Previously Held NEC AD-0000-Aviation Machinist's Mate
AD-6416-J-52 Jet Turbojet Engine First Degree/IMA Mechanic
AD-6420-F-404 Turbofan Jet Engine First Degree/IMA Mechanic
633X-Limited Duty Officer - Aviation Maintenance
Service Years
1980 - Present
Official/Unofficial US Navy Certificates
Order of the Arctic Circle (Bluenose)
Order of the Shellback
Order of the Golden Shellback
Safari To Suez
Official Badges
Unofficial Badges
Additional Information
What are you doing now:
Commanding Officer at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training (formerly known as NAMTRAGRU)
OEF - Afghanistan/Liberation of Afghanistan (2001)
From Month/Year
October / 2001
To Month/Year
November / 2001
Description On October 7, 2001 with the beginning of punishing aerial bombardments, missile attacks and special forces commando missions against the Taliban and bin Laden's forces by the United States and the United Kingdom (the Allies). An informal alliance between the Northern Alliance and the Allies developed, with coordination between Allied air attacks and ground attacks by the Northern Alliance.
These attacks led to the fall of Kabul on Nov. 13, 2001, as the Taliban retreated from most of northern Afghanistan.
By November 25, 2001, the last Taliban/Al-Qaida stronghold in the north, Konduz, had fallen to the Northern Alliance. American and British special forces, numbering only in the hundreds, are on the ground in Afghanistan to liaison with the Northern Alliance as well as to conduct raids, ambushes and reconnaissance in order to destroy the Taliban and Al-Qaida forces.
