United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program
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Sep 11, 2026
Michael BerryHOST
He'd been a Navy fighter pilot.
Michael BerryHOST
He taught at the Navy Fighter Weapons School, which you and I would call Top Gun.
Michael BerryHOST
He got hurt in an accident in the nineties, a few years before this.
Michael BerryHOST
He was medically discharged, and he went to work for a defense contractor.
Austin HulbertGUEST
We were just always funded with the exception of like a couple of sequester times.
Austin HulbertGUEST
So we had, you know, phenomenal leadership, super tactical, all top gun guys.
Austin HulbertGUEST
So, you know, they're really big about doing a lot of air to air stuff and, you know, really getting good.
Austin HulbertGUEST
So they made us great.
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Austin HulbertGUEST
So one of the guys, Suds, who was a...
Austin HulbertGUEST
A really awesome was, oh, he was the guy that the squadron was like, hey, you're going to be the first guy to go because he was one of the senior J.O.'s.
Austin HulbertGUEST
So they sent him through the RMC course before he went off the Top Gun.
Austin HulbertGUEST
And I remember being on, you know, dash two or dash three or whatever on those flights.
Joe PiscopoHOST
Hey, uh, we'll talk to Wiz Bug- Buckley, our buddy.
Joe PiscopoHOST
I think we should per- personally send, uh, this, uh, this Top Gun graduate, this former USA decorated F-18, uh, Super Hornet pilot.
Joe PiscopoHOST
I think we should send Wiz over there[laughs] to Iran telling him, "Get that, get that little, you know, that rapid deployment strike force." I'm just saying.
Joe PiscopoHOST
He's g-- We're gonna, we're gonna, uh, weigh in on what's, uh, happening with, uh, Iran.
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Joe PiscopoHOST
Hey, Joe On the Radio on AM 970 The Answer, the flagship station for all Salem Media.
Joe PiscopoHOST
Love having you with us, and it's a Friday, so we're kinda riffing, but, uh, we'll get down business with Matthew Wiz Buckley, decorated former US, uh, uh, Navy F-18, uh, Hornet pilot, Top Gun graduate, and founder of No Fallen Heroes Foundation.
Joe PiscopoHOST
Wiz, welcome back to the show.
George DomHOST
And then five years later, he transferred to the Navy, became a naval aviator flying strike fighters from aircraft carriers.
George DomHOST
He attended Top Gun as a student and then was invited back to be an instructor.
Tara CollingwoodHOST
What? We have a real-life Top Gun instructor today, people.
Tara CollingwoodHOST
Oh, my gosh.
Tara CollingwoodHOST
That's right.
Tara CollingwoodHOST
Okay.
Tara CollingwoodHOST
Go on.
George DomHOST
The Blue Angels and Top Gun are the only organizations in the Navy that actually pick, select their relief.
Brian RiveraHOST
I do want to continue with why does this matter today, man? Why does destruction and creation matter more today?
Mark McGrathHOST
boyd practicing the structure and creation himself got called out by the top gun pilots were like hey wait a minute this is all great there's one thing you're forgetting the uh the pilot in the cockpit once that pilot straps in that that machine becomes a complex adaptive system it's no longer simply just the engineering of the plane of the fuel or whatever it's also now how that pilot integrates himself into that system and what did boyd do shit you're right let me Reorient and keep, keep moving rather than what we normally see.
Mark McGrathHOST
You're wrong.
Mark McGrathHOST
I'm right.
Mark McGrathHOST
And Harvard gave me a very cool doctorate and the, and the military is paying me a ton of money to tell me that I'm right and you're wrong.
Mark McGrathHOST
Yeah.
Mark McGrathHOST
It's like a top gun.
Mark McGrathHOST
It's like your data on the MIG is inaccurate.
GageHOST
He's the man.
GageHOST
He is a Naval Academy graduate, mechanical engineer, Navy fighter pilot, a Top Gun graduate.
GageHOST
I haven't ever met one of those.
GageHOST
Airline pilot, Navy reservist, husband, dad, entrepreneur, And he's been on The Next Level Chef with Gordon Ramsay.
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JacksonHOST
Hey, you always got to look at the positive even in a place like that.
JacksonHOST
So earlier on, Gage, I don't really talk about this much.
JacksonHOST
You said you've never met another Top Gun graduate.
JacksonHOST
Now, I was a member of the illustrious class of 318 as a controller back in the day prior to switching over to HR.
Chris VossHOST
He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, a US Navy fighter jet...
Chris VossHOST
Or, I'm sorry, US Navy Fighter Weapons School, that's the Top Gun school, and holds a Master of Science in Global Leadership from the University of San Diego.
Chris VossHOST
Damn.
Chris VossHOST
He is a, the USA Today bestselling author of Silent Horizons: W.E.B. Webb Griffin Direct Action in the Battle Born series.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Navy heard the argument.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Navy Fighter Weapons School at Miramar, what the world came to know as Top Gun, opened in 1969.
Tail DraggerHOST
The Air Force followed with dedicated aggressor squadrons and formal weapons school programs.
Tail DraggerHOST
You can draw a straight line from the painful lessons of MiG Alley over North Vietnam to the pilot who outflew his adversary in the next conflict because somebody in the system listened to what Bolo and the Wolfpack proved at a very high price.
HeidiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's no foreign adversary," I think this was a tremendous disservice and emboldened those who are behind it.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
it.Joining us now, former Top Gun Navy fighter pilot Matthew "Wiz" Buckley and South Pole whistleblower Eric J. Hecker.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Great to see you both.
speaker_9SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So Eric, you know, Catherine told us also that she has heard, uh, potentially there are these attacks that have happened outside the executive office building in Washington, DC, which is right next to the White House.
Robert TeschnerGUEST
primarily because I was forced into it.
Robert TeschnerGUEST
When I got called back to be an instructor at the Air Force Fighter Weapon School, the Air Force Top Gun Program, one of the things that I was voluntold that I was going to take on was managing the debrief program for the Air Force.
Robert TeschnerGUEST
I have to confess that when I was given this, what I thought was somewhat of an onerous burden, I was disappointed because I thought of all the things that one could be responsible for teaching at a fighter weapon school.
Robert TeschnerGUEST
The accountability process was potentially the least sexy.
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