Arthur Viveros:  

Hello everyone from the Class Of 1976! I hope everyone is doing well and has had a great life. My thoughts are with all the ones that have passed on already. Well here's what I've been doing all these years: After graduation, I went into the army and became an air traffic control tower operator at Forney Army Airfield, Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, for a couple of years as an enlisted person, i.e. private. During training for air traffic control school at Ft. Rucker, Alabama, I ran into fellow MHS classmate Art Grunow who was there for the same training. I also ran into MHS '75 classmate Kent Gurney who was a military policeman. Then in 1978, I went back to Ft. Rucker where I graduated from helicopter flight school with the rank of warrant officer. This is a special military rank that is between the enlisted ranks and commissioned officer ranks. I was sent to South Korea for a year where I flew a small helicopter called an OH-58 Kiowa (civilian Jet Ranger) as a scout in a cavalry unit that had AH-1 attack helicopters. From there I spent two years at Ft. Benning, Georgia, as a UH-1 Huey helicopter pilot carrying infantry soldiers, etc. around for training. In 1982, I got out of the army and went to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, where I graduated with a Professional Aeronautics degree. From there, I went to the University of Florida and graduated with a Crimin...Expand for more