Rooster - Fighter Pilot: Flying and Fighting for the USA - Saunders Usaf (Ret), Col Scott
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Rooster-Fighter Pilot is a riveting story about a boy who had a dream about flying. He lived out his dream by going to the U.S. Air Force Academy, becoming a fighter pilot flying and fighting in air-to-ground combat and air-to-air training in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia. He is still flying today instructing and flying Angel Flight patients to their doctors.

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Rooster-Fighter Pilot is a riveting story about a boy who had a dream about flying. He lived out his dream by going to the U.S. Air Force Academy, becoming a fighter pilot flying and fighting in air-to-ground combat and air-to-air training in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia. He is still flying today instructing and flying Angel Flight patients to their doctors.
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Col. Scott "Rooster Saunders, USAF (Ret) Colonel Scott "Rooster" Saunders is a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force where he served as a combat pilot flying the F-4, F-5, and F-15, a Headquarters USAF Requirements Program Element Manager, the USAF Requirements Directorate Executive Officer at The Pentagon, and the Deputy Commander in Chief for the United Nations Command Executive Officer in the Republic of Korea. He is author of Creation of a French Aggressor Squadron and a Proposal Handbook. He flew 25 combat missions in Southeast Asia and has flown over 10,000 air-to-air training engagements as a T-38A/F-5E/F Aggressor and F-15 A/B/C/D pilot. He also was influential at The Pentagon, spearheading the incorporation of a breakthrough air-to-air gunsight, AIMGUNS while serving on the Air Staff. He completed his service to his country as the Vice Wing Commander of the 36th Air Base Wing at Andersen AB, Guam, a strategic forward base in Asia. Since his retirement from the Air Force, he has acted as Proposal Manager for sixty-five proposals for defense contracts including one for the U.S Army at this writing. Rooster-Fighter Pilot is a riveting story about a boy who had a dream about flying. He lived out his dream by going to the U.S. Air Force Academy, becoming a fighter pilot flying and fighting in air-to-ground combat and air-to-air training in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and Asia. He is still flying today instructing and flying Angel Flight patients to their doctors. He has a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy, a Master of Science in International Relations from Troy State University and has graduated from the French War College program at École Militaire in Paris France. He completed two course of instruction. The first one was the École Supérieure de Guerre Aérienne (Superior School of Air Warfare) and the second one was the Cours Supérieur Interarmées (Superiour Interarmy School, or Senior Joint Warfare School). He has had Air Force assignments in five overseas countries and travelled to 43 countries. He speaks fluent French, which helped earn him the highest grade a foreign student ever won for his thesis on creating a French Aggressor squadron. He was also awarded the highest honor in the Federal Aviation Agency for a pilot, the prestigious The Wright Brothers "Master Pilot" Award. He also won the Academic trophy in Undergraduate Pilot Training and The Commandant's Award at the Defense Language Institute. Rooster provides flight instruction in single-engine and multi-engine aircraft and flies patients to their doctors. He has flown 3,800 hours in the Air Force and 1,300 hours in General Aviation. He has flown 125 Angel Flights. He is married to Rhonda Saunders and has three children (Jennifer, Scott III, and Matt) and seven grandchildren (Isabella, Caroline, Ethan, Amelia, Catherine, Adalyn, and Ethan) from his late wife Patty Saunders.