Advancement and Team Strategy

For a long time you’re a number two, you fly behind another one and then you move up into leader of a section and then finally into leading the flight so there’s three or four steps. They watch you carefully and they think when it’s time for a move, just like going to school, you move up a grade. Flying is much like a football team. You have your quarterback, you have your fullback, you got a couple of good receivers, then you got the old line, the solid line that does all the work and that’s what really happens up in the air too. You have a team, you have to fight as a team and you dare not break formation unless you’re told to by your leader so it’s a very disciplined type of flying. If you break off, and we saw many occasions a guy says, “I see something below, I'm going after him,” he goes after him there is a 109 on his tail in no time at all. A lot of these are decoys. You’d talk to these fellows but they just had the urge to go, and they did.