Word: wellsandt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force Academy. Determined to fly fighter jets, he set out to nail down every civilian flight certification he could, a strategy that he hoped would enable him to enter the Air Force a notch above the rest. "He was one of the best I've ever had," says Mark Wellsandt, who helped give O'Grady his primary flight training at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane and eventually became good friends with the young pilot. "You'd demonstrate a maneuver to him one time, and he was able to just pick it up and go from there...
...Wellsandt also taught the survival course at Fairchild that O'Grady took and that gave him the training he used with such focus and discipline during his six days in the woods. "I heard he ate bugs to survive, and that's taught in the school," says Wellsandt. "Knowing Scott as long as I have, I'm sure he was thinking, 'Hey, I've got other things I want to do, and if I want to do them, then I've got to get with the program...
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