Biography

Staff Sergeant Nathanael Maloney is a Loadmaster in the 118th Airlift Squadron. He has been in the Air National Guard for 12 years, starting out as a comm/nav avionics technician in the 103rd Maintenance Squadron. He then transferred to the 155th Maintenance squadron in Lincoln, NE when his wife joined active duty. When it was time to move back home to Connecticut, he transferred to 58th Aerial Port Squadron at Westover Air Reserve Base, MA. Cross-training to become an Aerial Transportation Journeyman. After about four years there, and a deployment, he returned to the CTANG joining the 103rd Logistics Readiness Squadron. Ultimately cross-training to his third career field to become a loadmaster on the C-130H. Apart from his military career he is a dad to two kids with a third soon to be born. He also runs a woodworking business on the side creating anything from cutting boards to patch boards to display patch collections. For his civilian job, he is an avionics technician at Bombardier Inc. One of his favorite books is Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. He enjoys listing to the Jocko Podcast as well as Mike Rowe's podcast called "The Way I heard it". One of his life's mottos he learned from his childhood Tae Kwon Do instructor is, "The biggest room, is the room for improvement." Lastly his Favorite quote is from Teddy Roosevelt, "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."