Chief Warrant Officer 5 Cliff Mead (foreground) of Copperas Cove, Texas, battalion maintenance officer and UH-60 Black Hawk pilot, 2nd Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Division-Center, talks to his son?s family in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, through video teleconference before his promotion ceremony Jan. 31. Mead?s son, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Chris Mead (far left on screen), an OH-58 Kiowa helicopter pilot, just recently graduated flight school, following in the footsteps of his father.