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Dan grew up in Plymouth, Indiana and first learned to fly at Plymouth Municipal (C65) in high school. He attended Southern Illinois University where he worked as a flight instructor and flew for Best Inns of America while earning a degree in Aviation Management. Soon after graduating in 1989, he was hired at Express Airlines 1 where he flew as a Jetstream 31 pilot and instructor. In 1993, Dan was selected by the 163rd Fighter Squadron in Fort Wayne, IN, for Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training, Reese AFB, Lubbock, Texas. He left Lubbock in 1994 with newly pinned on Air Force wings and a new bride, Genie, and went on to Luke AFB to learn to fly the F-16. They returned to Ft Wayne where he became operational and was eventually hired as a full-time technician pilot. '