Just back from Vietnam, Navy pilot Dan Pederson got a new job

Start a new school.

Navy pilots “had gone into the war thinking we were the best pilots in the world flying the best aircraft armed with the best weapons,” writes Dan Pedersen in Topgun: An American Story’. “The North Vietnamese showed us otherwise. We were ready to do whatever it took to win.”

"The (existing) program lacked combat realism. That’s not how you want to send a young man off to war. The enemy always gets a vote, a wise person once said, and in the skies over North Vietnam the enemy was voting in droves. Finally the time came for the Navy to do something about it."

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