![]() ![]() Her military background helps in her dental career, she said. “You have to know what you’re getting into, what you’re signing up for, and what your commitment is.”Īfter graduating from UIC in 2012, she remained in the National Guard Reserves, finally retiring in December 2012 with 24 years total of military service. “A military career is not for everybody and I was honest with students about that,” Dr. While earning her DDS at UIC, she remained in the military, transferring her commission to the National Guard and working as a student recruiter. Tischke was pleased to pick UIC because not only were she, her husband, and their four children living in the Chicago area, but because she wanted a school in “an urban area with a large patient base,” she said. United came out of bankruptcy in 2010, but since I was already in dental school at that time, I became a dentist anyway.”Īccepted at both UIC and Midwestern University in Arizona, Dr. I thought about becoming a dentist because it was flexible, would give me a career in science, and would allow me to support the family if it was our only income. I have an engineering degree, so I have a science background. “I had no intention of becoming a dentist, but we needed a plan for an alternative source of income. “We didn’t know if they were going to survive,” she said. In the second decade of the 2000s, three major airlines declared bankruptcy, including United, and the couple was worried about the future of the airline industry. Her husband, Jim, also is a retired Naval Aviator, who flies for United Airlines. “In the photo, that’s me on the bow of the George Washington going through the ditch-the Suez Canal,” she said. Tischke’s work as a C2 carrier pilot also took her to Spain, Greece, Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, to name just a few places. “If there’s no war the fighter pilots are practicing instead of shooting, but we C2 pilots completed our mission by hitting the boat no matter what.”ĭr. “We did our mission in war and peace,” she said. Basically, we’d follow the boat wherever it was headed and set up an accompanying beach detachment because they didn’t have room onboard to house our planes full time.” ![]() “We’d keep hitting the boat-supplying it-until it went out to the Atlantic out of range of land, when we would ride aboard until we were in range of the Azores, where we’d start flying back and forth with cargo again. “For example, we’d take off from Virginia Beach as the boat was coming from the mainland to Bermuda,” Dr. Kennedy and USS George Washington before accepting orders as a station pilot in Key West, FL, followed by orders as an intermediate jet instructor.Ī C2 pilot shuttles people, parts, and mail aboard aircraft carriers via arrested landings using the aircraft’s tail hook to “catch a wire.” From there she completed flight school, earned her Naval Aviator wings, and became a C2 Greyhound carrier pilot. Tischke’s military service began with Aviation Officer Candidate School. The daughter of a World War II bomber pilot, (her father flew B-25s for the Army Air Corps), Dr. “People say, ‘Wait, you’re Navy, not Air Force?” “Some people don’t even know the Navy has pilots,” Dr. She spent two decades as an aviator in the U.S. Gail Tischke, ’12, had a very different career before dentistry. ![]()
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