living to fly, flying to live
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Living to Fly, Flying to Live. Mike Kukulski USAF 1981-2001 Southwest Airlines 2001-Present. The beginning…. Starting off right…. High School Senior Portrait, 1977 Enjoy the hair while you can!. I Loved the Academy food…. The first women at USAFA highlighted the need for changes…. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Living to Fly, Flying to Live
Mike KukulskiUSAF 1981-2001
Southwest Airlines 2001-Present
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The beginning…
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Starting off right…
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High School Senior Portrait, 1977
Enjoy the hair while you can!
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I Loved the Academy food…
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The first women at USAFA highlighted the need for changes…
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What kind of training? Ar-mee training, Sir!
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Pilot Training – Now we’re talking…
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21 Years old – solo in the T38…
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First Flying Assignment – OV-10 Bronco at Sembach Air Base, Germany, 1983
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OV-10 was a Forward Air Control (FAC) aircraft, used to direct air strikes against ground targets
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…like this Russian tank.
Nice beret, dude!
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Flying in the Alps…
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…and then in the California high desert near Victorville…
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… where I met her…
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…she seemed to be a reasonable match for a fighter pilot…
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…which led to this.
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I transitioned to the A-10 in 1985, and flew it until 1990 at:- Suwon Air Base, Korea- RAF Bentwaters, England- RAF Alconbury, England
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Just your basic A-10 hero pilot…
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Living the hard life overseas…
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Transitioned to the F-15E Strike Eagle in 1990…
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Then something else happened…
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Flying over burning Kuwaiti oil fields in 1991
My backseater, Hound, and me before a flight…
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All American family at Seymour-Johnson AFB in North Carolina…
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My backseater in 1992 was Baby Huey…
Had 2 deployments to Saudi Arabia, then moved to Luke AFB, AZ to instruct in the F-15E
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…Followed by a stint as an operational test manager at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Then back to the A-10 at Pope AFB, North Carolina, where I was the Support Squadron Commander for the 23rd Fighter Group, the Flying Tigers
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Another deployment to Kuwait – here we are refueling over the Red Sea…
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Retired on March 23, 2001
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Started at Southwest Airlines on March 29, 2001…
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…Still Living to Fly, Flying to Live