Miramar

[futrMarineBlueAngel]

What's gonna happen with the Top Gun school in Miramar after the F-14 Tomcats are phased out?

 

[Gatordev]

I would suppose nothing, since it isn't there anymore. The Marines inherited the base and defiled a piece of history by putting that ugly EGA on everything.

 

[46Driver]

I thought Mirimar was originally a Marine Corps Air Station and then went to the Navy and then back to the Corps???

 

[BigWorm]

Before that, the Army owned it.

 

[squeeze]

TOPGUN has been at NAS Fallon since 1993 when it was incorporated into NSAWC. Since 93, Miramar has been an MCAS.

 

[futrMarineBlueAngel]

O, I guess thats good to know thanks

 

[ander37]

I thought they still had a Top Gun school and it was now F-18's flying outta there.
I thought it was a special off the Discovery Wings channel, they also had something about Red October where F-18's go to Germany and mock fight the Mig-29 (which would be soo cool)!

 

[jrklr]

The top gun school in Fallon is still in full effect from what I know (although it was way cooler in miramar) and I beleive they fly F-14's there still as well as F-18's. If anyone knows if they're training superhornet pilots there I'd like to know. Also, I've heard that its more of an attack school rather than fighter, since no one really gets in dogfights anymore. Anyone else know about this?

 

[bunk22]

As an Ensign, I was stashed at "TOPGUN" awaiting flight school. That was 1993 in Miramar. The school moved in 1995 to NAS Fallon.

 

[Gatordev]

Just to clarify, the change Navy wide hasn't necessarily been to an "attack" syllabus, but a "Strike" one. It's the Strike Fighter Weapons School, and concurrently, they have the Strike Weapons School for helos as well. Pretty much across the board that's been the focus ie, Bombcats, Hornets, Strike Vikings, P-3s w/ missles and bombs, and the helos going from ASW to Strike warfare (hellfire, Section Gun attacks). Whether this is a good thing is up for debate. Obviously it's working for the pointy nose guys, but ASW ability has seriously degraded over the years.

 

[webmaster]

ASW is getting the same treatment, learning from the Strike guys and using the same template, and they are creating the ASW equivalent of NSAWC with the surface, helo, P3 and sub guys forming it. It will be in San Diego is last I heard.

NSAWC was a lot of fun, went there last year with one of the Wings, and provided some P3 ISR support during training.

 

[stevew]

How and when in the pipeline do you get selected for TOP GUN and is the same for the NAvy as it is for the Marines. Do both braches got to Fallon or are marines sent to a different location for TOP GUN?

 

[NeoCortex]

You just apply, it's a shore tour so you get to fly for a shore tour. Everyones dream!!