one IA to Afghanistan and it was 9 months long. He fly's a SH-60

Comment by AH on December 4, 2009 at 2:48pm

When Mike was in primary, he had a bunch of bad luck with planes and even had a fire/smoke in the cockpit one time. The flight he was on was actually a training flight for emergency situations. He had been throwing one emergency after another at him. The smoke started coming into the back seat of the T-34 and Mike couldn't see it. The instructor had to tell him that he was being very truthful this time that there was smoke and that they had to trouble shoot something real instead of made up for the training. This being said, they do a bunch of training for emergency situations and what to do for the obvious reasons. Last week, Mike had a flame out of one of the engines in a Super Hornet. With all of the training that he had, he was able to go through what needed to be done and was able to take a trap on the runway at NAS Fallon. It was because of all the training that he was able to do everything right and make a safe landing. Most of the time, the problems are found prior to take off and are fixed.

Comment by AH on December 3, 2009 at 3:04pm

I think that there are quite a few of our aviators that have gone through the process. My son's was prior to signing up. When he was 14 years old, he broke his leg at the ankle and has 3 screws in it. Initially, the Navy told him that there was no way that they would allow someone with "hardware" into the military - let alone aviation. We live very close to regional airport that is used both by the Navy and Marines when flying into Denver. We actually live in the landing pattern and when we heard jets coming over the house, we went over to the airport. It was a couple of Marine F18's that flew in. Mike talked with the pilots and told them what the recruiter said. This is while he was in college. They encouraged him to explore it further and see if he could get a medical waiver. It took the last 2 years of college to do it, but he finally got his waiver in 2005. During OCS, he was told that his blood pressure was a bit high. They asked him if he was under any stress. His comment was that he had just met his DI for the first time just before going in for his physical. Yeah, he was stressed.

Comment by AH on December 2, 2009 at 7:28pm

Mike's last flight was before we got there. He told us that his wet down resulted in his life vest inflating. He had taken it off and put it on the wing but it fell off and got wet. It is good to know that it doesn't take a bunch of water to inflate these things but the supply office wasn't real happy. $$$$ you know. By the way, a couple of years ago, Mike told me that the Navy yell was HOOYAH but I have never heard anyone use it. OORAH is much better, but I'll never tell him that ;o)

Comment by AH on November 30, 2009 at 7:16pm

Speaking of pictures, once I get my pics downloaded from my trip last week, I'll post one of Mike standing next to the plane with his name on the side. It is currently being overhauled, but it does have his name on it.

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