# Navy Career Timeline ### Background - Here is a brief timeline of my Navy career --- ### Notes - 1978 - San Antonio, TX - Recruited by Navy during senior year at UT-Austin - Resolved issue with bee sting - Dallas, TX - 1978.09.06 - Enlisted - Pensacola, FL - Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS) - 1978.12.08 - Commissioned as Ensign USNR - 1979 - Corpus Christi, TX - T-28 - Flight training - Kingsville, TX - T-2 & TA-4 Flight training - Washed out of pilot training due to problems landing on the boat - 1980 - Pensacola, FL - NFO flight training - 1980 - 1985 - Whidbey Island, WA - A-6 RAG - VA-196 - USS Coral Sea - Around the world cruise - USS Constellation - First ever F-18 deployment - 1986 - 1989 - Patuxent River, MD - US Navy Test Pilot School - Systems Flight Test - 1990 - 1991 - Whidbey Island, WA - A-6 RAG - VA-145 - USS Ranger - OPERATION DESERT STORM - 1991 - 1994 - Arlington, VA - Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) - AX Avionics System Program Officer (ASPO) - 1994 - 1999 - San Antonio, TX - JEWC, JC2WC, JIOC - Same command - They kept changing the name to protect the guilty - Alamo - San Antonio, TX - Retired