PROFILE Director of Maintenance | Maritime Helicopters
teve Slade says that for as long as he can remember, he has always been interested in aviation. He fl ew remote-controlled airplanes
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as a kid. Slade says his mother has a picture of him and his grandfather when he was three years old. In the picture, Slade is pointing to the sky. One day, he asked his mother what he was pointing to. “An airplane,” she told him. This is Slade’s story. When Slade graduated from high
school, he felt that college wasn’t going to be his cup of tea. He was fl ipping burgers at Dairy Queen as he tried to fi gure out what he wanted to do with his life. He says the sister of his girlfriend at the time was responsible for getting his foot into aviation. “I should probably thank her for my aviation career,” he says. “Without my knowledge, she contacted an Air Force recruiter and told him that I was interested in joining the Air Force. The recruiter called me out of the blue and said, ‘I hear you are interested in joining the Air Force. Do you want to come by our offi ce and talk?’” Slade decided to talk to the recruiter and hear what he had to say. He made an appointment to meet him at the recruiting offi ce. He went to the armed forces offi ce, which housed recruiters from all the services in diff erent parts of the building. He sat down with the Air Force recruiter and told him he wanted to be a pilot. The recruiter informed Slade that he needed to have a four-year degree to be a pilot. He told Slade he could work as a loader on a C-5. That didn’t interest Slade, but he told the recruiter he would think about it. As he was leaving, Slade passed by the Army recruiter’s offi ce. The recruiter looked at Slade and said, “How’s it going?” So Slade walked in and started talking to the him. Slade told the Army recruiter he
wanted to be a pilot. The recruiter gave
01.02 2015
6 By Joe Escobar
DOMmagazine
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