From MBAction.com
With over 30 years of history behind it, the Life Time Sea Otter Classic is now the biggest cycling festival in the world. Frank Yohannan is the man responsible for the start of the event, and he’s still running the Sea Otter operations today. A long-time veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Frank flew aerial combat missions during the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. He flew second seat in a two-man F-4 fighter jet in Cambodia, protecting the U.S. ground troops from the air. “We took enemy fire on every mission,” Frank recalls. “I flew 57 strike missions. A ‘strike’ is a combat sortie that encounters enemy opposition,” he told MBA. Fortunately, Frank’s jet never got shot down, and he never got injured by enemy fire. Frank flew in the F-4 jet in the 1970s and the early ’80s before being sent back to the U.S. on assignment to get an MBA degree at the University of Colorado. Frank then joined the Marine staff at the Pentagon, where he worked on their new microcomputer development program.