MTA requests more time to finalize the $10 purchase of the Lawrence Aviation site for a future LIRR station in Suffolk County.

The Hopkins native is an aviation machinist mate petty officer first class, working on the engines, fuel cells, smoke systems and the secondary power systems of the F-18s.

The Aviation Machinist- Second Class was on the U.S.S. Forrestal while serving in Desert Storm. “There’s a lot that happened over there with the, with the fires and stuff,” he said.