Combat Missions From the Cockpit

摘要

Major Michael Valenti, assistant operations officer for VMGR-252, MCAS Cherry Point, explains: "My call-sign is 'Mario'. I have [had] two combat deployments to Iraq in the KC-130J - the first in 2006, and then 2009 - and I also went to Afghanistan in 2010-11 and 2013. I was the operations officer for the detachment for the most recent deployment and worked closely with the Harriers at Camp Bastion. We are a jack-of-all-trades and master of many.