On Fri, 7 May 2004 06:39:09 -0600, "Jeff Crowell"
wrote:

Cub Driver wrote:
Fighter pilots do like to get into trouble on their days off, don't
they?

Heh. Not that I was ever a fighter pilot, but...

I do remember foindly the time I got thrown out of an Air
Farce O-Club because a particularly stuffy general took a
disliking to my and my buds' Scarves, Flying, Field
Expedient, Type I ( an appropriate length of toilet paper,
wrapped round our necks). Hell, everyone else in the
place had a scarf on at Happy Hour, and at least our
zoombags showed some sign of having been worn to fly
that day.

I recall one of the waning days of my mediocre aviation career,
dropping into Nellis for a weekend X-C. Head to the Q for a quick
douche, don the finest civvies, splash a bit of "sure-****" on the
face so's I smell delightful and head to the bar.

Sure enough the place is Friday night packed with intrepid aviators
and that pleasant by-product of Top Gun "The Movie", the Fighter-Pilot
Groupie!

A few toddys and I strike up a conversation with an attractive young
prospect who seems amenable to dinner and possibly some post-prandial
activities. When I invite her out, she looks and says, "but you aren't
a pilot."

I reply that most assuredly I am--possibly the best and undoubtedly
the most combat experienced aviator in the room.

She says, "no you're not. You're not wearing a flight suit."

So much for the rewards for being clean and well-groomed in a fighter
pilot bar.



Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8