Spartan Cops have great information on there site, including several articles on COL John Boyd's theories. They have been gracious enough to allow me to link the articles here on the LESC site.

This article speaks to dedication and perseverance it takes to continuously strive to learn and evolve as a law enforcement officer in master all your skills. Take a look.

Fred

One of the reasons John Boyd was the greatest fighter pilot is because he was the master of his weapon, the F-100 Super Sabre. Among pilots, the F-100 was called “the Hun” which was short for hundred.

The Hun was a difficult aircraft to fly. It had a whole bunch of peculiarities that caused it to “depart flight”. One quarter of all the Huns in service crashed and many considered the plane a widow maker.

John Boyd loved the Hun’s eccentricities. He didn’t let the danger keep him from flying the Hun like every other aircraft he had flown. This meant that he flew it beyond the parameters of the instruction manual, trying a wide variety of unorthodox maneuvers to discover for himself the most effective tactics for the Hun’s abilities.

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