Wesley Sanders:
CLASS OF 1989
Dougherty High SchoolClass of 1989
Albany, GA
Jacksonville UniversityClass of 1993
Jacksonville, FL
Donna High SchoolClass of 1989
Donna, TX
Martin Luther King Junior High SchoolClass of 1985
Albany, GA
Lanakila Elementary SchoolClass of 1983
Honolulu, HI
Wesley's Story
After High School, it was off to Jacksonville University under an NROTC scholarship. I graduated and was commissioned in the Navy in 93. I was off to flight school and received my wings of gold as a NFO and reported to my first squadron.
Several cruises (why do they call 6 month deployments spent flying over adversarial country a cruise) later and I went to graduate school at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA (hardship tour, I know). I met my wife, Jill while in my first squadron and we were married while I was at NPS.
From there, we were off to Long Island, NY for several years working on the next version of the E-2C Hawkeye (plane I flew in). I was selected to serve 6 months during that tour, in Afghanistan...Expand for more
, which was an eye opening experience. Not certain why a fixed wing Naval Aviator was sent to an Army base in a land locked country, with nothing but helicopters, but hey...
We then went to Southern MD (Patuxent River NAS), for the next two years, where I learned quite a bit about designing and acquiring Naval Aviation platforms and such.
We left MD and moved to the DC area, where I started working on space related activities (I actually got a chance to use my Master's degree from Monterey, can you believe it?). We had our first child in Sept 2008 and it has been a life altering experience!
We are not sure what is next, but are excited to see what unfolds for us..... perhaps Japan for the next 3 years, we shall see.
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