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Final Memoir Narrative, or " read this at my funeral " 🙄 So it's done, these memoirs. I've processed this major end item off my brains' white board to-do list, and onto, paper. Ish. It was a fun journey, sometimes painful, always therapeutic. I skipped some things, on purpose, but the end result is, was, a subjective review of what the hell I spent three formidable decades doing, and when I have those memories, those smells and tastes, those sounds, remembrances, I validate them. Hell I treasure them good and bad. CW5, USA (Ret.) 68D10 Helicopter Powertrain, Prop & Rotor Repairman UH-1 Pilot OH-58A/A /C/CS MTP, MTFE OH-58D(I)(R) MTP, MTFE, IP, DES Designee Platform Instructor, Flight Leader, Track Chief UH-72A Pilot Aviation Tactical Operations Officer ASCC and FA Aviation Officer Aviation Sustainment Officer Project Officer PO Government Flight Representative GFR Contracting Officers' Representative COR Operations Officer Army Space Cadre Graduate Over his distinguished 30-year, 3-month, and 12-day Army career, Chief Warrant Officer Five John W. MacDonald rose from an 18-year-old private E-1 with a simple dream of flying helicopters, to one of the Army’s most accomplished Aviation Leaders. That's what she, said. From the moment he enlisted, CW5 Johnny Mac - MacDonald pursued his boyhood passion with unwavering dedication, earning his wings and building a legacy defined by exceptional meritorious service, technical mastery, and selfless leadership across multiple continents and operational theaters. His career spanned a myriad of demanding positions of leadership, technical expertise, and tactical accomplishment with multiple Combat Tours and multiple, extensive, overseas assignments. He collaborated effectively with sister-services, Department of Defense agencies, federal, state, and local governmental organizations. His Army service included key roles on the ASCC staff before culminating as the 4th Infantry Division Aviation Operations Officer in the 4th Infantry Division. Qualified in four aircraft with over 3,000 flight hours he amassed an extraordinary breadth of technical qualifications. His significant leadership positions included Aviation Maintenance Detachment Commander for deployments to Operation Desert Thunder, 1996, at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait; Stabilization Force SFOR-10, 2001, at Camp Comanche, Bosnia, in support of the 29th Infantry Division (Light); Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn, 2003–2004, in Baghdad, Al Kut, and Al Najaf, Iraq; as well as Flight Leader, Platoon Leader, Company Commander, and Staff Officer at both the ASCC, USAREUR Heidelberg, and Field Army, 8th Army, levels at Yongsan, Korea. As a technical expert without peer, CW5 Johnny Mac-MacDonald served as an Aviation Project Officer, Contracting Officers' Representative, Government Flight Representative, Production Control Officer, Quality Control Officer, Flight Commander, Test Pilot and Test Flight Evaluator, Instructor Pilot, Track Chief, and Army Director of Evaluation and Standardization Designee for the OH-58D helicopter. Among his major technical accomplishments were coordinating and executing the divestiture of 6th Cavalry Brigade’s OH-58C helicopter assets at Fort Hood, Texas; the divesture of UH-1V and fielding of UH-72A MEDEVAC at Fort Polk, Louisiana; the fielding of OH-58D aircraft to 6-17th Cavalry in Alaska; final divestiture of JMRC’s UH-1H helicopter assets in Hohenfels, Germany; the foreign military sale of the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade’s CH-47D helicopter fleet to the Republic of Korea; and the successful fielding of the CH-47F model fleet to both the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade at Ansbach-Katterbach, Germany, and the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade at Camp Humphreys, Korea. After more than three decades of exemplary service that began with a teenager’s dream of flight, Chief Warrant Officer Five John W. MacDonald retired from active duty at Fort Carson, Colorado, on a date reflecting precisely 30 years, 3 months, and 12 days of faithful service. His career stands as a testament to the power of perseverance, technical excellence, and quiet leadership—embodying the very best of the United States Army Aviation community.

Continuing my story. 2010 Chief Warrant Officer Five, CW5 5th Aviation Battalion, JRTC and Fort Polk Fort Polk, Louisiana 71459 #FortPolk - #Heidelberg 🇩🇪 Battalion Aviation Maintenance Officer OH-58C MTP, MTFE UH-72A Pilot In Command Government flight representative Contracting officer representative Contract field team project officer And then, I shot myself, in the foot. Rephrase. To fly, or not, to fly. “Slightly left, of course, and holding, turn right 5°” Looking back as I write these memoirs, I could’ve pursued the UH-72 Flight Detachment Commander with the USMA United States Military Academy. Or perhaps I could’ve done another flight year at Fort Polk, while working this out. “Still slightly left of course and holding, turn right now 10°” I might have, flown out the rest of my career in some fashion and made a transition into civilian rotary wing opportunities, such as Flight for Life, Care Flight or offshore oil and gas, or contracts around the world. “Slightly left of course, and correcting” As I recall I elected to leave on a next assignment, without delay, because there was another CW5 at Fort Polk, Claire Campbell, my peer, my also freshly promoted cohort albeit UH-60s, well, we would’ve been redundant. And I had Germany on my mind. WO1 and CW5, yes please, let’s do that. “On course now, maintain heading 085° on course,” Multiple discussion(s) with my manager at Human Resources Command, HRC, over the winter, regarding Germany. Louisiana winter, not, German winter. CW5 slotting was in the Tactical Operations section of G3 Air, at Campbell Barracks, formerly known as Großdeutschland Kaserne, in Heidelberg, Germany. 🇩🇪 USAREUR United States Army, Europe, was a Lieutenant Generals’, three star billet, so I was headed to General Officer Staff. We lined up the Tactical Operations course. I was about to bid farewell to my roughly eighth year, of back and forth operations and assignments, at Fort Polk, and in hindsight, I just flew my last flight in the #Army, at KPOE. Now I have to ride in the back of Gary Seniors’ UC-35, Cessna Citation 560 series, jet. General Officers’ staff, and all. 3,258.3 Hours 410.6 Combat 222.9 Imminent Danger Zip code 71459. Send it to zoom. “On course, heading is 085° begin descent”

Continuing my Story. May 13th, 2008 - May 12th, 2009 CW4(P) Battalion Aviation Maintenance Officer OH-58C MTP, MTFE 5th Aviation Battalion, (P) FORSCOM #FortPolk, Louisiana 71459 Before I reminisce too far beyond the "summer of the CW5 promotion list," I feel like a game of Connect-Four is in order. As you recall, my graduating class from Warrant Officer Initial Entry Rotary Wing (IERW) Flight Training (WOFT) was the summer of 1989, twenty years earlier. You feel me. Twenty, years, prior. Who else from my class, rode those, waves. I looked up synonyms for resolute, but in reality, we did it because we loved it. And so I think this is what it takes, argh, Matey. a. 100 % Grooming b. 20 % Good fortune c. 100 % Loving, what you do d. 90 % Good, at what you do e. 80 % Support from cohorts and Command f. 50 % Pirate talk g. 10 % Self depreciating sense of humor That's 450 % of stuff. Maths. 3 of 15 (20%) of the guys from my IERW UH-1 track, on the list. 2 of 9 (22%) of us from my IERW OH-58 track. And Todd, Look-at-Me, Larson from my first and #Aircav assignment with 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry, 3rd Armored Division, Büdingen, Armstrong Barracks, West Germany #GarryOwen I still remember my home address, by memory, from that assignment. I do not, however, remember what happened during my first Fasching Carnival, only that I was on an Army float mid-morning in #Büdingen, the locals threw some shots up to us, and I woke up on the sidewalk of the steep cobblestone hill going up to my house. Ask Brad's wife, she found me. But I digress.

Continuing my Story. March 2005 - May 2007 CW4, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 223rd Aviation Regiment, 110th Aviation Brigade Fort Rucker, Alabama This phase of the memoirs, of my story, is when it gets boring - as in hard to write. Technical. Stale. Routine. Sedentary. Perhaps the correct word, alludes me. I was shaped into a proficient multi-tool. Groomed and developed out of field necessity, To take this assignment as a school-house instructor, to think I would excel and be content - only half of that statement was true. I always, excelled. I was not, content. And to make matters worse, I was not a good golfer. Working 9 to 5 was never, would never, be fulfilling, and I would always try to catch that adrenaline soaked dream again. So I used this period of time to earn my Bachelor of Science in Professional Aeronautics (BPSA) from Embry Riddle Aeronautical, satellite campus. I received my degree in March of 2007. That's what my degree, says. I like the word, satellite. This is the narrative I asked Grok to help me with. It's in the third party. Pretend it's my funeral. CW4 Four JW MacDonald endured an assignment at Fort Rucker, Alabama that he largely tolerated rather than enjoyed. After completing the OH-58D Instructor Pilot Course and the resident Total Army Instructor Training Course, he served as the Flight Leader / Track Chief for the OH-58D(R) Helicopter Maintenance Test Pilot Course, and as a Directorate of Evaluation and Standards (DES) designee. He supervised and conducted 160 hours of flight instruction and 240 hours of ground instruction. For the Record, this time is logged as Instructor Pilot time, not maintenance, not maintenance evaluator. He amended, edited, and was published, the OH-58D(R) Maintenance Test Flight Manual and the Aircrew Training Manual for maintenance, with additional experience based input. He developed the course Program of Instruction that allowed technical warrant officers to attend the academic and flight orientation phases of said, course. Training days were half-spent in a classroom static environment with cut-open aircraft components discussing valves and ports and pressures, materiel and design, temperatures, schematics, switchology, power, protection, and connecting the dots between what we do in the cockpit and what aircraft and components are responding with. The other half day was spent on the flight line dynamic environment conducting ground runs and flights, visualizing the components and systems, we just fondled. He received two Officer Evaluation Reports during this tour, both of which were rated Above Center of Mass and recommended his promotion below the zone to Chief Warrant Officer Five. In addition to becoming a redundant cog in the machine, while at Fort Rucker, he conducted two military and two civilian maintenance test pilot evaluations which ensured continued support to aircraft maintenance requirements at Fort Rucker. Towards the latter part of this assignment, he was sent TDY (Temporary Duty) to Fort Wainwright, Alaska, where he conducted a maintenance test pilot’s annual proficiency and readiness evaluation and three maintenance initial validations. That squadron had moved, was moving, from Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, to Fort Wainwright, Alaska starting May 2006, as part of Army Aviation restructuring. .. 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment. Fort Wainwright, Alaska. .. Sniff, Sniff. Do you smell, what I, smell. #Aircav And bold move, Cotton - Hawaii to Alaska. As if the Magic Eight Ball said: It is certain It is decidedly so Without a doubt Yes, definitely You may rely on it As I see it, yes Most likely Outlook good Yes Signs point to yes I used that TDY to unofficially interview with the 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Commander Lieutenant Colonel Nick Snelson. Nick was an enormous - ginormous, man with shiny black boots. Daddy's, new, home. The Executive Officer of 6/17th Cavalry was Major David Barber. The same then Lieutenant Barber that I befriended on the flight line of Camp Comanche, Bosnia in Command of the Air Traffic Controllers. The Squadron Standardization Pilot (SIP) was CW4 Tim Mayhak. The same Tim, the albino CW2, from 1988 and my Warrant Officer Entry Course. The, infiltrator. The spy. Tim and I would later occupy this coveted, large, (ginormous) over-the-flight-line windowed office, desks side by side of each other, one with "SIP" and one with "MTFE" placards, and our Junior Warrants dug that shit up. Lieutenant Colonel Chris Carlile, my Battalion Commander at Fort Rucker, gave me my two, immaculate, Officer Evaluations. He would later become the Commander of CCAD - Corpus Christi Army Depot. He would even later, hire me in the civilian world and send me to Kuwait, Army Prepositioned Stockage Five (APS5), because I simply had not been to Kuwait enough. I left Fort Rucker with 2,773.2 hours, updated combat time of 410.6 hours, and imminent danger time of 222.9. I left #FortRucker, I'm going to #FortWainwright now. Goodbye.

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Continuing my Story. Summer, Fall 2004 CW4, Stetson Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Fort Polk, Louisiana OH-58D MTP/MTFE Squadron Quality Control Officer (QC) We closed back at Fort Polk. We had a lot of, cleaning, to do. In every sense of the word. I didn't go to Production Control, instead, assumed duties as the Squadron's QC Officer for our twenty-four little birds and our 8 UH-60L. It was more aligned with my OH-58D MTP/MTFE skill set and subject matter expertise. As far as the receipt book, well, I was still being groomed in my evaluations, but what I really want to revisit is the flight time now. 2,532.0 total hours. 312.0 Combat hours. 167.5 Imminent Danger hours. I've now doubled my OH-58C hours with 1,224.2 OH-58D, 293.2 MTP and 84.6 MTFE. 84.6, MTFE. That's not insignificant and was noticed. Let's let that pan out. You're welcome. JK ego still intact. ✅

Continuing my Story. 2004 CW4, 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry OH-58D MTP/MTFE #AlHillah, #CampDoha, #ShannonIreland, #Alexandria Louisiana, #FortPolk Louisiana "Fifteen months" The world I lived in for the last year and three months can never be reproduced. Those daily challenges, the bonds we forged, the constant adrenaline, the images that still burn behind my eyes — they rise up when I least expect them. Fifteen months of this dust that never leaves your lungs, of helicopters that have flown enough hours to wear the rotors thin. You have been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in excess of 15 months. The last time a United States Army Unit was deployed in a combat zone for more than a year was over 50 years ago, during the Korean War. Certificate from Dick Beckinger. In 2009, he served as Commander of the 1st Aviation Brigade at Fort Rucker, Alabama, Col. Richard M. Beckinger. I ran into Dick in Huntsville, Alabama later in our life, in a Home Depot parking lot. I don't make this stuff up. We did a hug and went our separate ways. Pictured is, again, the port in Kuwait with a guy assigned there for transportation operations. From Kansas City. Police officer. Can't remember his name. Liked our headgear.

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Continuing my Story. Summer 2003 Redcatcher, Baghdad, Iraq CW4, 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment OH-58D MTP/MTFE I'm now a Squadron asset, assigned to Nomad Troop. I have 2,288.4 hours, of which 980.6 is in the OH-58D. 212.1 hours MTP, 71.0 hours MTFE

Continuing my Story. #SFOR10 Stabilization Force Mission, Bosnia-Herzgovenia #FortPolk, Louisiana #OperationIraqiFreedom (OIF) OIFI, and OIF II Early 2003 CW3(P) Troop Line and Maintenance Test Pilot Nomad Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment OH-58D MTP, MTFE Lets' eat this elephant one-piece-at-a-time. Let's first acknowledge that whoever is in the Mission Planning Cell(s), or on the Logistics Coordination Team(s) for any tactical unit, sitting/standing at/on a desk with a phone in each hand, and on the computer or in the meetings and eating donuts and drinking coffee or smoking cigarettes and keeping the lights on all night doing said coordination, is just as critical as any other forward facing, front line lethal entity. They coordinated for shipping vessel(s), defined the Port locations, reserved the transient spaces for aircraft parking/holding, scheduled the flatbed rail cars, the right number of them, the on and off loading locations, the commercial air reservations, the number of seats, the Customs clearance, transportation to and from each of these locations for Soldier movement, the required number of seats, the safety operations, equipment posturing .. Surface-scratching here. Thank you, Planners V/r, Executor I'm going to snapshot our way back to the Desert - we had a large railhead on Fort Polk. We loaded equipment by rail from Fort Polk to Beaumont, Texas and flew our aircraft to staging fields outside the Port of Beaumont. Vessels loaded fairly quickly, but long hours - time is money in that industry. Our unit moved via Alexandria International Airport, LA (AEX) on Commercial Air, through Shannon, Ireland, to Kuwait. I'm in the #Army and this is the third of four times I will have been to, Kuwait. One might say I'm even a resident, of Kuwait. But that's another story.

Continuing my Story. CW3(P) OH-58A/A /C/CS MTP, MTFE OH-58D(I)/(R) MTP, MTFE We redeployed back to Fort Polk, Louisiana from Bosnia-Herzgovenia in April 2002, I was assigned to an #aircav line troop N, 4/2 ACR, then selected over the summer for promotion to CW4, counter drug operations JTF-6, fall came and I executed a JRTC Rotation 02-09, attended the Air Assault school and received that badge, flew 180 hours, 50 MTP, four no-notice evaluations, six annual evaluations, three MTP progressions, shot two Squadron gunneries Q1 tables VII, VIII, X and XII, shot M9 pistol expert, scored 286 on the APFT (Army Physical Fitness Test, 300 is max). I just read the Officer Evaluation Report for that year. Lot's of gun, things. The Squadron Commander is now Lieutenant Colonel Richard Beckinger at the helm, reporting for duty. He preferred to be called Dick, fact. Great guy. Very, eccentric. Very, smart. He could easily be drawn as a cartoon character, but I think he knew that. He knew, more than you think. I have his unconditional trust. We're going to deploy to Iraq soon.

Continuing my Story. Fall of 2002 #AirAssault CW3(P) N Troop Nomads, 4th Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment #FortPolk, Louisiana Polk Army Airfield OH-58A/A /C/CS MTP, MTFE OH-58D(I)/(R) MTP, MTFE It was shaping up to be a busy-busy year back on the line at nomad Troop. Challenge, accepted. I went to the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) and Resident Fort Polk, Air Assault Course. I don't know why, he swallowed the fly but he didn't die.

Continuing my Story.. April 2002 CW3 Transitionally Delta Company, 2nd Battalion 224th Aviation (Virginia) #CampComanche, Bosnia-Herzgovenia The six - six and a half months at Comanche Base was equally fun and rewarding. With minimal distractions to mission accomplishment, a fantastic chow hall (I love chow halls what does that make me) I enjoyed staying busy and involved. Before load-out to Bosnia I purchased a new 4-wheeler in Pineville, Louisiana, not too big maybe 450cc, and the maintenance shops outfitted it with a tow bar pintle hook and some racks. It made it onto our MILVAN, through customs, and became one of our pieces of support equipment. The advance party recon informed the flight line was linear (long) so it came in handy to both shuttle pilot gear and maintenance support gear, and tow aircraft ramp to hanger or v. versa. The Air Traffic Control Tower OIC, a Lieutenant David Barber who was also an OH-58D guy, well he took his time warming up to the idea this thing was going up and down, his, flight line. I get it. But he warmed up, we became friends and developed the safety procedures to deconflict. We would run into each other later in career in 6/17th Cavalry, Fort Wainwright, Alaska and as he too went up the ranks. Funny story. When this machine needed its first refuel, I put on my gregarious cap and drove it to the fuel pumps at the ground vehicle support area, like I owned the place. I used that approach often with smile attached. First name, weather, how's your mom approach. The Bosnians scratched their head like man, wth. But they warmed up to me, put a decal sticker with their reference number on the bumper and started treating it like base equipment. Totally awesome deal when people get along. They even changed the oil on it. I left it there when we departed - our replacement unit bought it and so, passed forward. I still wonder where it is today - I hope some local kid got to tear it up. We had a three ship UH-60 detachment from Fort Bragg, North Carolina based in Sarajevo and I made some infrequent trips to their hanger to visit them. I remember only his first name, mustache Rich, their MTP, he was good people. Most of their support requirement was only repair parts - a generator here, a hydraulic pump there. His contract team would do the work. I was in Sarajevo at their hanger over Thanksgiving and was invited into town to an apartment for dinner with a lead contract mechanic, Cline, and Cline's girlfriend. That was pretty cool they were, are, such good people. So it was Camp Comanche, Sarajevo, or in the air. I didn't really get over to Tuzla much, the main base where 29th Infantry Division (29th ID) Virginia Army National Guard headquarters was based (Task Force Eagle). Our Camp Comanche garrison had brown billeting like a New England Summer Camp, gravel walkways, a main post area with education and medical facilities, post office, just think M.A.S.H. and you've almost got it. I still feel the nostalgia of being in the Balkans with a great team. I finished that deployment with a great evaluation while passing two milestones. One was the 2,000 flight hour mark, and the other was that I now have slightly more OH-58D time (679.6), than OH-58C time (691.8). 167.5 hours in Imminent Danger, 166.4 as an OH-58D MTP, and 44.1 as an OH-58D MTFE.

Continuing my Story.. 2000 H Company, 159th Aviation Regiment AVIM #FortPolk, Louisiana CW3 OH-58D(I) MTP/MTFE In 1999 H Company, 159th Aviation Regiment and 4th Squadron 2ACR received a FORSCOM ARMS - (U.S. Forces Command Aviation Resource Management Survey). A visit, a walk about, a little looksie of our Command Programs by the most senior Army Aviation folks across Army Aviation directed to execute the evaluation and to make sure we applied, and met, aviation maintenance and performance standards. These visits were broadcast well in advance and carried some pressure because reputation, safety, and standards were on the line - to fail had longstanding repercussion and rectification actions and to pass, was expected. And it wasn't just Programs - individual Aviators and Crew Members were subject to written tests or flight evaluations both with advance notice, and, no-notice. One of the fun tests was a "5 and 9" closed book written evaluation, which tested your ability to have memorized Operating Limits and Restrictions and Emergency Procedures which applied to the aircraft you flew. I love love these chapters, I'm sick that way. As the Quality Control Officer, I spent a minute buried in maintenance logs, 2408s, historical records, weight and balance files, ALSE inspections, Night Vision Goggle records, making sure every aircraft, calibrated tool, and technical publication was good to go before the FORSCOM team arrived. I was always comprehensive, but this was a bit more thorough. The entire company went under the microscope as the inspectors evaluated our shops, our safety program, parts supply accountability, night vision goggle records, overall readiness posture, and so much more. It was one of those high-stress periods in that we knew we were good, but we wanted to have it documented. My Quality Control (QC) shop received a Commendable rating, and I was then subjected to an OH-58D maintenance flight evaluation by the Directorate of Evaluation Standardization (DES) in Maintenance guru, Phil Dana. The same type of flight you had taken to graduate the MTP course at Fort Rucker, but hopefully very-proficient now. Having been a field MTFE in the OH-58A/C I knew what was expected and, discouraged. The outcome of that flight was John = still awesome, and will be evaluated further for duties as an OH-58DI maintenance test flight evaluator himself and join the A-Team later. I say all that, to say this- 28 April 2000, I added to my indeed.com resume and joined the A-Team. Thanks Phil, thanks Wayne.

Continuing my Story.. 1999 Assigned to: H Company, 159th Aviation AVIM Under the: Regimental Support Squadron "Muleskinners" of 2nd Cavalry "2nd Dragoons" Adjacent to the: 4th Squadron "Winged Dragoons" of 2nd Cavalry "2nd Dragoons" "Toujours Prêt" "Remember your Regiment and follow your officers" #FortPolk, Louisiana CW3, OH-58A/A /C MTP, MTFE OH-58DI/DR MTP HHQ Platoon Leader Quality Control Officer/Publications Officer Company Safety Officer And now I added Squadron (Regimental Support Squadron, aka RSS) Safety Officer to my indeed.com resume How dare they - the Safety Officer thing - in the "real" Warrant Officer Aviation community the Aviation Safety Officer is school trained and tracked as such. But if you're called a "Company/Squadron" Safety Officer sans Aviation Safety, and in an RSS, then all you need is Alamo ! 🤡 My Commander Major Ralph Roome and I, we had a number of conversations about this - he was a super great guy and our philosophical discussions went far behind entertaining. I think we both acknowledged we were in a bit of a purgatory regarding our Aviation careers and made the best of it. We played the games and sang the songs and danced the dances. But truth be told, I was also in fact doing upper level maintenance procedures and test-flying aircraft work ordered over to our hanger, track and balance to smooth out the systems after replacing main blades and it could be a time consuming affair, weighing aircraft and pushing out new weight and balance and center of gravity books; any work I could pick up to offload the 2nd Armored Cavalry, 4th Squadrons, Stetson Troop Workload. Stetson Troop is the 4th Squadron's unit - level maintenance troop. You know what I just realized? I'm now hot tub time machine *back at Fort Bragg North Carolina, 1985 - 1988 (517th Transportation Company, AVIM) doing Intermediate Level (AVIM) aviation maintenance but from the Test Pilot perspective. That, is the circle of life. Cool.

Continuing my Story.. #motherrucker #fortrucker October - December 1996 CW2(P) OH58 A/A /C MTP/MTFE October started the first of three back-to-back schools as soon as I got stateside and signed in, to Fort Rucker, Alabama. The last time I was here, 1989, I had pinned on WO1 and headed to 🇩🇪 Germany. I graduated AQC qualification course the first week of December in the OH58D Kiowa Warrior putting another 50.1 hours on the books, so now at 1,345.6 hours. I don’t have any newsworthy stories from that course - just the receipts. The OH58D Maintenance Test Pilot Course would start at #Knox AHP after the Christmas and New-Year holiday, break. How’s that for comma, use.

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