Maj. Brian T. Cooper, commander of the 177th Fighter Wing Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, New Jersey Air National Guard, and Thomas J. Cooper, a retired Air Force captain, look over paperwork on the flightline at the Air Dominance Center in Savannah, Georgia, March 14, 2018. Brian commissioned in the U.S. Air Force in 2003, almost 40 years after his father Thomas, who commissioned in the Air Force in 1965. (U.S. Air National Guard illustration by Senior Airman Cristina J. Allen)