MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Tony Briotta would’ve enjoyed attending Middle Tennessee State University’s May 5 commencement to personally receive his master’s degree, but he was working.
And, you could say he was just 45,000 feet from graduation and Murphy Center, where four total commencements found more than 2,650 fellow students graduating during the course of two days.
As a Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. test pilot based out of Savannah, Georgia, Briotta and a co-pil .