Tanker Pilot

For twenty-four years Mark Hasara operated one of the Air Force’s oldest airplanes, the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker. His career started during the Reagan Administration, carrying out Strategic Air Command's nuclear deterrent mission. Moving to Okinawa Japan in August 1990, he flew missions throughout the Pacific Rim and Southeast Asia. His first combat missions were in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. As a Duty Officer in the Tanker Airlift Control Center, he planned and ran five hundred airlift and air refueling missions a month. Upon retirement from the Air Force, Mark spent seven years at Rockwell Collins in engineering, designing and developing military fixed and rotary wing aircraft cockpits. Mark became a full-time author and defense industry consultant in 2014. Rush Limbaugh was the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show—the nation’s highest-rated talk radio program, with an audience of more than 30 million—and was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Way Things Ought To Be; See, I Told You So; and the Adventures of Rush Revere book series. Visit OfficialRushLimbaugh.com.