Air to Air Combat Managment Review

Dan O'Neill was an instructor in the advanced tactics phase of the squadron. The worst thing we could do as far as our higher headquarters was concerned was lose a plane, he says. "We played it safe" and did air combat maneuvering or ACM, but always within strict safety parameters,. As a result, the program lacked combat realism; rag pilots saw the radical maneuvers that modern jets were capable of.