Originally Posted by
Davef68
Knew of a USN pilot (OK, Aviator) who enlisted in the local National Guard as an NCO when he retired, then was deployed to Iraq during GW2. He reckoned he must have been the only enlisted man in the US Army wearing gold wings.
if it's the guy I'm thinking of he was a ring knocker from Annapolis - enteeed the TBS then Pensacola and graduated as a Flying Leatherneck backseater in the Phantom.
When the corps retired the rhino he went into civvy life still in aviation got his A & P license and worked on multi engine Beechcraft entered the National Guard albeit in a signals or stuff and rose to SNcO
How do I know all this? He sent his cv in and asked for a job at my former Part 145 MRO back in 04 a year after GW2
Cheers