WEBVTT 00:07.280 --> 00:08.540 Okay printed your. 00:09.440 --> 00:12.480 No like london alleged strap and on it's a fighter and it really 00:12.480 --> 00:14.800 feels like to wear it. It's like a homesick angel. 00:16.340 --> 00:20.080 Uh when I was about seven years old my my dad was a an army Cobra 00:20.080 --> 00:23.160 pilot when turner show was flying in was unable to go because 00:23.160 --> 00:26.620 I was home sick of chicken pox somebody came back with a poster 00:26.620 --> 00:30.450 of a air national guard the 15 see uh. I thought it was a really 00:30.500 --> 00:33.170 beautiful machine and uh and I start to learn more about the 00:33.170 --> 00:37.130 history of a fighters and fighter pilots in a a suicide as time 00:37.130 --> 00:39.660 went on I decided that I wanted into the air force academy in 00:39.690 --> 00:40.540 and fly fighters. 00:41.250 --> 00:43.470 And it really became um my life. School. 00:46.330 --> 00:49.280 Sometimes the shortest this attitudes to points because I was 00:49.280 --> 00:49.870 a straight line. 00:51.400 --> 00:52.530 Yes up a lot of. 00:54.030 --> 00:56.940 As it would erase of in the air force academy but to after attending 00:56.940 --> 01:00.610 their under basic trance suffered the injury and had to a had 01:00.610 --> 01:01.080 to. Leave. 01:03.980 --> 01:07.260 So what was on austell corsin injection la and and going over 01:07.330 --> 01:12.050 a one of the uh those locals there uh I let them in the and ever 01:12.050 --> 01:14.900 made it a hip injury that i've had playing high school football 01:15.000 --> 01:18.900 Sabrina growth played a USB into a few weeks there in the hospital 01:19.010 --> 01:22.030 and the ultimately a they determine I wouldn't be able to complete 01:22.340 --> 01:25.760 they centring like last so rather than wait a year later to start 01:25.760 --> 01:28.670 over the academy a I like to be due to the universe in Memphis. 01:29.470 --> 01:30.990 I did not wanna give up on my. Dream. 01:35.200 --> 01:37.840 And with this pretty disconcerting down to leave the academy 01:37.840 --> 01:39.690 and and think that maybe I wouldn't be able achievement. 01:40.470 --> 01:43.470 Fighters of the time it very difficult uh to get a pilot for 01:43.470 --> 01:46.690 a allocation from awkward to see universe in Memphis haven't 01:46.690 --> 01:50.250 had in a in some seven years so that the chance of not even didn't 01:50.250 --> 01:54.540 to be a pilot much was funny a 15 um but to no once again the 01:54.540 --> 01:58.080 fortune smile on me in a was bless our class a five with the 01:58.080 --> 01:59.670 aid of us got pilot churning. Schwartz. 02:02.300 --> 02:05.160 My dad was there for Simon night and the he knew prime more than 02:05.160 --> 02:08.150 anybody in just how much it meant to me after 17 years working 02:08.150 --> 02:11.080 for this and muted pursuit of them through the death there uh 02:11.190 --> 02:13.920 the new with that meant to me in benefit in secret but called 02:14.020 --> 02:17.520 for a you use elated me actually rush the stage in and tackle 02:17.520 --> 02:20.760 me and what was probably more site about it that I was a so it 02:20.760 --> 02:22.200 was was really good that there for them. 02:24.470 --> 02:25.480 The dreams come true. 02:27.740 --> 02:30.810 So i've been for they've 22 for about nine years now in during 02:30.810 --> 02:34.690 that time of wise continuously with exception of what he or something 02:34.690 --> 02:38.710 very what for being with you that I have the mimi thinking of 02:38.710 --> 02:41.800 being the first act in the air force pilot that he felt that 02:41.800 --> 02:44.950 our uh the fluff of than that of with public individually that 02:45.020 --> 02:45.780 from really. 02:46.310 --> 02:49.570 Speech credit to not only lockheed is produced of a wonderful 02:49.570 --> 02:53.090 fighter but all the men women and maintain this fighter as well 02:53.090 --> 02:54.440 as our operations personnel. 02:55.220 --> 02:58.230 We're crew flight equipment are are aviation resource managers. 02:58.450 --> 03:01.440 Our intelligence professionals that insurer that I'm able to 03:01.440 --> 03:05.150 go out there and fly to safely and do that on a regular basis 03:05.150 --> 03:07.890 to stay come that mission ready to be prepared to provide are 03:07.890 --> 03:10.770 dominant so be it will accomplish of thousand hours spin. 03:10.770 --> 03:13.360 This will class fighter that you see behind me. It was was really 03:13.360 --> 03:13.730 an honor. 03:14.390 --> 03:17.150 You know often hunt packed in and and talk to seven-year-old 03:17.150 --> 03:20.830 me in and you know told him what was supposed ordered a day and 03:21.260 --> 03:25.130 um that us one of 22 leon. It's a what's that he has a didn't 03:25.130 --> 03:28.010 even exist and there were never would've imagined is a seven 03:28.010 --> 03:31.490 year old uh that I'd be a look a man of 22 squad or in a it's 03:31.490 --> 03:34.720 just not even something that I even dreamed of so it's so for 03:34.720 --> 03:38.520 me on a my dreams and hopes and expectations is a child uh that 03:38.520 --> 03:41.850 I think for one back and and and then showed seven-year-old me. 03:41.850 --> 03:44.500 If I were oh set today. I'd I'd probably be pretty shocked. 03:45.980 --> 03:49.890 This is not to smile soon revenge more for me this is a milestone 03:49.890 --> 03:53.180 food program and for the air force and just just really great 03:53.180 --> 03:53.850 thing for america..