WTVG (Toledo) Reporter Michael Bratton is taking time off from his nightside reporting gig to learn about bombs. 

The 26-year-old Reporter will be at an Air Force training school in California learning about bombs. 

Bratton is a staff sergeant in the Ohio Air National Guard whose job as a munitions system journeyman is to help assemble, inspect, and test munitions (aka bombs) for the F-16 Fighting Falcon. He does this and his other military duties one weekend every month as part of the 180th Fighter Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard in Swanton. Add to this the occasional more lengthy requirements, such as his July training, which perhaps take him elsewhere.

It's a part-time job that’s been a lifetime calling for Bratton, who joined the Ohio Air National Guard in December, 2010, while still earning his bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism at Kent State University.

“It’s always been the plan,” he said. “I wanted to go to college, but I knew this was also something that I wanted to do ... and kind of needed to do.”

Although, if he wanted to learn about bombs, couldn't have just stayed in Toledo and watched Sinclair's WNWO? 

Please tip your servers on the way out....

H/T Toledo Blade