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I am Captain Isaac Becker with the

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United States Navy Flight Demonstration

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Squadron , otherwise known as the Blue

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Angels . I'm currently the M2 and C-130

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demonstration pilot .

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When I was in college , I very

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fortuitously happened to bump into a

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Marine Corps Gunnery sergeant who was a

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recruiter and told me that they could

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offer me a path to aviation through the

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Platoon leaders course program . The

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platoon leaders course offers a path

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for people who are in university or

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just working jobs that aren't in the

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university but already have a degree to

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go to officer candidate school without

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necessarily needing to affiliate with a

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service institution or an RTC program .

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It's there that I . Realize that the

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Marine Corps in particular and more so

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than the other branches really

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resonated with not only who I was at

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the time , but then also the leader I

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wanted to become . So it was a sort of

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a two hat solution that I could both

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become this better version of myself

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while also fulfilling my goals as

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becoming a pilot . While going through

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flight school , I was selected to be a

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C-130 pilot , and after flight school ,

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I went to training in North Carolina

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before heading out to my first fleet

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tour in Japan with BMGR 152 . As I was

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rounding up my tour there , I was

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looking for something else to do what I

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want to do with my next tour , and a

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friend of mine suggested that I apply

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for the Blue Angels and specifically

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for the fat opera position . I ended up

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networking with a few friends of mine

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who were in the position . They said it

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was one of the best jobs I ever had ,

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so I threw my hat in the ring for the

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application and was very fortunate

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enough to make it through the selection

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process , and then for the last year

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and a half I've been working with the

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team , and I will be here for another

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11.5 after that .