He is married to the former Joan Dickinson also of Broadview Heights. They have three children Bryan, Jason and Shannon and two grandchildren Gavin and Braxton.[3]
After graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force, completed his postgraduate degree, and was subsequently assigned to the USAF Tactical Air Warfare Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida as a flight test engineer for the BGM-109 Gryphon ground-launched cruise missile (GLCM) program. Selected for Undergraduate Navigator Training, he reported to flight training at Mather Air Force Base, California and received his wings as a USAF Navigator in 1989. He later flew the F-111 Aardvark fighter-bomber with the 20th Tactical Fighter Wing (20 TFW), later renamed the 20th Fighter Wing (20 FW) at RAF Upper Heyford, United Kingdom. He was selected for USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California in 1993 and graduated in 1994. As a military aviator, he has flown more than 30 types of aircraft, including the F-111, B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and the F-15E Strike Eagle, and has logged more than 3000 hours of flight in various jet aircraft. Good was selected and began training as a mission specialist by NASA in 2000. He is one of only two Air Force rated navigators who have been selected as astronauts (the other being Richard Mullane, selected in 1978). Both of these navigators were weapon systems officers.[3]