Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the cold war, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor at the navy's elite Fighter Weapons School. As a Topgun instructor, Bio was responsible for teaching the best fighter pilots of the Navy and Marine...

From landing an F-14 Tomcat on the pitching deck of an aircraft carrier to escaping a sinking, somersaulting helicopter fuselage, no one faces more dangerous challenges than a U.S. Naval aviation candidate. This first-of-its-kind book, written by Douglas Waller, the national security correspondent for Time magazine, now takes you into the cockpit and through two years of the physically and psychologically grueling training program. Here is a gripping...

Includes practice tests for the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT), Army Selection Instrument for Flight Training (SIFT), and Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard Aviation Selection Test Batteries-Enhanced (ASTB-E).