Mark Manney - Andover High School Hockey Head Coach, FMR- Air Force One Pilot

Mark Manney was born in Morris, Minnesota and after his family moved to Bemidji, Minnesota he played his first organized hockey game at age 13. He was a multi-sport athlete that choose to play hockey in high school in Moorhead, Minnesota. His high school hockey career was good enough to get an opportunity at the Air Force Academy. Life in the military can be hard but he used everything he learned as a young athlete to get through it. With a little luck and a lot of perseverance Mark Manney's Air Force career led him to fly the most powerful people around the world. He would eventually captain Air Force One. Listen as he tells his stories of flying President Bush into Bagdad for Thanksgiving in 2003 and into New York City after 9/11.