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. Full Episode Youtube:  https://youtu.be/30IOTrkOoKA --- *Join in at E3 Aviation Association: https://bit.ly/E3AviationAssociation *Support the Channel Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theafterburnpodcast *Shop Merch https://bit.ly/ShopAfterburnPodcast Launch Your Aviation Career with BogiDope:https://bit.ly/BogiDope 5% OFF with code "Afterburn" --- Contact Me Email: https://bit.ly/contactTAP Website: https://bit.ly/AfterburnWebsite --- Audio Links: *Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3dLradT *Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3SAeSUr *Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3xWf74o *Podcast Addict: https://bit.ly/3fooCTm --- Show Notes (0:00:00) Intro (0:01:50) Adm Fox's Background (0:08:45) Standing up Navy's first F-18 Super Hornet Squadron (0:12:32) Director White House Military Office (0:19:10) Why I joined the Navy (0:22:50) Experience of flying the F-18 (0:29:13) Mediterranean Aircraft Carrier Cruise in F-18 and fighting   F-104s and F-4s (0:31:05) Fighting in Libya - MiG-23 Intercept - Seeing an SA-5 Launch  (0:37:50) What it was like shifting from cold war mindset to desert storm (0:41:50) Desert Storm (0:51:25) January 17th 1991 Mission (1:02:14) Mission and night of the shootdown (1:15:10) MiG-21 Shoot down (1:23:30) Almost shooting down a MiG-29 (1:42:30) LCDR Scott Speicher Shootdown, unknown status, and recovery --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-afterburn-podcast/message