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An 'aggressor' unit, whether air or ground, is not a casual investment or something for pilots to brag about.
Never mind using 'enemy' tactics and hardware. Those things are very important. But what is even more important is the QUALITY of the pilots in the program. There is no need for exaggeration by using nonsensical phrases like 'best of the best of the best of the best' and so on. Suffice to say that aggressor pilots MUST be the best of the entire air force.
It is not enough for an aggressor pilot to be that typical Type A personality. He must calculating in everything. Planning must be as natural as breathing. The pen comes before the stick. He must be dedicated to the mission, no matter how long he is with the unit, which is to provide the most realistic combat scenarios as possible, so this is where the pen comes in.
He must be a better than competent instructor and by that it means he must be able to deal with all types of personalities that comes before him. It is no good for the air force if he cannot impart all the knowledge he knows and skills he possesses. That does not mean everyone he trained will be as good as he is. That is not possible even under the best of environment. But what it means is that he must demonstrate that he can explain complex concepts to everyone. It will be up to those people to put those concepts into their flying.
Physically speaking, he must be in the best flying status. Not as good as possible. But the best. That does not mean he must fly all the time. If whenever he is not capable of flying his best, he does his students no good if he flies at less than his best because no one can afford to hope that the real enemy pilot is flying with inferior skills or physical conditions. The lesson is from WW II US Army Air Corps. After X number of combat missions, the pilot is sent home to train new pilots. The veteran is still in the prime of his flying condition but now with his experience, he will raise the bar, even if just slightly, of new graduating pilots who will enter the war.
Anyone that is less than the best from the force and you might as well scrap the program.
Never mind using 'enemy' tactics and hardware. Those things are very important. But what is even more important is the QUALITY of the pilots in the program. There is no need for exaggeration by using nonsensical phrases like 'best of the best of the best of the best' and so on. Suffice to say that aggressor pilots MUST be the best of the entire air force.
It is not enough for an aggressor pilot to be that typical Type A personality. He must calculating in everything. Planning must be as natural as breathing. The pen comes before the stick. He must be dedicated to the mission, no matter how long he is with the unit, which is to provide the most realistic combat scenarios as possible, so this is where the pen comes in.
He must be a better than competent instructor and by that it means he must be able to deal with all types of personalities that comes before him. It is no good for the air force if he cannot impart all the knowledge he knows and skills he possesses. That does not mean everyone he trained will be as good as he is. That is not possible even under the best of environment. But what it means is that he must demonstrate that he can explain complex concepts to everyone. It will be up to those people to put those concepts into their flying.
Physically speaking, he must be in the best flying status. Not as good as possible. But the best. That does not mean he must fly all the time. If whenever he is not capable of flying his best, he does his students no good if he flies at less than his best because no one can afford to hope that the real enemy pilot is flying with inferior skills or physical conditions. The lesson is from WW II US Army Air Corps. After X number of combat missions, the pilot is sent home to train new pilots. The veteran is still in the prime of his flying condition but now with his experience, he will raise the bar, even if just slightly, of new graduating pilots who will enter the war.
Anyone that is less than the best from the force and you might as well scrap the program.