Former Navy football player Cmdr. Matt Kaslik led the Blue Angels in Annapolis on Thursday. Kaslik graduated from the Naval Academy in 1995 with a Bachelors of Science in Oceanography and has served in the military ever since.
The Blue Angels are the United States Navy’s flight squadron with pilots from the Navy and Marine Corps. This group was created in 1946, post-World War II. Ever since then they have participated in a number of events, including flyovers in much of the country’s major sporting events.
Kaslik was named the executive flying officer of the Blue Angels in 2016.