Family service comes full circle Published Jan. 27, 2011 By Staff Sgt. Roberto Modelo 911 AW/PA PITTSBURGH IAP ARS -- Military members account for a small fraction of the general population. The odds of two military members who are related and serving at the same time are small - not to mention one swearing in the other with an oath of enlistment or reenlistment. That is exactly what happened at the 911th Airlift Wing during the January Unit Training Assembly. Navy Lt. Sean Hovanec, an EP-3 pilot at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Wash., swore in his uncle, Tech. Sgt. Frank Coulter, a ground equipment technician with the 911th AW Maintenance Squadron, during a re-enlistment ceremony. "It was funny, I was born a few months before he went to basic training," said Lieutenant Hovanec. Tech. Sgt. Coulter's Air Force career began in May 1984 and has spanned every component of the Air Force - active, Guard, and Reserve. His traditional Reservist career with the 911th AW began in 1993 when he became an Air Reserve Technician. Lieutenant Hovanec entered the Navy in 2006 after completing his bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University. Originating from Indiana County, Pa., the lieutenant was back in the area to both visit family and reenlist his uncle. After the reenlistment ceremony, Lieutenant Hovanec handed his uncle a patch from his Navy unit and thanked him for his service. The reenlistment brought the family together, not only in a literal sense, but also brought home the idea of the larger military family - one generation to the next.