Mitchell will return to the Top Gun flight school to serve as its newest instructor, and one of his students is Miles Teller’s Bradley Bradshaw, son of Mitchell’s deceased wingman, Nick “Goose” Bradshaw.
Taking place over three decades after the events of Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick sees Peter “Maverick” Mitchell still flying for the military, but only holding the rank of captain, even though a man with his career usually would be a two-star admiral by now.