Guns were Hoser’s game in the air; he flew the four-gun Crusader – which many Navy pilots still regard as the [deleted] machine of all time- in Southeast Asia, and he’d never been forced to rely totally on missiles like his Navy Phantom cohorts. After negotiations that would shame the pro football draft, Hoser was dragooned back into the Tomcat front seat as a RAG guns instructor. This, after personal entreaties from the highest levels up and including Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, himself a Reserve naval aviator.
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-joe-hoser-satrapa-the-f-14-tomcat-pilot-who-scored-two-simulated-gun-kills-on-two-usaf-f-15s-for-two-times-in-the-same-mission/amp/
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