Our air-to-air training rules enforce safety during high-risk training, and we professional adversaries like to refer to ourselves as the "Keepers of the training rules." To a large extent, we generally do a great job of this; RTOs (range training officers), RSOs (range safety officers), and red GCI (ground-controlled intercept) controllers are all important links in the situational-awareness-building chain that red air uses to "keep" the training rules. Blue air is also responsible for following these same training rules. But, we have times when everyone can do everything by the rules and still arrive at a frightening and unsafe situation.
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