A Columbia native is taking to the skies as a U.S. Navy fighter pilot, serving aboard one of the Navy’s premier strike fighter squadrons.
Lt. David Cochrane, a 2011 graduate of Ben Lippen School, is assigned to the “Rough Raiders” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 125 at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California, where he flies the F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Cochrane, who joined the Navy nine years ago, said his work ethic was shaped long before he entered military service…