On July 6, 2018, BSNC shareholder Lieutenant Junior Grade (LTJG) Kya McAlister of Medford, Ore. received her Naval Aviation Wings of Gold from the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is a 2016 United States Naval Academy graduate and a 2012 graduate of Phoenix High School in Phoenix, Ore. LTJG McAlister will continue onto the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Fla. where she will receive training for the Boeing P-8 Poseidon.
LTJG McAlister grew up throughout rural Alaska (Golovin, Kaktovik, Kake, Nulato) where her parents were school teachers. She is the daughter of Debra and Mark McAlister and granddaughter of the late Morris J. Coffey and Clara Coffey of Stebbins, Alaska, Gary McAlister of Medford, Ore. and Linda and Ken Leak of Sparks, Nev.