Navigating Faith and Flight

A Florida native, Ken Watts received a BSEE from Florida Institute of Technology and was commissioned a Marine Corps 2nd Lieutenant in 1971. After designation as a Naval Flight Officer (NFO), from 1972 to 1975, he flew the EA-6A (2-seat Intruder) as an Electronic Countermeasures Officer (ECMO), and the RF-4B (Phantom-II) as a Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO). He flew over 100 EA-6A missions from the aircraft carriers USS Midway and USS Coral Sea, to include missions over Vietnam. Attending the Naval Postgraduate School, Ken received a MSEE in 1977 and subsequently served as a flight test engineer. After leaving Marine Corps active duty in 1981, Ken served in the Marines Corps reserve until retiring in 2001 with the rank of Colonel. In 1981, he began an engineering career in the aerospace-defense industry in Huntsville, AL, retiring in 2013 from Raytheon Company. Ken has been married to his wife Lou for 52 years, and they have 2 sons and 5 grandchildren. With tactical aviation experience and technical engineering experience, and as a lifelong Christian, at age 74, Ken embarked on an effort to write a novel he characterizes as being in the Spiritual Techno-Thriller genre. His novel, Neurifact, features a tactical carrier aviation thread and a technical AI/Neuro-engineering thread that combine to support a spiritual thread where an F-35C pilot experiences spiritually sourced sudden impulses that intercede in his decisioning and maneuvering processes. Ken hopes readers will find Neurifact intriguing and perhaps inspiring. Semper Fi!