Basic training
Air Force Airman First Class Liam A. McAllister, a 2019 graduate of Ridgefield High School, has completed basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio. McAllister is the son of Lisa Larson of Ridgefield.
On assignment
Fifteen years after joining the Navy, Chief Petty Officer Fred Lewis, a 2003 graduate of Fort Vancouver High School, serves with the “World Watchers” of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1, working with the Navy’s premier intelligence-gathering aircraft at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Lewis’s responsibilities include preforming pre- and post-flight inspections of aircraft, making load adjustment calculations, and in-flight monitoring of all aircraft systems.
“I enjoy the high-tempo environment because it’s not the mundane office space,” Lewis said in a press release.
Lewis still fondly remembers the lessons he learned in Vancouver. “My hometown taught me to always have fun in what you do because if you aren’t having fun, then it’s just work,” he said. “I love coming to work every day and love my job and what I get to do and helping other sailors.”
