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230: Push The Envelope and Test Yourself. The Founding of TOP GUN. With Dan Pederson

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Top Gun and the Pacific Fleet

The goal of Top Gun wasn't just to teach pilots, but to make those pilots kind of into teachers themselves. The lore behind this is awesome. You go into selecting the first original eight, you call them. I chose John smash Nash for the way his heart and mind work together. Jim Rullifson probably put out more intellectual wattage than any of us.

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