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Capt. Stephen Kaminski, an F-16 pilot with the 157th Fighter Squadron at McEntire ANGS, South Carolina, qualified as an instructor pilot on 20 August—two days before turning twenty-five years old. Most pilots complete their initial training at twenty-four. Kaminski, who has been flying since he was ten, enlisted with the Alabama Air National Guard at age seventeen. He completed an aviation management degree at nineteen and then sought out an Air National Guard unit that would send him to pilot training. The 169th Fighter Group hired him and sent him to officer school, pilot training, fighter lead-in, and F-16 training. He rejoined the unit at age twenty-two. While in training, he earned his master's degree in aviation management.
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