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Thomas L. Potton Captain · US Air Force · 2004 to 2011

Thomas Potton, “Tom” grew up in a family of people with strong military backgrounds. He also loved to fly and had his private pilot’s license by the time he was 17 years old. He lived in Alaska since 1982. His father was a commercial pilot and a missionary pilot. Tom, being home schooled, worked on his studies early then went over to the airport hangar to work on planes and learned to fly. The missionary work involved flying in humanitarian aid items to the small villages in hard to get to places.

On graduating from high school, he was very aware that he needed a college degree a...

 

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