1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 2 00:00:04,790 --> 00:00:06,980 My name is Gennady antonov lieutenant 3 00:00:06,980 --> 00:00:10,540 colonel 100 there W Inspector general 4 00:00:10,550 --> 00:00:13,050 and my A Fsc is 11 mike , which is 5 00:00:13,050 --> 00:00:15,360 mobility pilot . I was born and raised 6 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:18,050 in Belarus . I spent my 1st 16 years in 7 00:00:18,050 --> 00:00:21,700 Belarus , after which I um immigrated 8 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:23,700 to the United States to upstate new 9 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:25,811 york where I finished high school and 10 00:00:25,811 --> 00:00:27,589 spent about four years before I 11 00:00:27,589 --> 00:00:29,750 enlisted . I always wanted to fly 12 00:00:29,750 --> 00:00:32,780 airplanes . My grandfather was a bomber 13 00:00:32,780 --> 00:00:35,410 pilot in the Soviet Air Force for 33 14 00:00:35,410 --> 00:00:38,880 years . Uh so I kind of had that in my 15 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:40,824 blood , if you will metaphorically 16 00:00:40,824 --> 00:00:43,840 speaking I had to figure out how to 17 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,140 grow up and what to do in my life and I 18 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:49,450 decided that um flying airplanes would 19 00:00:49,450 --> 00:00:51,630 be great . Uh something that I really 20 00:00:51,630 --> 00:00:54,200 enjoyed . I decided to start from the 21 00:00:54,210 --> 00:00:57,990 very Beginning and list 1st , 22 00:00:58,170 --> 00:01:01,350 then get my education and then attempt 23 00:01:01,350 --> 00:01:04,820 to commission and hope to get uh into 24 00:01:04,820 --> 00:01:07,040 pilot training and it's all worth it . 25 00:01:08,020 --> 00:01:10,510 Um all of us having different 26 00:01:10,510 --> 00:01:13,230 backgrounds . Um I mean look , we all 27 00:01:13,230 --> 00:01:15,341 have different names , different last 28 00:01:15,341 --> 00:01:17,840 names . We've we've got different life 29 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,190 stories , different ways of thinking . 30 00:01:21,750 --> 00:01:24,480 All of that combined 31 00:01:25,270 --> 00:01:28,980 results in a fantastic opportunity 32 00:01:29,290 --> 00:01:31,430 to make tremendous progress