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I've been flying since I was 13 years 

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old but in the military I've been 

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flying since 2003 . So my 

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initial I guess love for aviation 

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started uh growing up I grew up in 

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Alaska and was just surrounded by 

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aviation of all types for me it 

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was just a different view I guess of 

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the world um you know kind of looking 

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down on everything different uh you 

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know a different aspect , different 

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perspective . That was what initially 

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really I think going into it other than 

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the fact that flying has always just 

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been you know , very fun to me . Um and 

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then military flying , you know just 

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there's no higher performance level of 

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flying than what you're going to get in 

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the military and and so um you know it 

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was more of a challenge . You get to 

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fly higher performance aircraft . You 

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know you get to really push yourself as 

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opposed to you know just kind of flying 

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around straight and level . So I 

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actually started here in Yuma in 2006 

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as part of the MA 311 Harrier Squadron 

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And I flew with them for three years . 

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I did two deployments , wanted Japan 1 

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to Iraq and then I left and I went to 

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the east coast where I flew with Marine 

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Attack Training Squadron 203 . I was an 

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instructor out there and then I flew 

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with Marine Attack Squadron 5 42 and 

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then I came back to Yuma um and flew 

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with this one . I did a tour there for 

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three years . I was with the station 

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for about three years . I flew the C12 

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up until about two months ago And then 

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I went over to the MX1 , which is where 

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I'll retire . Mm hmm . 

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Mhm 

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Thank 

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you . So there's so many memories of , 

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you know , flying over my career . The 

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fondest memories I have are always the 

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flights coming back from a deployment , 

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having your friends and your family 

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there to welcome you and just , you 

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know , being back home after you've 

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been gone for so long . It's um , it's 

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kind of a , I want to say like a tidal 

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wave of emotions , but it's like a 

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whole bunch of emotions thrown in 

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together . There's nothing like having , 

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you know , your friends or your family 

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waiting there on the flight line for 

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you when you get out of the airplane 

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and and walk back up to the hangar . Um , 

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you know , that , that part of , you 

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know , that part of your career is over 

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there might be another one in the 

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future , but that one's done . You need 

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to put that one behind you . You get to 

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go spend some , you know , some quality 

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time with friends and family