///////// NOTABLE NON PROS COURTESY OF CARISA KIMBRO
CHOOSING THE MILITARY
Her deployments have taken her around the world, but what centers Corrie Brock is her horse and her family, Kristopher Moore.
COURTESY OF CORRIE BROCK
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Whether it’s deployment to help fight fires at home or to assist on an overseas mission, training time takes on a new meaning for Non Pro riders like Corrie Brock and Carisa Kimbro, seen here piloting a Chinook assisting with 2015 Austin, Texas, fire-fighting efforts. COURTESY OF CORRIE BROCK
Kimbro was a longtime 4-H and FFA member with good grades but not a lot of scholarships. She saw the military as an opportunity to go to Texas A&M University. “I enlisted in the Texas Army National Guard in 1996 to help with college tuition and commissioned as an Army Aviation Officer through the ROTC program at Texas A&M through the Corps of Cadets,” she said. Kimbro earned a bachelor’s degree in animal science and a master’s in agricultural business. “I finished grad school and two months later went to Army flight school,” Kimbro said. “I was at flight school for a year and came back and started applying for jobs.” She discovered her studies in business, plus her time in flight school, made her a fit at Bell Helicopter in Hurst, Texas, where she has worked for 15 years. As a lieutenant colonel, she’s the Battalion Commander for the 2-149th General Support Aviation Battalion, which when not deployed in support of combat operations, provides the state of Texas with UH-60 Blackhawk and CH-47 Chinook assets, maintenance, ground support and air traffic control. “It’s been a busy year, we’ve supported COVID testing teams, continued border security operations, a tropical storm, a winter storm and continued to train,” said Kimbro, who lives in Burleson, Texas. “It’s like nothing I’ve seen before. At the end of the day, the domestic mission is what keeps me in. The wildfires, the floods—it’s Texans serving Texans. That’s the part that I love.” Like Kimbro, Brock initially saw military service as a means to an end. “When I came into the military back in 2000, the idea of going medical was
