by Kerwin N.
My Lockheed Martin experience
spans over 40 years and three diverse chapters of my life.
My first connection goes
way back, at the age of 20 in the spring of 1959. I was in flight training with
the Navy and flew instrument training quals in the back seat of the Lockheed
T2V jet training aircraft. When I completed flight training, my first
assignment was the world famous United States Navy Hurricane Hunters. We flew
into (and out of) hurricanes in the Lockheed Willie Victor, a military version
of the Super Constellation.
Years later, in 1976,
having left the Navy and working in the life insurance industry, I met Cortland
Gross, Lockheed CEO at the time. He was our board of directors audit committee
chair, and as manager of EDP (now IT) auditing, I briefed him on this newly
formed function.
More years later, in 1985,
I joined GE Aerospace, soon to become Martin Marietta, then Lockheed Martin. I
was an individual contributor in systems integration for 15 years, and retired
in 2000.
Great airplanes, great
people, great place to work!
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