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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?