Military records
He completed his secondary education in Varamin and entered the pilot school at the age of 18, and in 1975 he was sent to the United States to complete a two-year pilot training course. In 1977 he flew a Northrop F-5 at Dezful base, and in early 1957 he was transferred to Tabriz base as a fighter pilot. Khalili was one of the youngest pilots to fly a fighter jet in the United States. He was a 24-year-old pilot with the rank of first lieutenant at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, and along with a number of other pilots, passed the F-14 Tomcat training course in 1981. The Army Air Force has officially named him the youngest pilot in the front seat of the Tomcat during the war and the luckiest fighter pilot.References