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Hey, thanks for the ping.

Somethings in the Navy never change. After anything cool happens, the NFOs all rush to give the interviews so that its not possible to forget that they were there too. It is a long standing joke among flyers.

A truthful interview with a Tomcat crew would go something like this:

NFO: After the pilot got a good catshot, I told him to steer that-a-way, then he got into a combat-spread formation, at which time I asked him to light up a target. After I gave the pilot range and bearing info (that he could already see from his own instruments) I suggested that he go boresight on threat1, although he had already done so.

NFO: Although the HUD told the pilot when to shoot, I figured I would chime in and yell SHOOT! myself, so I could be part of the action. After the pilot called Fox3, he pitch up and rolled inverted to get a bounce on threat1. Me? Oh, I held on to my G-handle, and checked fuel state so I could suggest how long we could stay in burner.

NFO: After a good kill, the pilot flew to Marshall, after I gave him directions. Then the pilot stacked down to an OK-3, while I called out altitude and speed, even though the pilot could see that information in the HUD, I like to feel like I had something to do with it too, you know?

NFO: While the pilot reported any discrepancies with the aircraft to the plane captain, I found you interviewer guys so I could tell you about our cool mission today.

Pilot: Unless you got a slider in your pocket, get that microphone out of my face.