A Navy Life – Years

Retirement photo from late 1999. 10 years active duty, 15 years reserve, 1200+ hours in about 10 naval aircraft, the vast majority (1000 hrs) in Tomcats. 200 traps. My dad retired from the Navy when I was 18, so adding in my own 25 years, 43 years of my life have been in and around the Navy community. Add in another 10 years of working for the Navy as a civilian government dude and 53 of my 59 years has been blue and gold. That, my friends, is a navy life