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Article: The wily bandits.(near collision while air-to-air combat training)
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- December 1, 2002
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I was a nugget and just had finished my first Combined Armed Exercise in 29 Palms, Calif. Up to that point, most of my flights had been air-to-ground sorties, with a few air-to-air training codes mixed in.
We began our air-to-air training block with the walk-before-you-run mentality. The 1 v 1 training started with flats and rollers, then offensive and defensive maneuvers, followed by category fights. The training ended with a fighter pilot's favorite: Cat. 4 butterfly-neutral sets. After a week of 1 v 1s, we began 2 v 2 training. Again, we took the walk-before-you-run approach: We started with VIDs and ended with trying to kill some bandits. We began our last ...