Mikie Sherrill Quotes

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

I spent one semester in Air Force ROTC, as I wanted to be a pilot.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

Taking command of HMS Portland is definitely the highlight of my 16 years in the Navy. It is a challenge that I am fully trained for and ready to undertake.

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.

I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

I was a child of World War Two. I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.