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"He'll encourage anyone. He sees their potential and he tells them, 'You would be good in this.' His brother-in-law is in the Air National Guard in Buffalo. He encouraged him, and now he's going to pilot training in Buffalo. Through Tim he saw how far you can go. ... He says that anyone who wears this uniform has to be proud. As Tim said, too, 'Look at all the young men who died for us so we could have the freedoms that we have, and I want to do that for the next generation, so that we can pass these freedoms along.'"
Amy Tarchick, his mother
"When I graduated from Youngstown State, Tim was already in the military. He was working out of Youngstown, I think at that time as a loadmaster. He said: 'You've got to come check this out. I get to go to MacDill [Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.] on the weekends. We're going to San Antonio.' I said, 'Maybe I'll do it when I get out of school.' When I got out of college I stopped in over there. ... His hard work and determination have paid off. They don't just hand out those positions. He's earned every bit of it."
Scott Winter, friend since junior high. Winter is a pilot in the Air Force Reserve at Dobbins Air Force Base in Georgia and for American Airlines out of Miami International Airport.