Welcome to the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today’s guest is retired Commander Chip 'Biff' King, who accumulated over 5,750 tactical jet aircraft flight hours in his career, including 3,500 hours in the F-14 Tomcat, as well as 969 arrested landings. In the third of four episodes about Biff's naval career, we focus on his time at VF-213 as XO and CO, to include his storied ride with Sports Illustrated writer Rick 'Two Bags' Reilly and the 400,000 lbs of ordnance his squadron dropped over Afghanistan to support the ODAs working to push back the Taliban between October and December 2001.Find Rick Reilly's story about his ride with Biff here: https://dickmartin.wordpress.com/pilot-jokes-archive/two-bags/About Biff:Commander Chip 'Biff' King is a Washington, D.C. native and a graduate of Randolph Macon College. He received his commission in the U.S. Navy through AOCS and was designated a Naval aviator in January 1984.Commander King had tours with VF-84, VF-45, VF-142, and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 9, and served as a Congressional liaison before being XO/CO of VF-213. His decorations and awards include Bronze Star with Combat “V”, three Meritorious Service Medals, Individual Air Medal with Combat “V”, four Strike Flight Air Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals with Combat “V”, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, four Battle Efficiency Awards, numerous Armed Forces and Unit Commendation Medals and various unit, service and campaign awards. About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by F-14 Radar Intercept Officer Glen 'Wheels' Wheless and grew up around aviators and their unique brand of storytelling for most of her childhood. Beth worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast.

Welcome to the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today’s guest is retired Commander Chip 'Biff' King, who accumulated over 5,750 tactical jet aircraft flight hours in his career, including 3,500 hours in the F-14 Tomcat, as well as 969 arrested landings. In the second of four episodes about Biff's naval career, we focus on his return to two-seat fighters with VF-142 after his time in VF-45. We also discuss his brief tour as a Congressional aide.About Biff:Commander Chip 'Biff' King is a Washington, D.C. native and a graduate of Randolph Macon College. He received his commission in the U.S. Navy through AOCS and was designated a Naval aviator in January 1984.Commander King had tours with VF-84, VF-45, VF-142, and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 9, and served as a Congressional liaison before being XO/CO of VF-213. His decorations and awards include Bronze Star with Combat “V”, three Meritorious Service Medals, Individual Air Medal with Combat “V”, four Strike Flight Air Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals with Combat “V”, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, four Battle Efficiency Awards, numerous Armed Forces and Unit Commendation Medals and various unit, service and campaign awards. About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by F-14 Radar Intercept Officer Glen 'Wheels' Wheless and grew up around aviators and their unique brand of storytelling for most of her childhood. Beth worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast.

Welcome to the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today’s guest is retired Commander Chip 'Biff' King, who accumulated over 5,750 tactical jet aircraft flight hours in his career, including 3,500 hours in the F-14 Tomcat, as well as 969 arrested landings. In the first episode about Biff's naval career, we focus on his training years and tour at VF-84, and his decision to head to VF-45 for instructor duty as an adversary pilot.About Biff:Commander Chip 'Biff' King is a Washington, D.C. native and a graduate of Randolph Macon College. He received his commission in the U.S. Navy through AOCS and was designated a Naval aviator in January 1984.Commander King had tours with VF-84, VF-45, VF-142, and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 9, and served as a Congressional liaison before being XO/CO of VF-213. His decorations and awards include Bronze Star with Combat “V”, three Meritorious Service Medals, Individual Air Medal with Combat “V”, four Strike Flight Air Medals, two Navy Commendation Medals with Combat “V”, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal, four Battle Efficiency Awards, numerous Armed Forces and Unit Commendation Medals and various unit, service and campaign awards. About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by F-14 Radar Intercept Officer Glen 'Wheels' Wheless and grew up around aviators and their unique brand of storytelling for most of her childhood. Beth worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast.

Welcome to the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today’s guest is retired Commander Jim 'Puck' Howe, whose distinguished aviation career included over 3,800 flying hours in the F-14 Tomcat and F-18 Hornet.In the final episodes about his time flying for the Navy, Puck talks about getting selected for command and going to VF-31 as the F-14 Tomcat was being transitioned out of service. We talk about the O-Club's place in fighter culture, and about Puck's love of Hallmark Christmas movies.

About Puck:Commander Howe was born in Grove City, PA. He graduatedfrom the United States Naval Academy in 1989, earning his B.S. in General Engineering. After selecting Tomcats following flight school, CDR Howe flew with VF-32, VF-101, VF-2, SFWSL, and VF/A-31.He is a graduate of the Strike Fighters Tactics Instructor (TOPGUN) course taught at the Naval Strike and Aviation Warfare Center (NSAWC), as well as the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course taught at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron ONE (MAWTS-1).About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by F-14 Radar Intercept Officer Glen 'Wheels' Wheless and grew up around aviators and their unique brand of storytelling for most of her childhood. Beth worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast.

Welcome to the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today’s guest is retired Commander Jim 'Puck' Howe, whose distinguished aviation career included over 3,800 flying hours in the F-14 Tomcat and F-18 Hornet.In the third of four episodes about his time flying for the Navy, Puck talks about the immediate impact that 9/11 had on his flying career, and his participation in Task Force 20, the secretive first foray into Iraq.About Puck:Commander Howe was born in Grove City, PA. He graduatedfrom the United States Naval Academy in 1989, earning his B.S. inGeneral Engineering. After selecting Tomcats following flight school,CDR Howe flew with VF-32, VF-101, VF-2, SFWSL, and VF/A-31.He is a graduate of the Strike Fighters Tactics Instructor (TOPGUN)course taught at the Naval Strike and Aviation Warfare Center(NSAWC), as well as the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI)course taught at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics SquadronONE (MAWTS-1).About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by F-14 Radar Intercept Officer Glen 'Wheels' Wheless and grew up around aviators and their unique brand of storytelling for most of her childhood. Beth worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast.

Welcome to Cowboy Time at the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today, Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier and Beth Bailey discuss the story that gives the podcast its name.

We talk about John 'Yogi' Graham and the lore of aviation culture. To conclude, Beth reads 'The Fighter Pilots' Guide to Living' in full.Calling all aviators - if you've got stories to share and can spin a good yarn about time spent in the cockpit of any platform (fighter or otherwise) we want to host you. Please reach out to bwbailey85@gmail.com

Find the original 'The Fighter Pilots' Guide to Living' here: https://bwbailey85.medium.com/the-fighter-pilots-guide-to-living-48e044fdb435

About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by an F-14 RIO, which shaped the course of her life in a massive way. She worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast. Follow Beth: on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bwbailey85/ on X: https://x.com/BWBailey85 on Substack: https://substack.com/@bwbailey85 on the web: https://bethwbailey.com/

Welcome to the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today’s guest is retired Commander Jim 'Puck' Howe, whose distinguished aviation career included over 3,800 flying hours in the F-14 Tomcat and F-18 Hornet.In the second of four episodes about his time flying for the Navy, Puck talks about his time at VF-32 and his attendance at the TOPGUN and MAWTS-1 courses. About Puck:Commander Howe was born in Grove City, PA. He graduatedfrom the United States Naval Academy in 1989, earning his B.S. inGeneral Engineering. After selecting Tomcats following flight school,CDR Howe flew with VF-32, VF-101, VF-2, SFWSL, and VF/A-31.He is a graduate of the Strike Fighters Tactics Instructor (TOPGUN)course taught at the Naval Strike and Aviation Warfare Center(NSAWC), as well as the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI)course taught at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics SquadronONE (MAWTS-1).About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by F-14 Radar Intercept Officer Glen 'Wheels' Wheless and grew up around aviators and their unique brand of storytelling for most of her childhood. Beth worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast.

Welcome to the Fighter Pilots’ Guide to Living. Today’s guest is retired Commander Jim 'Puck' Howe, whose distinguished aviation career included over 3,800 flying hours in the F-14 Tomcat and F-18 Hornet.In one of four episodes about his time flying for the Navy, Puck talks about his lengthy training process to become a fighter pilot, his time at the RAG, and his assignment to VF-32. About Puck:Commander Howe was born in Grove City, PA. He graduatedfrom the United States Naval Academy in 1989, earning his B.S. in General Engineering. After selecting Tomcats following flight school, CDR Howe flew with VF-32, VF-101, VF-2, SFWSL, and VF/A-31. He is a graduate of the Strike Fighters Tactics Instructor (TOPGUN) course taught at the Naval Strike and Aviation Warfare Center (NSAWC), as well as the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course taught at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron ONE (MAWTS-1).About the hosts:Mitch 'TACO' Parmentier has 16 years of experience with the F/A-18 Super Hornet as a Weapons System Operator (WSO). He has a longstanding love of aviation and history that he brings to the podcast.Beth Bailey was raised by F-14 Radar Intercept Officer Glen 'Wheels' Wheless and grew up around aviators and their unique brand of storytelling for most of her childhood. Beth worked in support of Afghanistan operations as a civilian intelligence analyst for the Department of the Army between 2010 and 2013. She is a freelance contributor to Fox News Digital and the Washington Examiner, and host of The Afghanistan Project Podcast.