I just finished this amazing book, it's written by Dan Pedersen, the founding father of Top Gun. It's written as his memoir in the Navy and how they were getting spanked in Vietnam and how him and 8 other pilots were given the go to create a training program for dogfight training at Miramar.

https://www.amazon.com/Topgun-American-Story-Dan-Pedersen/dp/0316416266