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Personal Introduction

Aviation started pretty late in my life. Growing up, my family and I would rarely fly due to the fact my parents thought car rides would give us more time together due to all of our busy schedules. Around junior year in high school, my parents asked me the question 'What do you want to do with the rest of your life?' I haven't even gave it a thought. During the time, I was helping out our neighbor who is a farmer. We were feeding his hundred of cows covered in mud to my knees. Overhead I heard the roar of an aircraft ripping across the sky in the summer heat, and for some reason that was when I knew what pathway I wanted to take.

Currently, I am a Aviation Flight Technology senior, but lacking on the flight end which really isn't bug me too much. Working towards building my flight hours, I am also working on getting my dispatch license, which will help get me a job and pay for those flight hours!

While I will be finished on the school side of things, I will still need to work towards flight hours and ratings. Recently, Ive been looking on taking the military route either full time or doing reserve. The benefits are really good, and personally I feel as if it will help me as a person mentally and physically. Not sure which branch I would like to go in, but hopefully it would be flying aircraft, specifically heavy planes such as the C-130. After that I hope to land a job in the cargo industry such as Fed Ex or UPS. Also interested working for a smaller corporate company such as MASCO.

It would be nice to have a guest speaker from the services aviation specific. Im interested in the length of time served, what it takes, and the benefits from it. Also i'm really into space related subjects such as SpaceX and ect. If we could add or remove topics, I want to know more about the cargo industry and different types of cargo businesses. Another interesting topic would be ATC, and how you would be able to get linked with a job in that aviation field.

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