SrA Gardner is a member in the United States Air Force’s F-35A Lightning II Heritage Flight Team, 56th Fighter Wing, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. As an F-35A Heritage Flight team member, he is responsible for representing Air Education and Training Command, Air Combat Command, United States Air Force, Department of Defense, and the United States of America at 16 air shows annually. He is one of sixteen enlisted members of the F-35A Heritage Flight Team and performs maintenance actions and inspections on the pilot’s flight equipment. SrA Gardner ensures Heritage Flight pilots are equipped with a proper and operational flight equipment in order to execute their mission of showcasing the Air Force’s premier fifth-generation aircraft for millions of spectators each year.

SrA Gardner was born in Bountiful, UT. He graduated from Bountiful High School, Bountiful, Utah in 2012. He began Air Force Basic Military Training in January of 2013. He attended Technical Training at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, Texas to become an Aircrew Flight Equipment technician. After graduating as a distinguished graduate, he was assigned to Luke AFB, AZ.


EDUCATION
2013 Aircrew Flight Equipment Technical Training School, Sheppard AFB, Texas

ASSIGNMENTS
2013-Present Aircrew Flight Equipment Journeyman, 56th Operations Support Squadron, Luke AFB, AZ

MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS
Air Force Achievement Medal
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with oak leave cluster
AF Good Conduct Medal
National Defense Service Medal
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal
Basic Military Training Honor Graduate

EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION
Airman Basic 29 January 2013
Airman 29 July 2013
Airman 1st Class 29 May 2014
Senior Airman 29 July 2015

(Current as of January 4, 2017)