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fascinating world of air combat, the aircraft, the weapon systems, and most importantly the people. the for you. It's like an audiobook, but instead is a reading of one of the articles on our blog

on our website, fighter pilot podcast.com. I tried this last week with a discussion on my article

How to Succeed in Flight School. Don't Ask Me. And the response... with a discussion on my article how to succeed in flight school don't ask me and the

responses were mostly favorable so we're going to try it again this week but

speaking of last week some of you took issue with my list of how I came up with this

idea in the first place I guess at first I said A, then secondly I said two, and then lastly I said D. I mean come on. This tells me you either don't remember or worse, never saw home are you kidding me I mean come on this

movie is over 30 years old but we're getting into the holidays here and this is a

perfect holiday movie you don't remember big brother buzz bullying Kevin

telling him how useless he was?

Anyway, if you have to explain the joke, I guess it's not funny.

Now before we get to the article, I have a listener question from Alex from Germany,

who says, my first question is

related to the selection process for military pilots.

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