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Navy pilot first to complete distance education top gun

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Navy pilot first to complete distance education top gun

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NAVAL STRIKE AND AIR WARFARE CENTER, FALLON, NV — The US Navy has graduated its first pilot from the world-famous Top Gun School by correspondence. Lieutenant Carl Samulson completed the grueling eight-month course completely by mail and online, flying simulators twelve to fourteen hours a day from his home. His accomplishment earned him the call sign “HOT,” an acronym for “Hands Off Throttles,” a reference to the fact that Samulson never saw an actual jet during the course.

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