Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Maringo, a native of Butler, serves as a naval aircrewman with the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadron 46, working with the Navy's cutting-edge maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash.

OAK HARBOR, Wash. — Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Maringo, a native of Butler, joined the Navy for educational opportunities and travel.

Now, seven years later, Maringo serves as a naval aircrewman with the “The Grey Knights” of Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadron 46, working with the Navy's cutting-edge maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash.

Maringo, a 2012 graduate of Knoch High School, with VP-46, a high-tech maritime patrol and reconnaissance squadron, is tasked with monitoring the world's oceans in the state-of-the-art P-8A Poseidon aircraft.

“I am basically responsible for tracking submarines,” said Maringo..

This is an excerpt from a story in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.