StMU Research Scholars

Featuring Scholarly Research, Writing, and Media at St. Mary’s University

Destiny Lucero

I am a U.S. Navy veteran; and I am a credited Sophomore majoring in Psychology, and minoring in Music to pursue Music Therapy. While in the Navy, I flew on a four propeller jet plane, the P-3 Orion, as a radar operator. I had my own station next to the right wing of the aircraft, using radar, a camera, and magnetic sensors, for both land and sea operations. This is what excited me to write about the Enola Gay crew. I understand some, not all, of their feelings of being in the air and not knowing what could happen next.