Alabama NewsCenter — ‘He’s an Army Aviation legend’: Chinook instructor pilot retires from federal service at Alabama’s Fort Novosel

By: Kelly Morris / Army Aviation Center of Excellence

It is said that students are often just one encouraging instructor away from being a success story.

For many Chinook pilots over the past 20 years, that instructor was Department of the Army Civilian Charles Mineo, a retired chief warrant officer 4, who served during Desert Storm.

Upon his recent flight in the Chinook marking his 10,000th incident-free flying hour, the well-known instructor pilot at Alabama’s Fort Novosel‘s Knox Army Heliport, who is often described as “unorthodox” in his methods, stepped away from the flight line after 19 years of heartfelt teaching and mentoring.

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