Flying: From Dream to Takeoff
Like many of her Navy ROTC peers at BU, Denise Miller has always dreamed of becoming a pilot. Miller comes from a family that bleeds Navy -- a sister who's a 2008 Naval Academy graduate and a surface warfare officer on the carrier USS Ronald Reagan, and parents, now retired, who met as young naval enlistees stationed in Guam.
At NAS Pensacola Miller piloted a Cessna, learned which planes use which fuel, how to navigate with a whiz wheel, how to swim through a flaming oil slick, and how to make a life preserver out of her pants.
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