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David Podurgiel knew at 8 years old that he wanted to be a towboat pilot. That was when he joined his friends in helping a neighbor, Mr. Craft, to tear down his garage. "He would tell us stories about the river," he said. The garage teardown took time because after seven days, the neighbor had to go back to work on the river, but that just gave Podurgiel, now 57, more time to think about those stories. After high school, Podurgiel joined the Navy. To his surprise, his first posting was at a submarine base in Scotland, where he was stationed on a tugboat, the U.S.S. Sau-gus. After serving six years in the Navy, he attended college for a couple of years, but his heart kept telling him to follow his dream of piloting in the commercial world. |