Navy TOPGUN graduate and F/A-18 fighter pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley detailed the brain injuries he and many of his fellow pilots suffer as a result of years of high-speed flight maneuvers.

The Navy quietly started screening elite fighter pilots for signs of brain injuries caused by flying, a risk it officially denies exists.

A powerful congressional committee is probing a secret Navy program studying potential traumatic brain injuries suffered by the service’s aviators, which may have led to the recent suicides of at least three Super Hornet pilots.