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By SHELLI PARKER | Athens Daily Review, Texas | Published: March 2, 2021 ATHENS, Texas (Tribune News Service) When Chief Warrant Officer 5 Doug Phillips was a young boy, he remembers a helicopter landing in his backyard. His father, a military pilot, stepped out. After that moment, all of his education, training and motivation drove him toward that goal and he joined the National Guard at 18. Now three decades later, he has brought 48,000 lbs. of hope with water deliveries to Cedar Creek Lake in his Chinook helicopter. When I was between 3 and 5 years old, I was riding my big wheel outside. My father was a helicopter pilot and he landed a Huey helicopter basically in our backyard while he ran in to get maps, Phillips said. I knew that was what I wanted to do. Now I have been in the Army for 30 years. ....
By Shelli Parker [email protected] Mar 2, 2021 1 of 3 When Chief Warrant Officer 5 Doug Phillips was a young boy, he remembers a helicopter landing in his backyard. His father, a military pilot, stepped out. After that moment, all of his education, training and motivation drove him toward that goal and he joined the National Guard at 18. Now three decades later, he has brought 48,000 lbs. of hope with water deliveries to Cedar Creek Lake in his Chinook helicopter. âWhen I was between 3 and 5 years old, I was riding my big wheel outside. My father was a helicopter pilot and he landed a Huey helicopter basically in our backyard while he ran in to get maps,â Phillips said. âI knew that was what I wanted to do. Now I have been in the Army for 30 years. ....