Story by Austen McClain | Naval Education and Training Command | 12.29.2025
Brothers Ensign Zachary Melvin, a prior-enlisted Sailor, and Ensign Samuel Melvin, a former civilian business analyst, commissioned together at Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, were selected as Naval Flight Officers in the same class, and were sworn in by their father, Cmdr. Eric Melvin, before reporting to Naval Aviation Schools Command in Pensacola, Florida....
