USN Commander (ret) Damon ‘D-Man’ Wenger flew the F-14 and F-18 with the United States Navy. He served as 3rd Fleet Air Training Officer, Strike Group 7 and Strike Group 11 Air Operations Officer, Operations Officer for VFA-131, Training Officer for VF-102, Demo Pilot for VFA-106, and was a 1994 graduate of Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN) at Naval Air Station Miramar. He retired in 2019 after five deployments.