Got a letter from an occasional reader today, a letter from the old days it seems. Back before there were strike fighter pilots to ease the burden of self-regard that simple fighter pilots labored under. I thought it would be worth sharing – it’s a very short story:
One day, long, long ago there was this Fighter Pilot who, surprisingly, /Was Not/ full of sh!t….
But it was a long time ago…. And it was just one day.
The End
Thanks to BillC.
Update: Speaking of Navy, the Mids are off on tear in basketball this season, the Sovs Russia and Venezuela are practicing that blackshoe stuff, and as of this writing, there are only three days one hour, 14 minutes and 26 seconds until Navy beats Army in Philadelphia.
I’ve already told my husband, who takes over the TV on weekends for football watching, not only of pro games, but also of selected college games, that this Saturday is sacred to my watching the Army-Navy game. He looked at me with wide eyes and said, “but that’s a really good game and I would be watching it anyway.”
Whatever.
Marianne
Geez, Marianne…don’t be handing over evidence of “that’s just the way they are” for us guys to toss back as a contraian nature of the feminine type.
Dangerous, indeed, ’round these parts.
Yeah, and BEAT ARMY!
I haven’t checked the schedules yet, but there’s another game I’ll need to be watching… maybe there won’t be a conflict.
Go Navy & ROLL TIDE!!
I’m conflicted. Of course I want to say “Go ARMY, Beat navy.
But the only West Point has ever done for me was send me Second Lieutenants, and I’m not sure I can forgive them for that…
Brad…I’m right there with you. Based on the 2LTs that they keep sending to MacGyver’s company (that I keep having to break in because they get tasked to “help” the FRG), I’m tempted to root for Navy on this one.
Brad/HF6: where’s the love in this time of peril?!?! we need all parties acting in concert!
MissBirdlegs: evidently you must be mistaken, for there CAN NOT ever be a conflict. simply not allowed. wouldn’t be right. unseemly.
you may all now simonize your watches: as of now, there are 02days 21hr 02min until Army delivers the drubbing to those scurvy squids that they so richly deserve!
Been wearing the Army uniform for over 30 years and have yet to ever get excited about this particular game. ‘Course having been commissioned RA coming out of ROTC at a State University may have something to do with my lack of interest. Another up side of that was all the benefits w/o having to be institutionalized for four years… .
Lex,
This very short story author… by any chance did Mr. C mention that he was an F-4 guy in the old days?
Beat Army!
Go, you BLUE and GOLD!
BEAT Army!!!
Something in that story reminded me of the long ago rebuttal to the USAF statement about the F16 being the (then) spiritual successor to the F4. It was nicely crafted and put the lawn dart bunch nicely in their place. Too bad I’ve lost my original text of it. Anyone else remember it?
“Blackshoe stuff” is what makes “brownshoes” possible.
Remember Navy has a secret weapon in this game, Marines.
Go Navy
Big Foot Tom,
When they first came out the question was “How do you get hold of an F-16″
Buy two acres of land and wait…
For Sonarsenior. I’ve got around 3k hours in A4’s but the author of that short story was an F4 bubba.
Bill C, welcome to LORC. We keep growing and growing.
xairboss
LORC ? Can the flight surgeon make it go away?
Bill C- Yow! Had not heard that one. After a full career in the USN (AVCM) F11’s, A6’s, A7’s, and the last GMU, I retired and had my second career in the USAF. (Equivalent of NAESU-AFETS) Worked 111’s, EF’s, and 16’s. 16’s are still my least favorite collections of spare parts flying in close formation.
Bill C, I’m affraid that even the flight surgeon can’t fix this affliction – Lex’s Occasional Readers Club. Welcome aboard.
Bill C.,
Thanks. I am engaged to the daughter of an F-4 guy who would go by Bill C. He was Rug to his Bedeviler squadron mates.
btw: time now is 02d 01h 36m until.
..Beat Navy.
E Yat, I’m glad you ’splained that. I must have missed it the first bout, best I could find was summat to do with the ‘Lord of Our Righteous Church’, which somehow didn’t scratch the itch.
Geo6, I’m with you… for me, and I would wager for the rest of the world it’s just such a Ho Hum event… Best
Lex, guess we’ll just have to update that dictionary you are using.
geo and snake eater,
I guess I never understood your sentiment (I’ve heard it from others, too). I realize you didn’t go to WP, but you certainly have more in common with those players than 99% of other athletes. I know if there was a team made up of ROTC cadets from random schools, I would root like heck for them over any other team of ATHLETE-students from football factory U.