#178 - Commander Scott Snow - Navy Fighter Pilot

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Society & Culture, Comedy

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🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jarred Taylor is joined by Commander Scott Snow, a twenty-one-year veteran of the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aviator. The two compare fighter jet models, discuss dogfight tactics, the nerve-racking process of landing on a naval carrier, and highlight CDR Snow's career leading 32 F-14D aircrew in Combat operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom. CDR Snow is now the founder and president of MCS Universal, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter: IG: @blackriflecoffeepodcast Twitter: @brccpodcast #podcast #blackriflecoffee #jarredtaylor

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0:00.0	That's your attention now, don't I?
0:03.0	This is the Black Rifle Coffee Podcast.
0:07.0	Prepare to get caffeinated.
0:19.4	Well, first off, I have to say,
0:22.3	uh, am I lucky that I got you here, uh, when I did?
0:27.4	Because your call sign is Flake.
0:30.0	That is true.
0:30.8	Yes.
0:32.3	Or, or if there's been, uh, if I've been imbibing, then my older ego, comes out. So, FRA, which is quite nice. He's pretty enjoyable. Well, ladies and gentlemen, today we are joined by none other than Scott Snow. What was your rank when you retired? Commander, 05. Oh, nice. I didn't know that. Well, now I do. Now you do. Navy. Navy Commander,
0:57.8	Top Gun instructor. No. Oh, oh. Not a top gun instructor, but I ran Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center
1:05.4	Ops. So I had Top Gun Strike, Switty, and the E2 Weapons School. So you were up above. I was the owner. I was the owner of all theitty and the E2 weapon school. So you were up,
1:11.3	up above that?
1:11.9	I was the owner of all the airplanes and the maker of all things happen. Okay. Well, I mean, that's still pretty freaking cool. It was cool. I got to teach him out of fly the F-16 and beat up on them all the time. And this is where this is going to get interesting. Like you're an F-14 Tomcat pilot that also is rated in an F-16.
1:29.4	Correct.
1:30.2	And F-18. And F-18. So you got to do the gamut. Yes, very much so. I feel like, you know, outside, have you ever ridden in a strike eagle? I have not. Okay. So that's pretty much the last box that you would need to check of when it comes
1:45.4	to high performance. Pretty cool. I definitely would have to fly the F-22. Yeah. Yeah. F-35, they can
1:53.0	have it. Don't care. Single engine, you know, I just... It's the fat kid with a calculator. You know,
2:00.7	you can't run away. You can't go fast. You can't dogfight. You're like, hey, well, I've got this cool helmet. I'll just look at him and zap him with my eyeball lasers. No, that doesn't work. No, that and that I was touring the F-35 squadron recently a couple weeks ago out of Egglin Air Force Base. And two things. Number one, yes, that thing is fat. It is a big-booted girl. Thank you, Mike. Go-Lift fan. And when I'm talking to the pilots, I'm like, so is it, does it outmaneuver in F-16? No. Does it, is it faster?
2:35.0	No.
2:35.8	Okay, then what the hell is the purpose of this thing?
2:38.8	Well, it's invisible.
2:42.5	Hang on.
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