Courage does not mean the absence of fear, it means you have to feel the fear and go for it anyway,” - Carey Lohrenz

“Midwestern stoicism … that ability to just do the work with no fanfare” may be uniquely Wisconsin

I faced a lot of up and downs. But, I started my career in the cockpit and I ended my career in the cockpit. I wouldn't have it any other way,

When you hear these little comments, whether it's about your fingernail polish or your hair or what you're wearing at the time, it can feel like the slow drop of Chinese water torture, Lohrenz recalls. When you're there to fly this magnificent fighter jet, it chips away at you.