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...
OV-10 Vietnam, The Aggressors and the HAVE IDEA MiGs: Bat Press, EP65 P1
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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
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2:00:54
F-4G Wild Weasel in Desert Storm. Spot Taber: EP63
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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
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F-15E Strike Eagle Goes to War (Part 2): Alred & Turner
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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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