Brad Sandona:  

CLASS OF 1989
Palatine, IL

Brad's Story

Life Well, if people have nothing better to do than click on my name, I suppose I can give them something to read. Life in one word - an odyssey! If I told of a fraction of it, you'd tell me to stop watching too much TV! World travel, barfights, flying gunships, business deals, war, scuba wreck diving, motorcycle accident, wine, women and song....and that was just in the past month! Okay, not quite in a month but all of it has happened at one point or another. In 2009, I decided to get married and have my first child in the course of a year (2nd came 2.5 years later) because I wasn't looney enough before (I am now!). Some things haven't changed - just caught the Motley Crue farewell tour over the summer. School Would I have done some things differently? Oh, sure, why not, if for no other reason to try a parallell universe here in The Matrix (uhm, that's a joke - don't go freakin out on me). College AA - Harper College (aka Harper High, University of Southern Palatine, et al). BS - Northeastern Illinois University (Finance). MBA - Illinois Institute of Technology. Workplace Paid for college delivering for Jakes Pizza in Palatine (now closed due to death of owner). Began with Motorola as a college senior and jumped from there to IBM, Verizon Wireless, Target, and United Airlines. I decided to say to hell...Expand for more
with corporate america in early 2008 and fly full time (just in time for a recession, of course). Dual rated pilot (helicopter and fixed wing). Spent some time flying for a living and decided poverty was for the birds so I went back to the corporate world, first to Bombardier/LearJet, then to Sears where I currently work. Military Enlisted October 1989 USAR into what was the 244th Theater Aviation Group, 3/158th Assault Helicopter Batallion at NAS Glenview, IL originally as a 93P Aviaiton Operations Specialist. Basic Training at Ft Leonard Wood, MO in 1990, split training in 1991 at Ft Rucker, AL. 244th transferred and reflagged as a brigade in 1995 at Ft Sheridan. Reclassed to 31U Signal Systems NCO around 1997/1998. Called up for OIF (Iraqi Freedom) February 2003 as a SSG and returned that autumn. Commissioned in October 2003. Went to flight school June 2004 at Ft Rucker, AL and finished January 2006. February 2006 to May 2006 did the AH-64A course at WAATS in Marana, AZ. Spent some years out of Ft Knox, Ky wih 8/229th before I decided to transfer to the Illinois National Guard (1-106th out of Peoria and Midway) and switch to UH-60 Blackhawks (I miss gunships at times). Promoted to Major but not sure I'll stick around for LTC (as I write this, it's been over 26 years - this stuff is for the young guys).
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