Four-Part Series Chronicles USMC WTI Course

Fox Nation, the American subscription video on-demand service, is making ready to debut a new series titled Top Combat Pilot. The show’s premise is Top Gun derivative and features U.S. Marine Corps UH-17 Venom, AH-1 SuperCobra, and F/A-18D Hornet pilots undergoing the service’s Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course in Yuma, Arizona.

The four-part series, which is slated to premier on 06 November 2023, will be hosted by actor Dennis Quaid (The Right Stuff, Breaking Away, The Big Easy) purports to offer audiences a behind-the-scenes look at one of the U.S. military’s most intense and competitive pilot training programs.

Top Combat Pilot, in accordance with the appellation, follows 25 combat pilots from around the Marine Corps as they endure an increasingly challenging succession of escalating maneuvers contrived for purpose of producing the Corp’s most revered Instructor Pilots (IPs).

Quaid remarked: "You spend any time around the students of WTI and you realize quickly, most never speak of competition, directly. Marines are a unit and they operate as one and each and every student pilot is gunning to be recognized by their WTI instructors as the very best on the flight line."

In a statement pertaining to the upcoming series, Fox Nation president Jason Klarman set forth: "Dennis Quaid not only played a pilot in the iconic movie The Right Stuff, but he is also a licensed pilot. We couldn't think of a better person to host this series."

The first episode of Top Combat Pilot introduces viewers to the 25 USMC pilots at the onset of the seven-week WTI training regimen to be chronicled throughout the remainder of the series. Episode-two depicts U.S. AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters defeating a Russian enemy and landing U.S. Navy SEALs atop an embassy being gradually overrun by enemy combatants. Stakes rise in episode-three, as the WTI exercises intensify, growing increasingly complex and expansive.

The series’s final episode documents the WTI curriculum’s FINal EXercise—FINEX, in USMC patois. Broadly, FINEX simulates a special operating forces raid during which pilots are tasked with contemporaneously carrying out subject raid and supporting regimental combat team objectives and focusing on conducting the entirety of Marine aviation’s six functions, as defined by their instructors.

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