OV-10 Vietnam, The Aggressors and the HAVE IDEA MiGs: Bat Press, EP65 P1 from 10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit

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Steve Davies

OV-10 Vietnam, The Aggressors and the HAVE IDEA MiGs: Bat Press, EP65 P1

2 hour 2 minutes Posted Nov 30, 2024 at 8:00 am.

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dedication

“Bat” introduces himself

ROTC the beginning

From UPT to 1st assignment USAFE Phantoms on nuke alert

to Vietnam flying the OV-10

FACing and living with the Army

learning to call in air strikes

how was the mission

FAC admin, the enemy and apocalypse now…

2 DFCs

A word from our sponsor

450 missions in a year how do you process/deal with it?

PTSD?/collateral damage/“it’s just war”?

any special forces in the trunk?

Fear?

getting “short”….

UPT how to be top of the class

having to be convinced to fly fighters

the attachment to the army brothers in arms

coming back to the F-4 (McDill 1970) to teach at the RTU and the genesis of Aggressors

moving to Nellis

a phone call, a secret mission and a trip to “the Box”

how the US got the “Israeli Migs”

Yom Kippur war, the need for Phantoms, Operation Nickel Grass

HAVE Idea

“more like Forrest Gump than the Type-A fighter pilot”

how’s it feel to be at Area51?

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