Friday, February 19, 2021
“My first position within NOAA was with the NWS' Center Weather Service Unit in Atlanta, Ga, as an Aviation Meteorologist in the busiest airspace in the world. [Throughout my career], I’ve had the fortune of working in a joint environment where all branches are represented and contributing to the mission. Each branch brings its own specific culture, talents and arena of dominance.
“In high school, learning computer languages like BASIC and Fortran. My science teachers inspired my love for both science and technology. And I was turned on to meteorology because of a job fair. An Air Force weather forecaster who was there gave me the most impressive, informative, and simple pitch I’ve ever heard to this day- with Star Trek, The Next Generation, which was out [at the time.
"When I flew with the Hurricane Hunters-it was just a steady joke, ‘cause I was among friends and it was a safe place- that a lot of people figured I was the wrong guy. I got that all the time. Someone would say, Oh, you must be a pilot or a [navigator]. No one thought that I was the smart guy. I don't know how it worked out, but we actually ended up putting an African-American in every crew position on the flight, which was, at the time, historic.
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