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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?