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10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit

Podcast 10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
Steve Davies
Interviews and anecdotes from military pilots and aircrew from across the globe. As the rule says, so long as it's 10 percent true, you're allowed to tell the s...
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  • OV-10 Vietnam, The Aggressors and the HAVE IDEA MiGs: Bat Press, EP65 P1
    Order BAOTD, today! https://www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/baotd Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh 0:00 Teaser 2:45 admin 3:35 dedication 4:55 “Bat” introduces himself 6:50 ROTC the beginning 10:11 From UPT to 1st assignment - USAFE Phantoms on nuke alert 16:15 to Vietnam flying the OV-10 25:30 FACing and living with the Army 30:30 learning to call in air strikes 33:55 how was the mission 41:05 FAC admin, the enemy and apocalypse now… 50:50 2 DFCs 54:25 A word from our sponsor 55:10 450 missions in a year - how do you process/deal with it? 58:05 PTSD?/collateral damage/“it’s just war”? 1:03:55 any special forces in the trunk? 1:06:50 Fear? 1:08:40 getting “short”…. 1:14:30 UPT - how to be top of the class 1:19:10 having to be convinced to fly fighters 1:21:25 the attachment to the army brothers in arms 1:24:15 coming back to the F-4 (McDill 1970) to teach at the RTU and the genesis of Aggressors 1:37:35 moving to Nellis 1:40:05 a phone call, a secret mission and a trip to “the Box” 1:44:40 how the US got the “Israeli Migs” 1:47:15 Yom Kippur war, the need for Phantoms, Operation Nickel Grass 1:52:45 HAVE Idea 1:56:10 “more like Forrest Gump than the Type-A fighter pilot” 1:59:30 how’s it feel to be at Area51?
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  • F-15E Panel Livestream - 10 Percent True EP64
    Order BAOTD, today! https://www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/baotd Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh
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  • F-4G Wild Weasel in Desert Storm. Spot Taber: EP63
    Pre-Order Be Afraid of the Dark (Part 1): www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/baotd Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh F-4G Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRMVYky1OszliqiThoDm53EUPLvZ-ZiD-&si=YC9w222rZD4AV63q 0:00 intro and teaser 1:25 getting “Geaseled” 10:45 getting acquainted with the Phantom 16:18 Hunter Killer combo Es & Gs 23:17 low level capabilities and limitations 29:30 some of that pilot shit and pilot/ewo shorthand 35:10 how capable were the older SAMS at low level? 40:45 compartmentalising roles or sponging it all up? 51:05 preparing mentally for deployment to war 58:25 arriving in theatre and initial brief? 1:05:20 1st combat mission 1:10:18 picture and weaselling in the weather 1:19:02 getting shot at/complacency and buffoonery 1:37:20 SA-3s and 6 1:40:20 spoiling for a fight and missions making the case for go pills and winding down 1:49:15 taking stock 1:53:22 looking back on the moment of complacency, lasting effects? 2:01:40 Air Liason Officer work with The Rangers and always trying to learn 2:06:50 winding up and 117 teaser
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  • F-14D in Iraqi Freedom: EP62 Hanky Cunningham
    Pre-Order Be Afraid of the Dark (Part 1): https://www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/baotd Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh Special thanks to Jim for his indexing:
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  • F-15E Strike Eagle Goes to War (Part 2): Alred & Turner
    Order BATOD, today! https://www.10percenttrue.com/product-page/be-afraid-of-the-dark-part-1 Support me with a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/10percenttrue Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh 10PCT #61 0:00 intro 3:00 Red Flag ‘77, the genesis of low level in the Strike Eagle 12:00 23 class A mishaps at Red Flag ‘77 - why? 13:50 what defined the role for the Strike Eagle, culture, politics, capabilities? 17:35 what difference would it have made to have C model pilots aboard in the early days? 20:35 Thumrait and tactics development 25:15 Fly Up manoeuvre and employing it 28:05 preparation for initial Desert Storm missions and hanging on the boom in a descent 32:50 why the variation in tactics during H2 attack and shift to SCUD hunting 38:00 mission planning, expectations and Gen Horner’s pulsating blood vessel! 45:30 mission anecdotes 49:10 intermission 49:55 mission anecdotes continue 50:55 “some interesting flights” 58:20 in search of Saddam 1:11:25 highway of death 1:19:05 battlefield tour with Buster Glosson……magic 1:21:35 no SAR for friends and frustration 1:30:54 effect on morale/attitude to task at hand? 1:32:35 loses and attrition 1:39:00 1st night air to air opportunities lost 1:45:38 did the lack of combat experience among initial cadre hurt performance? 1:49:00 afterwards 1:54:55 lessons learned? 2:10:11 initial strike eagle, phancy phantom or a leap forward 2:16:05 is there still a place for low altitude ? 2:19:15 signing off
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