Basic training
Air Force Reserve Airman First Class Braeden M. Horn, a 2017 graduate of Skyview High School, has completed basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. Horn is the son of Tina and Thomas Horn of Vancouver.
On assignment
Petty Officer First Class Tom Mayberry, a 2007 graduate of Mountain View High School, is a yeoman forward-deployed to the installation in Yokosuka, Japan, as the leading petty officer of the administrative unit there. In a recent press release, Mayberry credited lessons learned in Vancouver as having contributed to his success in the Navy. “My parents taught me to work hard and to keep going even when it gets tough,” Mayberry said. He has completed a deployment around the entire world, a tour Mayberry described as daunting, but “definitely worthwhile.”
Sonar Technician Second Class Nikki Benak of Vancouver fires a .50-caliber machine gun during a live-fire exercise aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Carney.
