Ketchikan resident trains to be Navy pilot

A Ketchikan native and 2008 Kayhi graduate is participating in a training program that transforms U.S. Navy officers into Navy pilots in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Ensign Mari Freitag, a student naval aviator with the “Rangers” Training Squadron that operates the T-6 Texan II aircraft, attended the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, studying political science and justice.
During her last semester, she took flying lessons and decided she wanted to be a pilot. She considered s