July 28, 2019
Top Gun Memoir Warns That the Navy Isn't Training Its Fighter Pilots Enough
A major threat?
by Military and Aerospace Electronics
Unfortunately, claims Pedersen, bureaucratic rot and self-destructive rivalry and jealousy have set in the years since the 1969 founding of that “graduate school for fighter pilots.â€
WASHINGTON – In his engaging and succinct memoir Top Gun: An American Story, Topgun’s original commanding officer Dan Pedersen argues that “what matters is the man, not the machine,†and because of this truism, pilot training will always be far more important than the technology of jet fighters for winning battles in the sky. At present, says Pedersen, “Something is rotten in Washington, and one day, sadly, we will lose a war because of it.†The Federalist reports. Continue reading original article
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/top-gun-memoir-warns-navy-isnt-training-its-fighter-pilots-enough-69671The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
