Richard Schultz:  

Life After Graduation I joined the Navy as a Aviation Structural Mechanic.Which is responsible for the maintenance of aircraft fuselages,wings,empennage,flight control systems,landing gear,arresting gear and launch bar systems,tire and wheel,brake assembly,hydraulic and pneumatic systems on fixed and rotary wing aircraft.Metallic materials that I work with are aluminum,magnesium,titanium,steel,stainless steel,copper, manganese,brass,bronzes,beryllium,zine and all their alloys.Nonmetallic materials that I work with are fiberglass,transparent plastic,boron,graphite,kevlar,balsa wood.Here are the Commands that I been in from 1982-2003. Attack Squadron 174 (VA-174)NAS Cecil Field,Jacksonville,FL. Organizational Maintenance Training On A-7E Corsair II aircraft from 1982-1982. Attack Squadron 12(VA-12)NAS Cecil Field,Jacksonville,FL. Maintaining A-7E Corsair II aircraft On board USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN-69)from 1982-1986.Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (VFA-106)NAS Cecil Field,Jacksonville,FL. Organizational and Intermediate Maintenance Training On F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from 1986-1986. AIMD NAS Cecil Field,Jacksonville,FL.Worked on A-7E,A-4,S-3B,F/A-18A,B,C,D aircraft from 1986-1989.Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 129 (VAQ-129)NAS Whidbey Island,Oak Harbor,WA.Organizational Maintenance Training On EA-6B Prowler aircraft From 1989-1989. Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 136(VAQ-136)NAF Atsugi,Japan.On board USS Midway (CV-41) and USS Independence (CV-62)maintaining EA-6B Prowler aircraft from 1989-1993. Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron One (HS-1)NAS Jacksonville,Jacksonville,FL.Maintaining SH-3H Sea King & SH-60F Seahawk aircraft from 1993-1994. Strike Fighter Squadron 83 (VFA-83)NAS Cecil Field,Jacksonville,FL.Maintaining F/A-18C aircraft on board USS Enterprise (CVN-65) from 1994-1997. Strike Fighter Squadron 106(VFA-106)NAS Cecil Field,Jacksonville,FL And NAS Oceana,Virginia Beach,VA.Maintaining F/A-18A,B,C,D Hornet aircraft from 1997-2000. Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81)NAS Oceana,Virginia Beach,VA.Maintai...Expand for more