Lt. Col. John Marks, a pilot with the 303rd Fighter Squadron, is just 100 hours away from completing his 7,000 hour on the A-10 attack jet.
Lt. Col. John Marks, a pilot with the 303rd Fighter Squadron, shuts down his engines after completing his 6000th hour in an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft November 14, 2016, at Whiteman AFB, Mo. Marks has been flying the A-10 since the first Gulf War and has spent the equivalent of 250 days in the cockpit. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Bob Jennings/Released)
Marks was only 26 years old when he took part in Operation Desert Storm. Since then, he had accumulated a total of 13th combat deployments with six in Afghanistan.
