Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, October 15, 2009

  USMC Lance Corporal Garrett STORHOFF is currently stationed in Japan for six months.

STORHOFF is an F18 Alpha Jet aviation mechanic. His job includes repairing or replacing anything in the jet's powerline (pumps, engine parts, etc.). STOFHOFF also checks the pre-flight list with the pilot to make sure everything on the jet works, which may take an hour or longer.

After landing, STORHOFF refuels and repowers the jet, and goes through then entire process again for the next departure. There is no air crew, so by using only hand signals, STORHOFF also launches and taxis jets.

He is the son of Greg and Crystal STORHOFF of Mount Ayr.

  Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2012

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, February 23, 2012

U. S. Marine Cpl. Garrat STORHOFF, a native of Mount Ayr, plane captain, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron-115 (VMFA-115), attached to the 1st Mar I Aircraft Wing, sits outside the cockpit of a F/A-Hornet on the flightline of Wing I Royal Thai Force Base Tuesday, Feb. 14. Additionally two Hornest from VMFA-115 take off to commence bilateral training in support of exercise Cobra Gold 201. The exercise consists of multinational combine joint training events executed annually and held throughout the Kindgom of Thailand. Eercise Cobra Gold is the largest multilateral exercise in the Asia-Pacific region, offering more than 20 participating countries opportunites to improve interop ability.

Photograph courtesy of Mount Ayr Record-News

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2012

Lance Corporal Garrett STORHOFF & Corporal Anthony ROTERT, A Christmas Story, 2009

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