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you know people sometimes look at you

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know

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how do you go from this kid to an

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astronaut that's a pretty

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big step but in

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reality it's really a bunch of little

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steps that kind of build upon

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my brother and i were explorers at a

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very young age

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spent a lot of time outside a lot of

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time at the jersey shore as we got older

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when i went to college i kind of took

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that to the next level going to a

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we had this 800-foot ship that we would

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take to europe every summer

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it was a world war ii

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troop and cargo vessel it did have that

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kind of romantic aspect to it and that

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just reminded me of what it must have

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been like on a sailing vessel hundreds

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i think operating the vessel just the

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kind of the methodology and the

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attention to detail you needed to do

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that helped me when i went into the navy

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really helped me do well in flight

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school which then helped me get selected

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to fly jets which then transitioned to

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flying fighters the f-14 tomcat

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later becoming a test pilot and an