Air Force Veteran Honored By His Girlfriend For Military Monday
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00:00Tampa Bay's morning crew want to honor and thank those who protect and serve our country.
00:05Time now for Military Monday on 99.5 QYK.
00:10All right, it is Military Monday, and this is pretty cool.
00:14Lana had a chance to talk to Laura about her boyfriend, Caleb, who serves in our Air Force, and here's what it sounded like.
00:19Good morning, Laura. How are you doing today?
00:21Good morning, Lana. How about yourself today?
00:23Well, I'm excited to hear about Caleb. Tell us how he served in the Air Force.
00:27So he's been in the Air Force for seven years. Fresh out of high school, he joined in the active duty.
00:35He's been on four deployments so far in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Iran, and Afghanistan, which is extremely impressive.
00:44And besides that, he's done amazing work via maintenance and creating different programs for emergency maintenance crash throughout the eastern states as well.
00:54Wow, that is just amazing.
00:55And also from your email, it looks like he has earned top nobility from some of the higher-ups, and he is well-respected.
01:03Oh, yeah, absolutely.
01:05Within his short time of working there, he's actually gained a staff sergeant position within a shorter time period than most usually do.
01:13And he's gone from more of a maintenance-type career to more of like a QA position where he oversees a lot of that maintenance work on a daily basis.
01:20Wow, it just really sounds like something he loves to do.
01:23Oh, yeah. He loves it. It's going to be a lifelong career for him.
01:25We actually just moved down to St. Pete a few weeks ago.
01:28Right now, he's in the reserve, and he plans on going back to active duty in a few years.
01:33But, yeah, we're loving it so far.
01:35He'll be stationed at Nick Dale.
01:36Oh, that's awesome.
01:38So what kind of stuff does he like to do when he's not out there protecting our country?
01:43Well, he loves to go fishing.
01:45We'll take the boat out, go on the bay.
01:47We love that.
01:48And he also loves to play golf.
01:50He's always out on the golf course as much as he can be.
01:53Well, it sounds like he just loves the outdoors.
01:55Yes, and we're major beach people, too.
01:57So whenever we get a chance to go and soak up the sun, we're always out there as much as possible.
02:00So it sounds like he's going to be making this career.
02:04What do you think drives him to stay in it for this long?
02:07Well, I think, for one, he's definitely put in a lot of time so far.
02:11And I think just because of the benefits and just the fact that he's learned so much about his career so far,
02:17he's gained so much knowledge.
02:18For him, that's just something that he wants to pursue and kind of educate more people on going forward.
02:23But, yeah, but he loves it.
02:25He loves exactly what he does, and I don't think he would want to change that anytime soon.
02:28Well, Laura, we appreciate you giving us a call this morning.
02:31We love learning about people that live and work right here in the Tampa Bay area
02:35that are out serving our country and protecting us.
02:38So what we want to do, we just wanted to say thank you.
02:41Our good friends from Stingray Chevrolet have given us a $100 gift card.
02:45So we would like you to take this and maybe take Caleb out, maybe go out for dinner,
02:49or if maybe there's something that he needs to buy or whatever.
02:53It's just a small token of our appreciation for what he does for our country.
02:57So we just wanted to say thank you.
02:58Oh, thank you for that.
02:59We appreciate it.
03:00Well, if you want to nominate someone for Military Monday or First Responder Friday,
03:03you just go to 99.5QYK.com.