1.  As a Marine pilot, he endured training and conditioning thresholds that most NFL, NBA, NHL and major-league baseball players likely would fail.

2.  A Marine pilot and recruiter at the time, Norfleet had come to downtown Oklahoma City to talk to his boss.

3.  A Marine pilot in World War II before he became an astronaut and politician, Glenn appeared along with current senators united by their distinguished combat records.

4.  A Marine pilot was court-martialed but found not guilty after his jet sliced through a ski lift cable in Italy three years ago.

5.  But Shepard got the glory of the first American space flight, and Marine pilot John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut to make full Earth orbits.

6.  Early this year, a Marine pilot dropped an errant bomb on a civilian employee at the Vieques range, killing him.

7.  He went on to a distinguished career as a Marine pilot and later flew in Korea, where his plane was shot down.

8.  His father, a former Princeton University football star and Marine pilot in Vietnam, raised all three sons to be good athletes, Erik being no exception.

9.  On Monday, gusting winds kicked up a ferocious standstorm that limited visibility so much that Marine pilots seemed to vanish as they walked across the runway.

10.  Six months later, the two friends, Marine pilots together in Vietnam, became business partners.