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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usa8s-j3kO0
Kill MiGs! Getting the Gorillas Ready for War: Paco Geisler (Part 1)
>1,453 views Mar 25, 2022
10PCT #31 P1: "Paco" Geisler
>Constant Peg
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:58 Why the Air Force?
00:10:49 Appraisal of the F-4
00:16:57 Mastering BFM
00:19:18 Nature or Nurture?
00:25:33 Losing
00:28:38 Humble, Approachable, Credible
00:29:48 Leaders to Aspire to
00:40:44 Risk
00:45:41 Fischer's Speech: Cancer in the Eye of TAC
00:50:18 F-15 Weapons School Mishaps and Repercussions
01:06:46 Call me Ace or Red Baron…
01:10:17 Winning at the Fighter Weapons School
01:18:23 Teaching at the FWS
01:21:03 Weapons School Papers and F-Pole
01:28:04 Why "the Great White Hope"?
01:33:38 The F-15 Design: An Introduction
01:44:35 F-15 Introduction to Service - Flown Like an F-4
01:46:18 Radar Tapes Update
01:47:17 APG-63 Development
01:51:28 MSIP
02:01:15 Vodka Cabinet for the Gorillas
02:02:55 Call of the Lawn Darts Dead!
02:07:17 You Guys Have Embarrassed Me. Take off Your Patches
02:09:13 Building the Gorillas
02:13:20 Eglin Wing Commanders
02:15:25 Air War College
02:19:55 WWE and VIPs
02:27:11 Sammy Davis Jnr.
02:29:54 Keeping it Simple
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4477th_Test_and_Evaluation_Squadron
The 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron (4477 TES) was a squadron in the United States Air Force under the claimancy of the Tactical Air Command (TAC). It is currently inactive.[1] The product of Project Constant Peg, the unit was created to expose the tactical air forces to the flight characteristics of fighter aircraft used by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.[1] The declassified history of the squadron shows that it operated MiG-17s, MiG-21s and MiG-23s between 1977 and 1988, but it was not formally disbanded until July 1990.[1]
The mission of Constant Peg was to train Air Force, United States Navy and United States Marine Corps pilots and weapon systems officers, in air combat tactics against these foreign aircraft and was instrumental in the re-development of dissimilar air combat training (DACT) methods developed after the Vietnam War. Today's USAF aggressor training squadrons can symbolically trace their histories back to the 4477th, as well as the paint motifs on their aircraft, which were used by the aircraft of the squadron in the 1970s and 1980s.
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