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Scramble! ALARM RINGS

First thing that's in my head is run.

Breaking news, Typhoon jets have been scrambled...

Your adrenaline's going. You're acting on instinct.

We're not sure what it is.

It could be an imminent threat, like a foreign jet in our airspace.

It can be a matter of life of death.

The RAF is on high alert.

We know something is going to happen in the next 24 hours.

Buzzard Tower, can I radio check?

There's a potential ISIS safe house.

Everything that's happening with Russia and Ukraine,

it's like a tinder box.

You're doing an important role protecting from Vladi the Baddie.

Here we go.

Whoa. Holy shit.

With conflict in Europe...

..and the Middle East...

..British war planes are poised to face any threat.

ID - Russian aircraft.

You don't want to fire on it

and end up starting World War III.

Good morning, cleared for take-off. Surface wind 170, 11.

From my bedroom window I've got a perfect view of

the runway.

I'm very particular about

not having my pants on the washing line

in the garden in the summer,

because I just don't want pilots to see my pants.

Who wouldn't love it? Aircraft 24/7, it's great.

RAF Coningsby is one of the UK's two Typhoon air bases...

Morning, Sir. Thank you.

..and home to the toughest pilot training course in

the world, with a famous Hollywood link.

Top Gun is an easy frame of reference for people, right?

Because everyone's seen the movie.

Top Gun is effectively just

the US Navy's weapons instructor school.

But their course is only, like, three months long,

whereas ours is nine months long.

Some may say ours is harder, but I've not done the other course.

I'm Buzz.

I'm a Typhoon pilot currently doing

the Qualified Weapons Instructor course.

I grew up in South London,

not far from Biggin Hill Airport,

which used to be a big RAF base during

the Second World War.

It definitely never even crossed my mind that that was something

I might end up doing.

This year, Buzz is one of just nine hand-picked pilots vying

to become a Qualified Weapons Instructor.

Pass, and he'll become a Top Gun

and one of just nine on the front line.

But 25% of the pilots who attempt this course, fail.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to QWIC 16.

The Qualified Weapons Instructor Course is pretty much

the pinnacle of tactical operations in fast jets.

It's going to be a tough nine months,

clearly not everyone gets through,

but trust me, at the end of the day, it is going to be worth it

and the rest of your careers will not be the same.

Every front line squadron will have

a Qualified Weapons Instructor.

The graduates of our course have to be ready to lead

the squadron into war if that's required.

And as a result, they're kind of at the cutting edge

of the UK tactical capabilities.

Today we're going to be looking at your ability to plan,

and to execute a valid strafe attack.

We're going to actually load the guns in the aircraft,

dive at the ground and shoot the big circular target.

Typhoon jets use modern missiles

and bombs to take out targets with pinpoint precision.

In a test of raw skill,

Buzz is being asked to hit a target using only

the Typhoon's machine gun,

without any help from the onboard targeting computer.

We're here, to learn how to master all of those disciplines,

to an expert level.

If we run out of bombs,

if we run out of air-to-surface missiles

and your life is in the balance,

ultimately the gun might be the only thing you have left.

The course is seen as very prestigious, internationally.

So you can't really understate its value,

to the RAF and I guess, frankly, to the country.

If we go to war tomorrow,

I definitely want to be on the front line leading

the defence of the nation. Hence why I'm on this course.

ALARM WAILS

Breaking news, Typhoon jets have been scrambled to respond

to what they are calling an unidentified aircraft

approaching the United Kingdom.

Above the North Sea,

RAF Typhoons have intercepted

a Russian long-range strategic bomber...

..and escorted it away from UK airspace.

Coningsby is home to a Quick Reaction Alert facility,

where jets scramble in response

to any airborne threat coming close to the UK.

It is a 24/7 duty.

With threats from Russian incursions growing,

new personnel are regularly drafted into the QRA team.

The pilots wanna get going in that aircraft as soon as possible.

Q shout could happen at any point,

during the time you are down there, OK?

What's the bleed-air signal?

That is palm up

and a fist just coming into it, right there. Yeah? Yeah.

I'm Beth. I'm an aircraft mechanic with

the Typhoon at RAF Coningsby.

My dad's a mechanic. My grandads a mechanic.

But I wanted to do something a little bit bigger.

I thought, "OK, Typhoon."

Four and a half years later, here I am.

Will a man be aboard the right-hand chock,

as you would on a normal power check? Yes.

QRA is Quick Reaction Alert.

So, we get told there's something coming.

Happy with that? Yep. Good.

There's two kind of potential threats that we deal with.

You've got people like the Russians coming in,

and also, anything that could be like a 9/11.

We've got to be ready for anything.

For the next seven days,

22-year-old Beth is responsible for defending

the UK around the clock...

..by helping to scramble Typhoon jets.

Hi. Hello. Hiya, you all right?

QRA is definitely what I want to do as a career,

and I've never done it before. So, it is really nerve-racking.

I'm just about to go in for the first one.

But what an experience, though?

Yeah, if something happens.

Well, I kind of hope something does.

That makes it a bit more interesting, doesn't it?

Yeah, I guess you could see it like that!

Right, OK, so we've got one of our QRA jets behind us here,

it is fully armed, ready to go.

If the alarm sounds,

Beth has just minutes to power up

and launch the Typhoons,

a process that normally takes over half an hour.

Soon as the buzzer goes,

these doors are going to start opening,

you'll be running out of the Q building,

in through here and doing your stuff

to get this jet launched as quickly as possible.

There is a reason we get the jets up within a set time.

And that's because the ramifications

of those jets not going up could be quite serious.

So, this is my room.

Got a bedside table and a couple of drawers.

We get a little bit of normal daylight, which is quite nice.

Am I allowed to see the teddy? Yeah.

Oh, cute. Which at 22 may be a bit weird,

but it's nice to have something that reminds you of home.

I always knew that being a mechanic,

it was a very male-dominated area.

There's five lasses on my squadron, engineering-wise.

So, there isn't a lot of us.

Ear defenders. That's it. Pop them in.

Sweet, right.

Cheers, Dicko.

I just turn around to the lads, I'm like,

"Look, don't treat me as a lass. Treat me as one of the lads."

And they do.

At the end of the day I am just here doing my job, you know?

My job's exactly the same as theirs,

there's no reason why, as a female,

I can't do it as good as them, if not better.

As far as the unpredictability of when that bell might go off,

you know it's a possibility.

But if you constantly are there, like,

"Is it going to go? Is it going to go? Is it going to go?"

you're not going to be able to go to sleep.

But if it goes off, it goes off - and just go for it.

Scramble. ALARM RINGS

Just a few hours into Beth's first shift,

Coningsby's Quick Reaction Alert is activated.

First thing that's in my head is,

"Fuck!

"Run!"

Two pilots have just minutes to get into the air.

Phantom one, ready.

It can be a matter of life or death.

RAF Coningsby's Quick Reaction Alert has been activated.

We're not sure what it is.

It could be an imminent threat, like a foreign jet in our airspace.

22-year-old engineer Beth

has just minutes to get Typhoon jets in the air.

It's like, right, OK. Doors are open, right? Get to the stairs.

Pilot's in. What do I do next?

Engine.

With a potential threat to the UK, there can be no delays.

OK, I can hear engine one spooling up.

Right, get that power lead out, get that chock out.

Run. You need to get that jet in the air as soon as you can.

My heart's still going, like, ten to the dozen,

but, yeah, so it went all right, it's fair enough.

Nothing really went wrong,

but shocked me when the bell went off.

Beth and the team won't know what the scramble was

for until the pilot gets back,

but she's already made an impression on her superiors.

Pretty good for a first go, yeah.

When you get that adrenaline running to go

and do the see-off,

it's really important that we know where we

need to be around the aircraft,

there's a lot of dangerous areas... So, it was pretty good.

It's been a successful first launch of QRA,

but Beth still has six days before she can leave.

How did it go?

Yeah, it was all right, we had one live shout go.

Oh, wow.

The point of QRA is to make it a muscle memory,

so when that bell does go, you know that you can do it,

because you have it drilled into you.

Did you hit all your time limits?

Yeah, it went up in the time so that was all right,

and watching it kind of go vertical, that was good.

Oh, nice one. Fab job.

I think the thing I learnt from my first

QRA scramble was, have confidence in myself.

Everyone self-doubts.

But when you have that moment where it's like,

actually I did that...

..it does a hell of a lot for your self-esteem.

This is Holbeach Tower...

..first customer's inbound.

Training to become an RAF Top Gun on

the Qualified Weapons Instructor course,

Buzz must try to manually hit a five-metre target

with bullets fired from the Typhoon's machine gun,

whilst flying at just under the speed of sound.

Employing Typhoon's in-built 27mm cannon

which you're then going to point at the ground

and shoot while you're travelling at 500mph,

it can become dangerous very, very quickly.

Visual.

We are going to try and make sure that my rounds

impact the target at a very specific time, down to a second,

with my QI instructor at the back watching every move.

No pressure.

Here he comes. Yeah, he's through the clouds, look. He's levelling off.

I'm going to pull the trigger at 58 seconds,

which accounts for the two seconds it's going to take

for the round to leave the gun and hit the target.

So that it hits the target at three o'clock.

And he hit the target.

Copied, direct hit.

It's complicated,

but that's why we're trying to make it as difficult as possible,

so that we can do this with absolute precision.

With the first run successful...

..Buzz must now increase his height, to make hitting

the target even harder.

The further away we are,

gravity's going to have a significant effect.

The wind is going to have a significant effect as well.

You only have a certain number of rounds,

and you can only fire in very short bursts.

If we have to go and do this for real and someone,

somewhere really, really needs to strafe a target,

the gun is hard to hide from.

Hitting the target is a great feeling,

it's really satisfying,

especially when you've got a direct hit.

Because you can't always see it from the jet.

There's nothing like seeing a fast jet doing its stuff.

Buzz's performance will be analysed in detail.

On the elite weapons instructor course,

even small errors could prevent him from passing.

I've made a lot of sacrifices to be here wearing this uniform,

flying that jet, for a reason.

I think that I can do a good thing in a Typhoon.

I can be a force of good.

All in all, not a terrible day. So, onwards.

OK, first thing we'll do is we'll watch.

Decent, really solid start,

bang on the middle of the target circles.

So nice tracking initially, so 11 rounds.

Always roll out four degrees below the target, then assess.

Roger. Yeah, cool. Thanks.

Trips like today are very much the first step,

he has got a lot more coming.

It's impossible to put your finger on it,

whether or not someone is going to get through or not.

It totally depends on how they deal with

the mounting pressure, which is significant.

My name is Gouldy

and I run the

Qualified Weapons Instructor course on 29 Squadron.

We've seen plenty of people fail in the past.

It's a standard that we're not going to flex on,

so if people don't make that standard,

then they won't pass, unfortunately.

The course has always had a reputation that it's challenging,

but that's certainly not a bad thing.

If we're expecting them to be mission commanders in

an incredibly stressful, dangerous world,

then it's only right that they should be trained and tested.

Pilots regularly failing to keep up with

the relentless pace

and exacting standards, face being cut.

There are no second chances.

Buzz's one shot now hinges on a challenge that ramps up

the difficulty,

designed to push him to the limit of his piloting ability.

This is going to be my one v one combat phase.

We are both in Typhoons fighting our best game plan.

We're going to have a hard deck today of 5,000 feet,

so that hard deck is going to be simulating the ground.

If you go spearing though it,

then we'll treat you as dead. I will be dash one today.

Sir, you're going to be dash two.

Our aim is going to be kill and survive.

Gouldy has challenged Buzz to a dogfight,

with revised rules.

Buzz has just one minute

to manoeuvre his jet behind Gouldy's

and lock-on his heat-seeking missiles,

half the time pilots are normally allowed.

The only rule is for safety,

no jet can drop below 5,000 feet, a simulated ground level.

Any questions on what we're go and do today?

No questions. Sweet. I'll see you at the jet.

Don't embarrass myself, that's the plan.

There is always pressure,

especially when you're flying OC QWIC,

because ultimately, he's the one who makes

the decision on whether or not you make the grade on the course.

With under a minute to complete the challenge,

the fight begins with Buzz making

the first move towards Gouldy's jet.

The entire one v one basic fight manoeuvres phase is all about,

get behind the other guy and shoot him.

This is a jet that can pull and sustain 9G.

There's a lot of physical demands put on your body.

I mean, it hurts at the best of times.

For fast-jet pilots,

there's not a course that tests you any more than this.

I can see why Buzz has been selected.

He's very confident, he's very enthusiastic,

but he's lacking in experience.

Right, let's try something.

To shake Buzz off,

Gouldy dramatically reduces his speed

and begins circling towards the ground.

Eager to stay on his tail, Buzz immediately follows,

but both jets are now heading towards base height.

He is an outstanding operator.

He's seen every possible mistake that

everyone could possibly make.

So, he's sees it happening before it has even happened.

We're spiralling lower and lower.

Almost managed to get my missile locked on

and in a few more seconds I should have him.

It's a single-seat jet, so you're the only person in it.

No-one's going to stop you making a mistake that's

going to get you or somebody else killed.

ALARM BEEPS

ALARM BEEPS

Circling down towards the North Sea,

Typhoon pilot Buzz is closing in on RAF Top Gun instructor Gouldy

in a one-on-one dogfight.

Flying really, really close to the deck is risky,

but he's definitely doing it try and lure me down there.

So I'm just focusing on getting him in range,

locking my weapons onto his jet

and getting the shot away as soon as I can.

The blood is doing its very best

to pull itself out of your brain, and down into your feet.

All of the kit is squeezing your body,

to try and force that blood back up

so you don't lose consciousness and then crash into the ground.

Turning tightly,

Buzz is almost in range to get

a missile lock on Gouldy's jet within the time limit.

ALARM BEEPS

To get a missile lock on Gouldy,

Buzz has gone lower than base height,

breaking the rules of the test.

Buzz managed to get a lock onto me,

but in the real world you can't fire

a missile if you've crashed into the ground.

The standards are high on the course.

You have to meet the standard. But if you don't,

there isn't an infinite amount of slack.

Flying the Typhoon is expensive,

so you can't keep going up and getting it wrong.

It's no good graduating someone

who's competent when things are easy.

You have got to see how they react to the pressure and the stress

because that is the kind of stress

that there could be like on operations.

What a fucking dickhead.

As with every flight,

trainee performances are scrutinised...

Good days and bad days, and today was a bad day.

..with instructors often brutal in their assessment.

So clearly you are a natural instinctive pilot

definitely very talented, but I think sometimes

that fight recognition wasn't necessarily there,

and I think your BFM will come

a long way if you get your head in the books

looking at those academic pictures and how you define everything.

Sometimes it might come across like I'm being harsh,

but it's an incredibly challenging course.

There's a lot of pressure on people,

they need to be incredibly resilient to be able to deal with it.

Buzz, he's got to be able to understand

and comprehend all of the disciplines.

So a lot's riding on it.

He's got to be able to get through it

or he doesn't pass the course.

Nearly all of Coningsby's 3,000 personnel are

focused on helping Typhoon squadrons train

and deploy to the front line.

We're looking for leaks on the mask.

I know it's not comfortable, so are you ready?

Three, two, one, go.

HIGH-PITCHED WHISTLING

Eyes popped out my head, yep. THEY LAUGH

Like all parts of Britain's Armed Forces,

pressure is mounting on the RAF to recruit more people.

Coningsby's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

flies at airshows across the UK,

to attract the next generation of pilots and aircrews.

With the war in Ukraine showing no sign of abating,

the Middle East is also becoming more destabilised by the day,

and the RAF need to recruit more people

to ensure we're ready to respond to any escalation.

My name's Simon Jessett,

everybody calls me Jesse

and I'm on the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

So, let's have a physical look

at things we spoke about in the classroom, then -

the hydraulic system and, more specifically, the undercarriage.

It's a fucking beast, isn't it?

Before this year's display season begins,

Jesse must learn to pilot a Hurricane from World War II.

Widely regarded as the Air Force's toughest plane to fly.

So, if you want to jump up and pop yourself into the cockpit.

In my career, I've been very lucky.

Go on, give it some beans, mate.

Started on the Tucano, flew the Hawk.

Then the Harrier,

but now I think inspiring

the next generation is genuinely really important

and what pilot wouldn't give their eye teeth to fly a warbird.

Here we are. The clutch, the booster, start and your magneto.

Showing Jesse the ropes is the squadron boss, Suggs.

Ultimately, you need to bring that aeroplane home safely.

We're not playing around now. He's still got a lot to do,

a lot to learn and a lot to prove.

And if any time that light comes on,

that is one of the emergency scenarios where

the decision you're making is what is most survivable.

Typically for me, abandoning would come down to either

I'm on fire... Yep. ..I've lost control of the aeroplane,

or I cannot make a safe landing. Yep. All right?

And if anyone tells you that they enjoyed their first

Hurricane trip, you've just met a liar.

We always say that getting airborne is optional,

bringing them back is not.

Before Jesse can perform in front of the public...

..he must first pass a flying test

to prove he can handle the Hurricane, safely.

Well, this is not looking good, is it? No.

But there's an immediate problem with the World War II relic.

It would seem the generator is not doing what it should.

What's happened, mate? Well, the team are working on it now,

but the volts was down. So, yeah, they're going to have a look,

do a bit of diagnostics and hopefully sprinkle some fairy magic

on it and get it back serviceable again.

At least there's plenty of room to work.

Sometimes, things like this happen where things just don't work.

Older aeroplanes tend to have that problem a bit more,

but I think it's just cos it's old and temperamental.

PHONE RINGS

Afternoon, medical centre AS1 Murgatroyd speaking.

Would you like a cookie? I'm good, thank you.

Would you like a cookie?

And then lowest line you can from right to left.

Erm... X-O...

Oh, my. OK.

As a main operational air base,

personnel at Coningsby work shifts of up to 24 hours.

It's now half past six.

So we've pretty much been planning for 11 hours.

Nearing the end of his training course to become

an RAF Top Gun,

fighter pilot Buzz has been put in charge of a huge military exercise.

This will be their biggest test, it's an incredible ask,

it's a 48-hour endeavour.

They've got a lot of problems to solve in

a very limited timeframe.

Buzz is the mission commander,

so he's ultimately responsible for all of it.

My job is assess him as we go.

Is this the first meal of the day?

I've had a Twirl and a lot of coffee.

Known as Storm Warrior,

the exercise replicates a wartime scenario.

Buzz must lead a group of Typhoons to protect

a large RAF cargo plane as it drops-off troops.

Standing in the way will be ground

and air defences that Buzz must react to in real time.

To pass, the troops must be landed safely,

and the Typhoons must avoid being shot down.

I'm Buzz, I'm going to be Warlord one,

and the MC as well.

Big thing I want today is just to sprint early on,

so that we can get ourselves to a safe

and executable primary game plan. Try and enjoy it,

it should be a good day, I'm going to try and have fun.

Any questions for me? See you in an hour.

It's coming up on nearly ten years in the RAF this summer,

which is pretty mad now that I think about it.

But, yeah, I think anyone here wearing one

of these flying suits would be lying

if they said today wasn't going to be brutal.

This will be the biggest test of Buzz's career.

Pass and he will make it as an RAF Top Gun.

Fail and the last few months will be for nothing.

A lot of stuff going on. A lot of scrutiny, a lot of pressure,

but in reality, about to go flying

with, like, half-a-billion pounds' worth of assets.

So if I didn't fucking love this shit, I wouldn't be here.

The training is not a walk in the park.

You know, people don't pass it.

You've got a lot of pressure, so we've just got to do our best.

Big day today, first time getting into a Hurricane.

At Coningsby's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight,

the World War II Hurricane has been fixed,

and Jesse is ready for his first test flight.

My first deployment was back in 1995,

so I was 23, flying a Harrier over the Balkans.

Ran the engine up to full power and it just went bang.

And so I ejected and,

yeah, that is a painful, violent experience.

I'm not sure who is more nervous, me or him, to be honest.

I mean, there's risk inherent in any flying, right?

Any gross mishandling on my part can lead to a bad outcome.

You don't apply for this job unless you've

rationalised that you're OK with that.

I've lost friends in peacetime training.

It's never far away in this game.

To prove he's safe to perform at airshows,

Jesse needs to fly a smooth circuit around the airfield

and land without incident.

You're flying an 80-year aeroplane with

an 80-year engine. You have to be thinking,

what would I do if that stopped?

Until it's done and you've got her down in one piece,

you know, all of those human natural doubts are there.

Roger, got that.

OK, once he's finished this manoeuvre,

I want to terminate this display, for him to land.

Landing a Hurricane is the most dangerous part of the test,

because visibility in the cockpit is limited.

OK. So, here we go.

Gear flap.

Looks a bit shallow to me.

Hold it off, mate, hold it off, hold it off, hold it off.

OK.

Good effort.

Hey, for a first Hurricane landing - well done. Thanks, mate.

Let's call it a day at that.

If you can taxi back to BBMF, please.

OK.

That is like putting a harness on an angry lion

and then stabbing it in the backside with

a rusty syringe and then trying to keep hold if it.

Good fun, incredible.

Well done, mate. You OK?

Thanks, mate.

Well done. There you go. Cool. Newest Hurricane pilot.

Exercise Storm Warrior is about to begin.

Do this correctly

and Buzz will qualify as a weapons instructor,

making him an RAF Top Gun.

Fail, and the last nine months could be for nothing.

Buzz must protect a huge RAF A400 transport plane,

code named Dreadnaught.

As it drops off a platoon of troops,

Typhoons will keep an eye out for threats both on

the ground or in the air.

We have a plan to protect the A400,

which is always going to be the most vulnerable asset

just because it's a really big target,

big radar cross section, and it moves slowly,

and it can't really defend itself.

Good job, well spotted.

Buzz's team have spotted a missile site,

camouflaged on the ground.

I think one of the biggest characteristics

of anyone who finds themselves in this job...

..is the ability to make difficult decisions,

and make them quickly, with a lot of pressure.

And that decision might be dropping a bomb.

Exercises like this,

we use digital systems in our cockpit

to simulate dropping real bombs.

So we're not actually blowing things up for real,

but our targeting

and firing procedures are all as they would be

if we were dropping live weapons.

Under Buzz's orders,

the targeting computer records a direct hit

and the missile launcher is eliminated.

The transport plane can now land safely

and off-load the platoon of troops.

Two enemy jets have just appeared on the radar screens of the Typhoons.

All of a sudden, our radars pick up two new aircraft.

Ones that we weren't expecting to see.

They're F-35s who today are playing the role of the enemy.

With the transport plane still off-loading troops,

and his fuel levels low,

Buzz faces a critical decision about the F-35s.

Instead of re-fuelling, Buzz decides to lead the attack.

I'm low on fuel, but I know if I don't do something

about this now, then the A400 on the ground

won't be able to take-off safely.

So I need to kill both of those F-35s.

The F-35 is a brand-new aircraft...

..a fifth-generation fighter, compared to Typhoon, which is

a little bit older.

It can take a lot of skill in an older aircraft to fight

an F-35.

What it really comes down to is your own individual skill

versus the skills of the other pilot.

One of the F-35's has been taken out of the game.

As the transport plane takes off, time is running out.

Buzz must eliminate the last F-35 before it gets too close.

Ultimately, it is life and death.

He's doing his very best now to try to get away,

but I've done a really good job to put a lot of pressure on him.

And then we'll kill him.

It feels great to come out on top.

This is what we train for, this is what it's all about,

its why we're here.

Killing the bad guy, home for tea and medals.

With barely any fuel left, Buzz has achieved every objective.

All that stands between Buzz passing the course now,

is Gouldy's final assessment.

Our initial execution of the tasks went well.

They managed to protect the transport aircraft in and out.

Buzz definitely did some air-to-air shooting as well.

He made a tactical decision to use his fuel

for that rather than being able to get back to the tanker.

Gouldy said we had to make sure we had enough fuel

to go all the way round the airspace to get out,

and I decided to not do that,

in the interest of staying there five minutes longer,

to kill someone that was going to kill other people.

I think it basically is going to mean that I die in

the exercise, like, in the game of the exercise,

I think he is going to say that I ran out of fuel.

But I made a conscious choice to do that, to shoot people.

Evening, everyone. Firstly, thanks to everyone involved today

and yesterday supporting the various QWICS.

A really complicated mission with lots of moving parts.

A really strong showing.

We're pretty privileged today to have access

to that number of different assets to play with.

So you ended up with a big picture game plan,

which worked really well.

You're definitely a big picture guy,

and the mission that you generated kind of shows that.

A really strong effort.

So the UK's newest Mission Commander. Well done.

THEY APPLAUD

In becoming the RAF's newest Qualified Weapons Instructor,

Buzz is now classed as one of

the most elite fighter pilots in the world.

I think to be a good fighter pilot, I think ultimately

all the Top Gun-esque bravado has to disappear.

If you make a mistake,

owning up to that mistake, then ultimately,

we can be more lethal

because without that we are just a flying club.

All the training we do was in

the event that we end up having to do something with it.

If we're not here to fight and win wars,

why are we here, why are we spending all this money,

why are we putting people through all this stuff...

..if it's not to make sure that when we are called upon,

we do it, we do it well, and we win.

It's the whole game.

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