b'Mikes company, Dillon Precision Products, is a manufacturer of reloading presses and other reloading equipment. His vision and leadership revolutionized the ammunition reloading industry Our involvement with HonorHealthsand helped to make it what it is today.Military Partnership highlights aHe also proudly redesigned and manufactured passion of Mikes effortsthat ofthe M134 Mini Gun that is currently in service in United States and foreign military forces. Given supporting the military in their missionMikes love of country and the military forces that keep us safe each day, Carol and her family of protecting our country, said Carol. generously established the Michael J. Dillon Family Military Partnership Endowment in 2020, honoring his life and legacy.Unfortunately, at age 15, an illness requiredOur involvement with HonorHealths Military his kidney to be removed, which renderedPartnership highlights a passion of Mikes him ineligible to serve. Not easily deterred, heeffortsthat of supporting the military in their diligently applied to each branch, but was turnedmission of protecting our country, said Carol.away at every attempt. Ever resourceful, Mike found other avenues to satisfy his love for flying! His achievement of resurrecting the discarded Mini Gun by the Army as unreliable and He flew for TWA as a passionate aviator andineffective, brought back into service a weapon Second Officer for 13 years. He later made athat continues to save a great many lives. It name for himself as a writer and photographer forstands-to-reason that we support the Military Air Progress Magazine, a periodical that began inPartnership and the life-saving efforts of the the 1930s as an annual non-fiction supplement tomedics and first responders in the program.the Air Trails pulp fiction magazine.TRAUMA TRAINING SAVES LIVESHe is recognized as being the catalyst for theThe HonorHealth Military Partnership Program warbird restoration movement in the 1960s with hisbegan in 2004 with 24 Arizona Air National P-40 Warhawk. His forever love of flying continuedGuard medical personnel. Since then, the with the restoration of a TT-1 Pinto jet, three T-34Aprogram has trained more than 3,000 soldiers, military trainers and a UH-1H Huey helicopter. airmen and first responders in trauma and deployment skills at the 15,500 square foot training center on the HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center campus.Medical training is only available at a limited number of military facilitiesand to a limited number of personnel. Todays military branches simply cannot accommodate all who need to be trained.The U.S. Military has more than 73,000 active-duty enlisted medical personnel who must be ready to provide life-saving care to injured and ill service members during deployed operations, using their wartime medical skills. Recently, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found significant gaps in the militarys ability to sustain a ready enlisted medical workforce, due in part to lack of training 18 HonorHealth Foundation Magazine'