10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
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0:00 Intro
1:00 On today's menu…..
2:02 Timeframe for the move to VMFA-134 - swapping brand new Ds for old As and meeting the Reserves
10:51 Brown Hornets but not Aggressors
13:30 What sort of BFM competency can a reservist expect to maintain?
19:00 Sharing space with Topgun?
20:45 AF weapons instructors looking down on Marines, some tales…..
28:03 Elmendorf deployment - staying at the crackhouse, Eagle squadron arrogance and redressing the balance
4525 Lessons learned?
48:04 Comparing Eagle and Hornet in BVR
53:45 Secret squirrel AMRAAM stuff and access to materials
59:30 Prevalence of numbers over seat of the pants in the reserves?
1:03:40 APG-73 (D) vs APG-65 (A) practical differences?
1:10:20 AMRAAM multiple launch?
1:14:55 Sorting “the sort” and not wasting shots
1:19:02 More on cheating (yes you were taping the bit before about bending fins on bombs)
1:23:10 Does experience give you the ability to make the numbers without studying them and F3 strafe story.
1:29:22 Dropping bombs
1:38:28 A cautionary tale among the “fun”
1:42:54 Mortality coming more into the frame?
1:46:30 What threat was training (in the marines) focussed on?
1:50:20 Key West Det
1:54:20 Any learning from missile shots?
1:57:30 Nellis/Vegas burnout
1:59:20 Tax on family life/finding balance
2:10:00 Closing thoughts, keeping in contact, reunions and a possible return
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