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TAP #61 Vice Adm (Ret) Mark "MRT" Fox
2 hour 3 minutes Posted Jan 17, 2023 at 10:30 am.
) Intro
) Adm Fox's Background
) Standing up Navy's first F-18 Super Hornet Squadron
) Director White House Military Office
) Why I joined the Navy
) Experience of flying the F-18
) Mediterranean Aircraft Carrier Cruise in F-18 and fighting   F-104s and F-4s
) Fighting in Libya MiG-23 Intercept - Seeing an SA-5 Launch
) What it was like shifting from cold war mindset to desert storm
) Desert Storm
) January 17th 1991 Mission
) Mission and night of the shootdown
) MiG-21 Shoot down
) Almost shooting down a MiG-29
) LCDR Scott Speicher Shootdown, unknown status, and recovery
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Ep 61 Vice Admr (Ret) Mark “MRT” Fox
“MRT” began his naval career in 1978 after commissioning from the United States Naval Academy.  He completed five fleet tours in the A-7 and F-18 with over 100 combat and contingency mission in Iraq, Libya, and the Balkans.
On 17 January 1991, “MRT” scored the first air-to-air kill of a MiG-21 during Operation Desert Storm. Prior to his retirement “MRT” served in numerous command tours, including Deputy Commander USCENTCOM, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, and Director White House Military Office.
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(1:42:30) LCDR Scott Speicher Shootdown, unknown status, and recovery
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