Sergeant First Class
United States
My career with the US Army in Aviation was versatile, starting at the rank of Private, progressing to Airborne and thus finishing my 25 years with experience as a Standardization Instructor, a Platoon Sergeant, Quality Control Supervisor, Maintenance Advisor, and as the Brigade Transition Non-Commisioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC) while assigned to Ft Bragg, NC; Ft Belvoir VA, and retiring from Schofield Barracks, HI. I completed 25 years of active duty military service including three deployments to Afghanistan totaling 27 months, as well as completing 4 overseas tours combining to over 7 years.While serving as a Platoon Sergeant and Standardization Instructor for multiple aircraft types, I accumulated 1740 of my career total of 2830 flight hours, and 860 of my 1300 career total Night Vision Goggle (NVG) hours. While assigned to the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, I worked with the UH-60M Project Management Office, United States Army Aviation Logistics School (USAALS), and the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE). I was responsible for ensuring the Brigade's timely completion of the transition, by facilitating and tracking all training requirements required to rapidly and successfully transition the Soldier and civilian contractors in the Brigade's fleet modernization from UH-60s to UH-60M and CH-47F. This transition consisted of over 600 personnel: pilots, flight engineers, crew chiefs, and maintenance personnel from 9 separate MOSs. In my annual evaluation reports it was often annotated by my superiors that I “demonstrated superior maintenance management skills”.