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Air Force fighter pilots train in tactic that scopes out enemy targets, By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
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June 9th 04, 05:09 PM
Ed Rasimus
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On 09 Jun 2004 15:41:45 GMT,
(OXMORON1) wrote:
Ed wrote:
Reread the last sentence of my post slowly. Savor the nuance. You met
a few pilots assigned to fly fighters.
But Ed, they all claimed to be "fighter pilots". That is the trouble, "everyone
wants to be a fighter pilot" not all who make the claim are fighter pilots.
Thus my claim that some "fighter pilots" are "pukes".
You have to watch your step in a stag bar with a bunch of people who "look"
like "fighter pilots" Hell there might even be a WSO in the crowd!
Oxmoron1
The WSO might even be a "Fighter-gator" or, worse yet, a "Bear".
I used to tell the new guys in my squadron that they flew fighters.
They would be a "Fighter Pilot" when someone else told them they were.
Until then, they were authorized to say they "fly fighters."
You can always tell a fighter pilot....but you can't tell him much.
Cheers, and check six.
Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
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