Originally Posted by
Excargodog
I don’t know about now, but once upon a time they were giving fighter squadrons a primary, secondary, and even tertiary DOC (mission) assignment. Everybody was pretty good on their primary, fair to tolerable on their secondary, but by the time you got=around to their tertiary, well, pretty much all your flight and training time had been devoted to the first couple DOCs and most of that to the first one. So yeah, proficiency really did matter, even when you were nominally multirole.
3 tours here; we maintained proficiency in A/A and A/G in the F-15E. Normal A/G mission started with 4vX or 2vX A/A (beyond visual range) scenarios followed by either a low or med altitude ingress into a target area to drop precision munitions. We generally flew 2.3 hour sorties so no problems doing both mission sets on a normal training flight. We also flew visual A/A (BFM and ACM) 1v1, 2v1 and 2v2 to practice close in engagements using all missile types and the gun. The F-15E is a very capable self escort fighter platform day, night, all wx.