Chief Warrant Officer 5 Cliff Mead (foreground) of Copperas Cove, Texas, battalion maintenance officer and UH-60 Black Hawk pilot, 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Division-Center, talks to his son?s family in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, through video teleconference before his promotion ceremony Jan. 31. Mead?s son, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Chris Mead (far left on screen), an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter pilot, just recently graduated flight school, following in the footsteps of his father. Air Cav pilot reaches pinnacle of career as son begins


Chief Warrant Officer 5 Cliff Mead (foreground) of Copperas Cove, Texas, battalion maintenance officer and UH-60 Black Hawk pilot, 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Division-Center, talks to his son?s family in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, through video teleconference before his promotion ceremony Jan. 31. Mead?s son, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Chris Mead (far left on screen), an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter pilot, just recently graduated flight school, following in the footsteps of his father. Air Cav pilot reaches pinnacle of career as son begins his 251329


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