E. Matthew “Whiz” Buckley: F/A-18 Hornet Fighter Pilot, TOPGUN Graduate, Producer of No Fallen Heroes
Team Never Quit
Marcus Luttrell
4.9 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
- I was raised with the belief that the American Dream was real and I could achieve anything I wanted to be as long as I applied myself, worked hard, and cared for others.
- I loved my country, the ocean and flying so I set out to become a navy fighter pilot.
- Every landing aboard the ship is graded. The mission is secondary to coming back because you’ve got 5,000 people watching you.
- I flew an acceptance flight in a new Hornet, and I did some unbelievable things with it, although I didn’t have too much time to enjoy it because all of a sudden the engines were gasping for air.
- When you’re moving that fast, all your wrinkles go away.
- At Mach 1.7 I thought, “I should be pulling out of this dive.” At that speed, I can’t eject. I’d be vaporized.
- When you make a decision, the computers go “If he does that, we’re gonna disintegrate, and we don’t want to do that.”
- We put our dog tags in our boots because in aviation accidents, that’s usually all that’s left.
- The jet’s a tattletale. It’s all electronic. Your superiors know how hard you pushed it.
- You can teach people a lot of stuff, but you can’t teach ‘em leadership.
- In a debrief, there ain’t no ”we” or ”us”. There’s only “I”.
- If you sat in a fighter pilot debrief, you’d think we hated each other. It not who’s right, it’s what’s right.
- Save the apple polishing for the bar – we’re in a debrief.
- A big leadership moment is when I was told “I could be friendly with you, but we’re not friends.”
- The Navy does a great job of teaching us to compartmentalize. If Marcus gets smoked, I’ll mourn him later, and guess what? I don’t get to mourn him later, ‘cause it’s on to the next thing.
- On the medicine, my dad & my sister, who was killed by a drunk driver, were both there. They looked incredible. In that moment, I healed.
- Forgiveness doesn’t exist in heaven, because there’s no need for it.
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