By Lt. Cmdr. David Pearce, a 1988 graduate of Los Altos High School, resigned from the U.S. Navy in June to join JetBlue Airways.

He served for more than nine years as a naval aviator. He flew the E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning/command and control aircraft and the T-2C Buckeye training jet, accumulating 3,000 flight hours, nine combat missions and 238 carrier arrested landings.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathaniel K. Roesler, a 2000 graduate of Los Altos High School, recently completed the Navy Nuclear Power Training Unit course at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command, Goose Creek, S.C.