Downhill skateboard phenom Anthony Clark is aiming high from here

U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Anthony E. Clark graduated August 30 from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Defense.

The announcement was terse, in a just-the-facts ma’am sort of way. Clark would probably appreciate that. When we interviewed him for a story last April, he told us, “I like to know how the world works,” and no-frills is indeed how the military world works.

Airman Clark completed an intensive, eight-week…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: Anthony Clark, talented local downhill skateboarder in April 2019; Inset: Clean-cut U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Anthony E. Clark; Below: Clark’s job announcement on Facebook.

“Downhill skateboarding takes a special kind of stupid. That is the most factual thing
I can tell you. It takes a special thing to know you are going to crash really hard going really fast and you are going to hurt really bad and then do it again…until you get really good.” —Anthony Clark

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