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Episode 486: Fighter pilot Justin Lee, why the F-35 is special, Professionals Playbook, & Iron Eagle

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Entertainment News, Government, News, History

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode of SOFREP Radio, journalist and M…

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The Brute force. If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough. You're listening to

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software radio. Special operations enough. You're listening to Softrop Radio, Special Operations Military News, and

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straight talk with the guys in the community. Oh, oh, I'm a... Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

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I'm, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Well hello out there internet's and welcome to another episode of soft rep radio.

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As you've already guessed I am not Navy SEAL Brandon Webb nor am I SAS badass big

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Phil Campion but who I am is Alex Hollings, tech editor and senior staff writer for Soft rep.com, and journalists that spent the last few years trying to study the way defense technology informs foreign policy.

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And in that pursuit, I've met some pretty interesting dudes.

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One of them we're going to be talking to today.

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In just a few minutes, we're going to talk to Justin Lee, Major Justin Hazard Lee.

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He's an F-35 pilot instructor who has nearly 400 hours

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of combat flight time at the stick of an F-16.

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He transitioned from the F-16 to the F-35.

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I want to say sometime after 2015, is that right Justin?

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Yeah, at about 2017 I transferred from the F-16 to the F-35.

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Now he makes his living teaching the next generation of fighter pilots how to handle the

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F-35 who unlike Justin are actually coming up and they're going straight to the F-35 as opposed to learning on a fourth generation

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platform is that right? Yeah we call them pitching babies because they don't know

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how hard it was back in the day. I feel like that's like my daughter is growing up in a

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world where we have Netflix and like a

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65 inch TV in the living room and you can watch anything you want any time you want. She's never really going to appreciate

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just how bad things were with a 25 inch Zenith TV and a VCR you know yeah they're

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spoiled absolutely now other than being an f-35 pilot, Justin's a busy dude.

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