Flight surgeon, not involved in the operation of the aircraft but is considered in the American military to be aircrew.
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The first interviewee was Frank Robertazzi, a businessman; the second was Daniel Belardinelli, a painter; and the third was Heather Ogle, a flight surgeon.
He is a Major in the Air National Guard and serves as flight surgeon, originally with an F-15 squadron in the Massachusetts Air National Guard and currently with an F-16 squadron in the 144th Fighter Wing, California Air National Guard, with whom he has deployed to Nicaragua and Saudi Arabia.
The G-1 remains a current uniform-issue item in naval aviation for officer and enlisted aviation personnel on flying status in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard (i.e., Naval Aviator, Naval Flight Officer, Naval Flight Surgeon, Naval Aircrewman, etc.) and is arguably best known as the leather flight jacket worn by Tom Cruise in the film Top Gun.
General Taylor was a chief flight surgeon and board certified in aerospace medicine by the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
From February 1996 to May 1997 he served as a flight surgeon for NASA personnel deployed to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, Star City, Russia, followed by work in the Center for Flight Control in Korolyov, Russia, in support of the NASA Expedition 4 to the Mir Space Station.