U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Clayton Percle, 525th Fighter
Squadron commander at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson,
Alaska, talks about his life-long love of fighter planes,
triumph over adversity which threatened to crush his dreams
of becoming a fighter pilot, and the flight which made him
the first U.S. Air Force active-duty pilot to break 1,000
flight hours in the F-22 Raptor on February 3, 2015.
Note: In
2011, Air Force Reserve Col. David Piffarerio, then a
Lieutenant Colonel with the 302nd Fighter Squadron and now deputy
commander of the 477th Fighter Group at JBER, became the first Air
Force pilot to reach 1,000 hours in the Raptor.
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson
video by Justin Connaher Video edited by USA
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