Richmonder earns aviator wings
3/31/2016, 8:47 p.m.
Justin Roberts, a 2010 Richmond Community High School graduate, earned his aviator “Wings of Gold” after completing pilot training at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas.
Ensign Roberts received his wings in a ceremony March 18. He will train in the P3 Orion aircraft at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida.
The P3 Orion is a four-engine, turboprop anti- submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft.
Ensign Roberts is a 2014 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., where he majored in math.
As a youth, he earned scouting’s highest rank of Eagle Scout as a member of Fifth Street Baptist Church’s Boy Scout Troop 476.
He is the son of attorney Roscoe Roberts and Judge Angela Roberts of the Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.
Ensign Roberts’wife, 2nd Lt. Jazmind Roberts of Atlanta, a 2014 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, is in pilot training at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Okla. She will receive her wings on May 20.
