Toll Gate graduate embarks on military pilot training

Posted 8/18/16

2nd Lt. Ryan Garvey, a 2010 Toll Gate High School graduate, is now embarking on a “lengthy and rigorous” training process to become a pilot, according to the Navy Office of Community …

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Toll Gate graduate embarks on military pilot training

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2nd Lt. Ryan Garvey, a 2010 Toll Gate High School graduate, is now embarking on a “lengthy and rigorous” training process to become a pilot, according to the Navy Office of Community Outreach.

Currently, Garvey is stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas as a Marine Corps naval aviator student with the “Ranger Training Squadron (VT-27), which operates T-6B Texan II aircraft. The T-6B Texan is a training aircraft that is powered by a 1,100 shaft horsepower, free-turbine, turboprop single-engine, four-bladed propeller, with a cruising speed of 310 mph.

Garvey will be learning to fly both multi-engine and land-based aircraft in collaboration with the Coast Guard, Navy and Marine Corps

The main priority of VT-27 is to train future naval aviators and to foster their leadership and officer skills.

Garvey will have to undergo four phases of flight training, including aviation pre-flight indoctrinations, primary flight training and advanced flight training, before graduating the program and receiving the “coveted Wings of Gold.”

In a statement Garvey said, “Becoming a pilot has always been an interest of mine early in life. My father was an aviation maintenance officer in the Marine Corps, so I wanted to make him proud by learning how to fly military aircraft and becoming one of the best aviators in the Navy.”

Should he graduate, Garvey will continue his training in a specific aircraft, including Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter jet, the P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft or the SH-60 Seahawk helicopter.

“What I enjoy most about VT-27, is the instructors here are very knowledgeable and are willing to let me make mistakes and learn from them,” said Garvey.

Garvey is training to become one of the pilots for aircraft that can take off from and land aboard aircraft carriers and other aviation capable ships, which gives the Naval Air Forces the unique capability” to operate with surface forces anywhere in the world’s oceans.

The release, written by Rick Burke, said that recently, many of these aircrafts stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and other Middle East Waters have launched “hundreds of missions against terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria.”

“What the men and women of this squadron accomplish every day is nothing short of miraculous,” explained CDR Corbett Dixon, Commanding Officer of VT-27. “The students are in the process of moving from just another college graduate in society, to someone who sacrifices their own time and effort for society. That’s what it means to serve in the Navy. That’s what they’re learning as they learn to fly. And the staff here, the instructor pilots and civilians, put in an amazing amount of effort day in and day out, to ensure that we send the best young men and women forward to serve our nation, with all the skills, dedication and integrity necessary to serve successfully.”

As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s squadrons with the newest aircraft platforms, Garvey said he and other VT-27 sailors are proud to be part of a warfighting team that readily defends America at all times.

To read the whole story written by Rick Burke, visit http://navyoutreach.blogspot.com/2016/08/warwick-ri-native-trains-to-be-military.html.

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