Episode Summary

Mitchell Institute’s Aerospace Advantage podcast is pleased to release the third installment in its Desert Storm retrospective, Flying the Missions: The Desert Storm Air Campaign 30 Years Later. Host Lt Col (ret.) John Baum and Mitchell Institute dean Lt Gen (ret.) Dave Deptula speak with airmen who strapped into their jets and flew into harm’s way as part of the air campaign. Guests include F-16 pilot Lt Gen “Orville” Wright, USAF (Ret.), B-52 pilot Lt Gen Mike Moeller, USAF (Ret.), F-117 pilot Major Gen Greg Feest, USAF (Ret.), F-15C pilot Col Rico Rodriguez, USAF (Ret.), Air Force Special Operations rep Col Randy O’Boyle, USAF (Ret.), and Mr. Dale Burton, who was the Technical Lead for JSTARS. Each one of these individuals brings unique experiences to this conversation, ranging from Feest dropping the first bomb in Iraq from an F-117, or Rodriguez scoring multiple air-to-air kills against Iraq MiGs.