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From: gwishon@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Gordon D. Wishon)
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Subject: Re: Air Superiority over Kuwait?
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Date: 27 Jan 91 11:08:29 GMT
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From: gwishon@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Gordon D. Wishon)

gsnow@pro-freedom.cts.com (Gary Snow) writes:



>From: gsnow@pro-freedom.cts.com (Gary Snow)
>In-Reply-To: message from whheydt@PacBell.COM

>|>The Navy dealt with the problem by coming up with what is now called the
>|>Top Gun school, and scores went up markedly.  (Don't remember whether the
>|>Air Force set up their own school or if they used the Navy's facilities
>|>back then.)

>|They did--it's called Red Flag.

>I thought it was called "William Tell".

"William Tell" is the Air Force's bi-annual air-to-air competition.
"Gunsmoke", the Air Force's air-to-ground competition, is held in William
Tell's off years.  "Red Flag" is NOT a competition, but training (using
live ordnance, etc.).  Red Flag encompasses air-to-air, air-to-ground, 
dissimilar air combat training, and joint operations.  I'm not sure if the 
Top Gun school covers as much territory.

Actually, a closer counterpart to the Navy's Top Gun school would be the Air
Force's "Fighter Weapons School".


Gordon D. Wishon
Air Force Institute of Technology
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Gordon D. Wishon
Air Force Institute of Technology / Wright State University
gwishon@blackbird.afit.af.mil     / gwishon@thor.wright.edu