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Can History Majors be Fighter Pilots?
- Thread starter TOPGUN1991
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I'd argue that that's a symptom of a problem here, lately, and not a a plus. But that's me.
READ MY LIPS...majors count for little...grades, test scores, fitness, flight school performance (airmanship & leadership} all mean a lot. BTW Navy "fighter pilots" no longer exist, VA (ATTACK) & VF (FIGHTER) are now combined as VFA (STRIKE FIGHTER). Stop sweating the college major!
BzB, retired VA Pilot
Wait a minute there. I AM a fighter pilot. I just occasionally have to spend time doing Air to Mud on the side.
Heck, you can call yourself whatever you want, but (assuming you're a Hornet Bubba?), officially you're a Strike-Fighter pilot! I think you will find (if not already found)... that the STRIKE portion is the most satisfying, and arguably the most important part of your mission & I have done both! Be proud that y'all are the ultimate in military aerial "multi-tasking".
*That ought to 'stir up the Hornet nests'!
BzB
Really?
Used to drive me nuts when the media would call Air Force or Navy Tac-Air aircraft .... 'Fighter Bombers'. Similarly, being old school I also dislike the F/A designation.
I never bagged a MiG. But I have dropped a thousand more bombs than fired air-to-air missiles. And I loved it. Nevertheless, I still flew a FIGHTER... not a fighter-bomber, not an F&A, nor an attack aircraft. Ergo, and indeed, ich bin ein Kampfpilot!
I never bagged a MiG. But I have dropped a thousand more bombs than fired air-to-air missiles. And I loved it. Nevertheless, I still flew a FIGHTER... not a fighter-bomber, not an F&A, nor an attack aircraft. Ergo, and indeed, ich bin ein Kampfpilot!
That's a weird bit on mental gymnastics. Would you accept, "Trained as a fighter pilot, but served as an Attack guy?"Used to drive me nuts when the media would call Air Force or Navy Tac-Air aircraft .... 'Fighter Bombers'. Similarly, being old school I also dislike the F/A designation.
I never bagged a MiG. But I have dropped a thousand more bombs than fired air-to-air missiles. And I loved it. Nevertheless, I still flew a FIGHTER... not a fighter-bomber, not an F&A, nor an attack aircraft. Ergo, and indeed, ich bin ein Kampfpilot!
No. Not really. I was a trained fighter pilot. And I flew as one. Yes I trained in both air-to-air and air-to-mud. But I was always a fighter pilot flying a fighter, regardless of the mission.
I dropped bombs in training from my fighter aircraft on all the ranges in SoCal, Fallon, a couple in Hawaii and the PI. I did CAS for our Marines, Army grunts and ARVNS from the Vietnam Delta to the DMZ from my fighter. I bombed enemy bridges, tanks, trucks, factories, bunkers, trains, POL storage, barracks, boats and barges, SAM and AAA sites, and once a division of NVA gomers caught out in the defoliated open. I even dropped some underwater anti-ship mines from my phantom fox-four fighter aircraft. I provided Bar-cap, mig-cap, and recon escort in my fighter aircraft.
I recovered first on the boat as a fighter. The number on my aircraft was no [higher] than the 200 series, signifying a fighter.
I loved the attack mission. They did the heavy lifting. I was in awe of the A-6s, or the A-4s and A-7s. They were better than I in that arena... the attack arena, but not by much. However, even though they put sidewinders on our A-7s, they could not do our mission, like we could do theirs.
So I never served as an "attack" pilot. I was not an attack pilot, nor was my aircraft an "attack aircraft." I was and indeed served as a fighter pilot, and prosecuted that fighter mission of the day, whatever Strike Ops called for. QED
You had to... perpetual lo-state, having run around in 'reheat' all hop hunting fer MIGs!
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BzB
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The implication was that operationally, I suspect you've spent just about all your time in A/G tasks vice A/A.