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So now I’m a veteran!
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I really didn’t know what it meant to be a veteran until I started to suffer the consequences of being one. The dictionary describes the word veteran coming from the Latin word veteranus, which means of long experience. Merriam-Webster describes a veteran as an old soldier of long service or a former member of the…
So what does a flight engineer do?
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I’ve always been fascinated with flight. Since very young I wanted to do something involving aircraft. One of my fondest memories as a child was watching Neil Armstrong step on the Moon. I was enamored by the technology. I was fascinated by the gauges, meters, dials and buttons. I was attracted to the idea of…