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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10 Percent True #15 Part 1 - Adam Robinson - RAF Tornado Navigator, Operation Desert Storm / Op Granby
10 Percent True #14 AMA - BC Thomas - SR-71 Blackbird Pilot
10 Percent True #14 P4 - BC Thomas - SR-71 Blackbird Pilot
10 Percent True #14 P3 - BC Thomas - SR-71 Blackbird Pilot
10 Percent True #14 P2 - BC Thomas - SR-71 Blackbird Pilot
10 Percent True #14 P1 - BC Thomas - SR-71 Blackbird Pilot
10 Percent True #13 P4 - Huggy Huggins, U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane Pilot
10 Percent True #13 P3 - "Huggy" Huggins - U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane Pilot
10 Percent True #13 P2 - "Huggy" Huggins - U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane Pilot
10 Percent True #13 P1 - "Huggy" Huggins - U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane Pilot
10 Percent True #12 P3 - Chris "Toppo" Topham, RAF Fighter Pilot and Stealth Fighter Exchange Pilot
10 Percent True #12 P2 - Chris Topham, Fighter Pilot and F-117 Stealth Fighter Exchange Pilot
10 Percent True #12 P1 - Chris Topham, Fighter Pilot and F-117 Stealth Fighter Exchange Pilot
10 Percent True #11 P3 - Dave "Mog" Morgan, Sea Harrier Falklands Fighter Pilot
10 Percent True #4 P3: "Hacker" Haskin, F-15E, T-38, U-2, MC-12 Fighter Pilot
10 Percent True #11 P2 - Dave "Mog" Morgan, Sea Harrier Falklands Fighter Pilot
10 Percent True #11 P1 - Dave "Mog" Morgan, Sea Harrier Falklands Fighter Pilot
10 Percent True #4 P2: "Hacker" Haskin, F-15E, T-38, U-2, MC-12 Fighter Pilot
10 Percent True #10: Puffy 12 Fighter Pilot Operation El Dorado Canyon
10 Percent True #4 P1: "Hacker" Haskin, F-15E, T-38, U-2, MC-12 Fighter Pilot
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