At the suggestion of father Gene, a career teacher, coach and high school principal (plus a retired lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve), Wayne tooled over to the Leesburg military recruiting consortium with the intention of hearing what each branch of service might have to offer.
"I saw the Navy guy first – and last," Molnar said. "He started flipping through a glossy, table top display book with pictures of ships and submarines and other Navy stuff and I was, like, 'Whoa, wait a minute. Go back to that last page.'"
The admirals at the Pentagon call it "Navy Air," and those photos that caught Wayne's eye showed young warriors Molnar's age suited up and climbing into the cockpits of lumbering helicopters, switching on the propellers of transport aircraft loaded with paratroopers and, especially, manning the controls of high-performance jet aircraft.