My son and I were visiting the Mojave Spaceport a few years back and met a pilot of a Boeing EA-18G Growler. He and his backseat EW officer were en-route to Denver to have lunch with the pilot’s dad. We thought that was so cool.
I live between three airfields where reserve pilots fly c17s, C5s, helicopters, and f15s. Having the Dad at a soccer game who had to go fly to Afghanistan or some other place after the game took a little getting used to....