The Briefing Room
General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: kevindavis007 on February 05, 2020, 04:17:03 am
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He's only 13, but he's already got his eye on joining the nation's newest military branch.
Meet Iain Lanphier, the Scottsdale, Arizona 8th-grader who attended the State of the Union Address Tuesday night as one of President Donald Trump's special guests. Lanphier got a standing ovation in the packed House of Representatives as Trump introduced him.
"Iain has always dreamed of going to space. He was first in his class and among the youngest at an aviation academy," Trump said. "He aspires to go to the Air Force Academy, and then, he has his eye on the Space Force. As Iain says, 'most people look up at space, I want to look down on the world.'"
Source: https://www.isn-news.com/2020/02/great-grandson-of-tuskegee-airman-wants.html (https://www.isn-news.com/2020/02/great-grandson-of-tuskegee-airman-wants.html)