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Honor Society® member

Anthony Martinez-Burton

Sheetmetal Apprentice/ Classified Worker II at Graves Sheetmetal Kokomo, IN

  • history
  • Class of 2024
  • USA

Member since August 2023

About

I started life off as a farmer and livestock hand at 13 years old learning work ethic and perseverance. At 17 I enlisted in the Air Force and spent 8 years abroad working on various aircraft from F-16s and A-10s to KC-135s and C-5s. I seperated in 2017 and worked as a sheetmetal tech for AAR in Indianapolis working on planes for Delta and Southwest. I eventually took a job working for my wife's family at Graves Sheetmetal until I was laid off in 2021. I then began working on a career change, I had realized that I was tired of coming home greasy, oily, and smelly everyday and wanted to do something better. Im hoping to find enjoyment in a completely new field and learn more about history.

Education

  • indiana university-kokomo

    history and political science

    2021 – 2024

  • ivy tech community college

    metallurgical engineering

    2018 – 2021

  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautics University

    bachelor of science in aircraft technology

    2011 – 2012

  • Community College of The Air Force

    Aerospace Maintenance

    2010 – 2017

Goals and interests

Career goal

It is my intent to work in Museum curation or Artifact Preservation

Experience

  • Sheetmetal Apprentice/ Classified Worker II

    Graves Sheetmetal Kokomo, IN

    Dec 2018 – Nov 2021

  • Aircraft Structures

    AAR-ASI Indianapolis, Indiana

    Jul 2017 – Aug 2018

  • Aircraft Sheetmetal Technician

    Various Locations across the world including Mildenhall, UK, Osan South Korea, and Anchorage, Alaska.

    Jul 2009 – Jun 2017

Additional information

  • veterans of foreign wars (vfw)

  • Mission 22

  • disabled american veterans (dav)

  • Quilts of Valor

  • american legion