JJ “Yank” Cummings and Kevin “Proton” McLaughlin, both retired Navy captains, were joined by Amy “BACON!” Heflin, a former lieutenant commander, to answer questions from the audience about the movie.
USAA President and CEO Wayne Peacock, left, applauds Naval Top Gun pilots Amy Heflin, JJ Cummings and Kevin McLaughlin following a panel discussion about their role as consultants on the"Top Gun: Maverick" box-office hit.The sound system blasting the Kenny Loggins song “Danger Zone,” hundreds of USAA employees flooded the company headquarters auditorium on Tuesday morning for a debrief like no other.
The three officers also spoke about Top Gun school, the real thing, and their careers as aviators scoring a collective 9,000 flight hours and 2,000 landings on an aircraft carrier. Success! You're on the list. Heflin got her call sign, BACON!, after a cockpit mishap that goes by the same acronym. In the movie, she flies for the character Lt. Natasha “Phoenix” Trace, portrayed by Monica Barbaro, who Heflin said played the role perfectly.
There’s a lot of risk in military aviation, and nearly every single one of those risks was combined in the movie version dramatizing what they do, Cummings said. Debriefs after a mission can last for five or six hours, and that’s where a lot of learning occurs, he added. It also comes from harsh self-reflection and introspection, McLaughlin said.
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