Navy Pilot

Taking swim lessons at age five, little Enrico leaned into underwater swimming: “It felt like flying.”

It started there. Enrico grew fascinated with airplanes, so at Tech he majored in…… Law and Society? (“People told me it was harder so I said, I can do it.”)

By college, aerospace would be his major – at the U.S. Naval Academy, with its 7% acceptance rate. Unlike the Air Force, Navy pilots land on waterborne carriers – way cooler, he thought.

Enrico graduated the Academy in 2020 and is now advancing through ever more demanding flight training levels. He is scheduled to become a full pilot – a winged aviator – this fall, followed by another year of even more challenging training. Then he will fly an F/A-18 Super Hornet – like the Blue Angels – or a similar aircraft.