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[quark]

The Services have special dream jobs like this for a few of their best people -- steely-eyed warriors with hard ***** who just want to fly jets and teach other steely-eyed warriors how to do the same. No desk job, no staff assignment...just flyin' & fightin' (sigh).

And that's why bad guys of any stripe -- SandMonkeys, Commies, Banana Republic Dictators, The Mongol Hordes, Democrats -- don't have a chance. We have freedom-loving killers ready to do rough justice to all these @$$holes.

[mowowie]

Kind of guy i’d like to have a drink with.
I’m buying!

[lightman]

He’s a heck of a guy. I remember going groundhog hunting with him on his grandfather’s farm a few times when he was on leave from the Academy.

A true officer and gentleman.

[Ratblaster]

I just read that an F16 costs $3600 p/hr to fly. Times 6000, comes out to be $21.6 million. And the F16 is our economy model.
The price of freedom is not cheap, but it’s mostly well spent.

[Publius6961]

Kudos for another anonymous American hero. Men like this always remind me of this other side of the coin which, sadly, is more common today:

"A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. " -- John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862