When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

After high school in 1969, I was appointed to the Air Force Academy. In '73, I studied for my postgraduate degree and became a USAF pilot in 1974. After my discharge in 1980, I became a commercial pilot and flew my first airline flight at Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1980.

I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.