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Published: Aug. 23, 2021, 10:18 a.m.

"Gator" is the current A-10 Demonstration pilot.\xa0He comes from a family of fighter pilots and his family is full of fighter pilots to this day.\xa0

His biological grandfather, Wayne, was an F-105 pilot and was shot down over Vietnam.\xa0The day he was shot down he was flying with the callsign Pistol 01.\xa0

The man he grew up knowing as his grandfather, Roger, was career fighter pilot and was shot down over Vietnam in an F-105.\xa0The day he was flying he was flying with the callsign Gator 01.\xa0

Wayne and Roger were squadron mates.\xa0\xa0It wasn't until years after the war had ended that Wayne was officially declared KIA.\xa0

Today Gator and his brother Jay "Pistol" Fullam are Hawg drivers as well as his sister-in-law.

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