Posted on Sep 18, 2020

Former US Navy fighter pilot explains why TOPGUN fines aviators $5 each time they quote the...

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

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If you feel "the need for speed" at the US Navy's elite fighter pilot school, you'd best not say it, or be prepared to pay the price.

At the Navy's decades-old tactical air combat training center commonly known as TOPGUN, there are fines for various infractions. Any quote from the iconic 1986 film "Top Gun" starring Tom Cruise as the hotshot naval aviator Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell will cost you $5, former fighter pilot and TOPGUN instructor Cmdr. Guy "Bus" Snodgrass reveals in his new book, "TOPGUN's Top 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit."

Former US Navy fighter pilot explains why TOPGUN fines aviators $5 each time they quote the...

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1LT Voyle Smith

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Chickenshit instructors just want beer money! Like the company class "A" agent in OCS at Ft Benning who fined me five bucks for having a "lanyard" (loose thread) showing at a buttonhole on my fatigues. He did that with every candidate each month so the company's tac officers could party with the candidates's wives. Somebody dropped a dime on him to the CID and the class after mine had an agent among the candidates and got the goods on him. He was charged with grand larceny and convicted at a general court-martial & being prior service, was busted back to private & given seven years at Leavenworth.

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