Originally Posted by
XHooker
Yeah, Miramar has a touch more to offer than Fallon. I think there was no follow on orders commitment to Topgun (maybe even Blues) orders until the mid-90s and that might have begun the change, with the move to Fallon finishing it off. Like the Blues, once you learn what it entails, Topgun IP sounds like a job that's much cooler to say you do it than actually do it, at least for me (not that it mattered). Still hard to believe how far it's come (fallen).
Well said.
On another note, I know of a Marine who was both a Blue Angel and Topgun IP. Don't know if he's the only one to do both.
The current Boss (Boss McWherter) and former Boss (Foley) were Top Gun IPs (Boss Mannix was Weapons School Instructor/Top Gun grad). I dont know many 'Navy' Blues in the diamond ('Pepper' McCoy comes to mind) who were Top Gun Grads mostly because big Navy says no to the detailers in that if they send a Top Gun grad to the NFDS as a JO they lose the ability to get a squadron training officer tour out of them. Not sure about the Marines that have been in the Diamond seems to me that most Marine FRS IPs used to be MAWTS/Top Gun grads that is until the FRS flood gates opened up to Marines(106).