Alan C. Mack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And right between us and just behind us is the air mission commander.
So he's the guy really responsible for the decisions that are being made.
And he goes, Al, what are we going to do?
And I said, sir, I think we just TF.
Train following radar.
I'll tell you in a minute.
We're all going to die.
We're going to TF.
And he goes, okay, execute.
And I'm thinking.
Holy crap.
I didn't know the SecDef had just called and said, get those in no matter what.
So I'm like, all right.
Jethro, my co-pilot from West Virginia, I said, press a button.
The cues come up.
And the cues for the radar keep you 300 feet above the terrain.
So it'll descend you, climb you in the mountains, fly in between the mountains.
But it's all a little video game that he's moving the controls based on the cues that he's seeing.
It is nowadays, but it wasn't then.
It was all what we call commanded.