Marine Corps pilot killed in the crash of an F/A-18C Hornet in northern Nevada.
Capt Nannen was killed March 1 when the plane crashed 70 miles east of the Naval Air Station at Fallon, NV. He was a student at the TopGun school there.
Nannen's permanent assignment was at the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan and he had twice deployed to Afghanistan during his 10-year career.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. "Capt. Nannen was a fighter pilot through and through," said Col. Hunter Hobson, commanding officer of Marine Aircraft Group 12. "He embodied all the qualities of the heroic aviators of old and was the leader of the current generation."
Nannen is survived by his wife, Sarah, and their four children, Curtis, Betsy, Peter and Isla.
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is Freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within.
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest of night;
Spare me no pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again.
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
Gary Claude Stoker
Capt Nannen was killed March 1 when the plane crashed 70 miles east of the Naval Air Station at Fallon, NV. He was a student at the TopGun school there.
Nannen's permanent assignment was at the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan and he had twice deployed to Afghanistan during his 10-year career.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. "Capt. Nannen was a fighter pilot through and through," said Col. Hunter Hobson, commanding officer of Marine Aircraft Group 12. "He embodied all the qualities of the heroic aviators of old and was the leader of the current generation."
Nannen is survived by his wife, Sarah, and their four children, Curtis, Betsy, Peter and Isla.
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is Freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within.
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest of night;
Spare me no pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again.
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
Gary Claude Stoker
Marine Corps pilot killed in the crash of an F/A-18C Hornet in northern Nevada.
Capt Nannen was killed March 1 when the plane crashed 70 miles east of the Naval Air Station at Fallon, NV. He was a student at the TopGun school there.
Nannen's permanent assignment was at the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan and he had twice deployed to Afghanistan during his 10-year career.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. "Capt. Nannen was a fighter pilot through and through," said Col. Hunter Hobson, commanding officer of Marine Aircraft Group 12. "He embodied all the qualities of the heroic aviators of old and was the leader of the current generation."
Nannen is survived by his wife, Sarah, and their four children, Curtis, Betsy, Peter and Isla.
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is Freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within.
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest of night;
Spare me no pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again.
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
Gary Claude Stoker
Capt Nannen was killed March 1 when the plane crashed 70 miles east of the Naval Air Station at Fallon, NV. He was a student at the TopGun school there.
Nannen's permanent assignment was at the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan and he had twice deployed to Afghanistan during his 10-year career.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. "Capt. Nannen was a fighter pilot through and through," said Col. Hunter Hobson, commanding officer of Marine Aircraft Group 12. "He embodied all the qualities of the heroic aviators of old and was the leader of the current generation."
Nannen is survived by his wife, Sarah, and their four children, Curtis, Betsy, Peter and Isla.
Impressions of a Pilot
Flight is Freedom in its purest form,
To dance with the clouds which follow a storm;
To roll and glide, to wheel and spin,
To feel the joy that swells within.
To leave the earth with its troubles and fly,
And know the warmth of a clear spring sky;
Then back to earth at the end of the day,
Released from the tensions which melted away.
Should my end come while I am in flight,
Whether brightest day or darkest of night;
Spare me no pity and shrug off the pain,
Secure in the knowledge that I'd do it again.
For each of us is created to die,
And within me I know,
I was born to fly.
Gary Claude Stoker
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