The Backstory
My path to UND: When I was 19 I enlisted in the US Marine Corps with an open aviation contract, meaning they could assign me any job as long as it related to aviation. I was assigned as a flightline mechanic on the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, but never got to do that job. When I was finishing my tech school, I received my orders to Marine Helicopter Squadron One to be a flightline mechanic for them, 1st on CH-46's, then on the famous VH-60n White Hawk. While there I became a crew chief and spent my last 2 years in the military working as a member of the flight crew. VH-60n at base of Yosemite Falls Yosemite National Park June 17, 2016 I separated from the Marines late 2016 with the goal of getting into the design side of the aviation industry. I went to school at Iowa State University (go Cyclones) for mechanical engineering and interned with Rolls-Royce North America as a manufacturing engineer supporting their assembly line for small helicopter engines, most n