VP Pence wings son at NASM

Vice President Mike Pence winged seven naval aviators – including his Marine Corps son 1st Lt. Michael Pence - at a Sept. 28 ceremony at Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss. The graduates, who typically spend about a year training at NASM, were some students affected by the grounding of jets in the spring of 2017, and had to stay on nearly twice as long. The seven grads included the Marine Corp’s Pence and a French Naval pilot. The graduates included Pence, Lt. j.g. Alexander Joseph Carlson, Lt. j.g. Ruairidh Alexander Robert Donaldson, Lt. j.g. Connor Andrew Humber, Lt. j.g. Maxwell James Kampton, Lt. j.g. Blake Leming, Lt. Sean Hugo Richardson and Lt. Matthew Scott Stafford. The Mississippi Council of the Navy League presented the younger Pence with the Golden Stick award that goes to the student aviator from a graduating class with the highest composite score. (Source: Meridian Star 09/28/18)