Hello and welcome to my Air Force Story. This fact-based document encompasses the humble beginnings of a poor college student and provides insight into how I am impacting the Air Force mission today. Along the way, you will read about the circumstances that led a young man to join the Air Force, the training received, a brief description of assignments, accomplishments, positions held, and how I will influence future leaders of the Air Force and its mission. Growing up I always wanted to fly airplanes, especially after visiting the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. After high school with an uncertain future but eager for an education, I began taking classes at a local technical college that specialized in college transfers. Specifically, a college transfer to Clemson University where I joined the ROTC program as a sophomore. After my sophomore year, I earned a two-year scholarship to attend Clemson full-time, followed by a trip to Lackland AFB for field training. As a junior, I earned a navigator training position, a flying billet that was an answer to my prayers. After completing my degree in Human Resources, I was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to casual status pending navigator training. As a casual lieutenant assigned to Warner Robins AFB I learned how the 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron trained, operated and deployed. While assigned to help the training chief, I gained valuable insights into how a training center operated, while taking basic flight and space course, initial navigator flight training, and completing my private pilot's license. After nine months of rudimentary work, I left for navigator training at Randolph AFB. During my initial navigator training at Ra...... middle of paper......B as a member of the 62nd Airlift Squadron I train all C-130 crew positions in low altitude visual flight, training , instrument flight rules, launch and landing procedures using NVGs, and various tactical techniques and procedures to facilitate the safe operation of the C-130 aircraft and its variants. When I got to the 62nd, I earned the position of student flight commander. Where I am responsible for training student navigators who want the same skills I once learned. Now I teach what I have learned and what others desire to become. With my guidance, in the short time I have with the students, I influence all major commands by teaching the employment of the C-130 air force and training future aviators to fly the Mighty Hercules. My impact goes beyond the squadron's objectives, but rather impacts the Air Force's ability to prosecute current and future wars. Uuuuuuuuu!