 My Navy experience was great. I started off as an enlisted man. I joined the Navy in 1951 and I was on the USS Hancock in 1954 and I saw airplanes taking off and landing and I decided I wanted to do that. So I applied to be a Naval Aviation Cadet and I was accepted and I left the Hancock in the fall of 1954, reported to Pensacola. I checked into Pensacola to the personnel office and they said guess what kid you just made first class. So here I was a first class petty officer starting flight training but I only got to wear it for about two weeks and we got into khaki and I went through flight training for 18 months and got my wings in 1956 and then I flew until I retired in 1982 and it was a great experience. I spent a good deal of my time right here on the Midway. I flew off the Midway, off and on. I made two cruises on the Midway flying Phantoms and I was also on the Midway for a total of about six years off and on. So Midway was my home for a long time. I mean you're a home that helped you achieve your current success. Well I learned to think of course and when I joined the Navy I did not have a college degree but I actually got my college degree shortly after I retired from the Navy. I got a degree through a Navy program where we had on base education. I went through the University of Southern Illinois and I got a bachelor of science degree in aviation management through U.S. University of Southern Illinois and I have to tell you I've never been on or never have I seen the University of Southern Illinois but we had instructors come aboard the base which was a great program, was really good. I went to school for eight hours a day on Saturday and Sunday for two years so it worked out wonderful and so that's how I transferred of course a lot of my experience and a lot of my experience in the Navy was accepted for that degree of course.