Bill Kirchoff, 35, an aviation electrician who has assembled and serviced the F-16 since 1978, said he had no worries about how F-16 pilots would fare in battle.

Follet is an aviation electrician's mate.

John Hattaway, a 28-year-old aviation electrician, said that though he had been propositioned twice by homosexual shipmates while on duty, he did not oppose their presence in the military.

The parents of Steven Blocher, an aviation electrician's mate third class, had a meeting with President Bush today, hours after they learned that their son was being released.

Vasquez said he needed citizenship to land a job as an aviation electrician.

"I just saw him on television , and the camera stayed on him a good long time," said Sandy Blocher of Charlotte, N.C., whose son Steven, 23, is an aviation electrician's mate third class on the crew.

Within these a number of further specializations are available such as aviation electrician, or gas systems technician dealing with propulsion.

He then joined the Navy, where he was trained as an aviation electrician.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Frank Tomandl, Jr., aviation electrician's mate, U.S. Navy, of the McMurdo Station winter party, 1968.

They are people like Michael Zipp, 39, who trained in the Marines as an aviation electrician.