My entire life, for as long as I can remember I have had a strong passion for the world of aviation and the concept of flight. Growing up I was the kid that would sit at the airports and watch planes come and go, and was also the kid that built and collected model airplanes. I was the typical aviation geek growing up. I grew up in a military family so this drew me more towards the military world of aviation and that’s always been the only route I want to go with my career. From my own experiences living in a military family and being surrounded by friends that were also in military families my whole life these military values and way of life has heavily influenced my way of life. I originally started off my official aviation career down in Florida at Florida Institute of Technology where i finished my private and commercial cross countries. I absolutely loved my time there and I truly do miss it. I am now at Ohio State because I made a choice to pursue my athletic career more heavily and an elite program such as Ohio State was better suited for that. Doing this has in a way put a pause, or slowed down my flight training progress because of transfer conflicts as well as large time requirements with athletics, but not to much to my worries for my future career.

My plans after graduation is to become a career long pilot in the US Navy or US Marine Corps. Doing this I am not required to go through all the flight training that commercial airline pilots need. I have already begun my testing progress to drop my officers package into the military and I expect to find out if I get accepted into military flight school by the end of this semester. I am not interested in the airline route at this time so i expect to be in the military immediately after graduation and spending as much time as I can flying around the world and serving our great country in the coolest aircraft this world has to offer.