Seasprunk, E.J.

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Mark and Jackie Gravengood met E.J. when he was a small boy when they were forced down during a storm near his home in Twillingate, in rural Florida. They gave E.J. his first plane ride and he decided then and there he wanted to be a pilot.

E.J. Seasprunk later graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1983, and later he participated in the Persian Gulf War where he shot down three MIGs. At that time he was a Major.

As he says himself "The E and the J don’t stand for nothin’."^Roc2-6 His father, a teppentine worker (teppentine is the local Florida dialect for turpentine ^Roc2-6), had run off before he was born. His mother left for better work in Mobile, but never returned. Without any other family, he was raised by Brother Erasmus and his wife Ethylene Green.