Pretty damn funny, and pretty true too…Â
The Naval Aviator As Seen by Himself:
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An incredibly intelligent, tall, handsome, innovative, and highly trained professional killer, idol to countless females, and Gentleman Adventurer, who wears a star sapphire ring, carries a hair-trigger .45 automatic in a specially designed hand-stitched, quick draw holster along with his trusty pearl-handle survival knife, who is always on time thanks to his ability to obtain immediate transportation and the reliability of his Rolex watch.
   As Seen by His Wife:
A disreputable member of the family who comes home once a year all bruised up, driving a stolen jeep up to the back door carrying a B-4 bag full of dirty laundry, wearing a stained flight suit, smelling of stale booze and JP-5 jet fuel, wearing a huge watch, a fake ring, and that damn ugly beat-up pistol in that stupid holster, who will three months later go out the front door, thankfully for another year.
As Seen by His Squadron Commander:
A fine specimen of a drunken, brawling, jeep stealing, woman corrupting liar, with a star sapphire ring, fantastically accurate Rolex watch, an unauthorized .45 in a non-regulation shoulder holster, and rusty survival knife.
The embodiment of a drunken, brawling, jeep stealing, woman corrupting, lying, zipper-suited Sun God, with a ring, a proscribed 1911 A1 .45 in a non-regulation shoulder holster, a Rolex watch, who for some reason carries a survival knife.
As Seen by the Dept of Defense:
An overpaid, rule-ignoring, over-ranked tax burden, who is unfortunate totally indispensable simply because he has volunteered to go anywhere, and do anything, at any time, only so long as he can booze it up, brawl, steal  jeeps, corrupt women, lie, and wear a star sapphire ring, Rolex watch, and carry an obsolete hand gun and a survival knife.
   As Seen by the Enemy:
The fearless, terrifying face of death who will fire a missile up your ass, and laugh as you burn up in you aircraft!  Yep…….that pretty much sums it up!Â
And it wasn’t a Jeep, it was a Ford Staff car… And that issue POS Victory pistol might or might not even fire… Not that I know anything about either of those… 🙂
And Instinct reminded me I’d missed the Maintenance perspective…
As seen by the maintenance crew:
The embodiment of a drunken, brawling, over-paid, jeep stealing, woman corrupting, oxygen huffing, zipper-suited child, with a ring, a 1911 A1 .45 in a non-regulation shoulder holster made by the seat shop, a Rolex watch, who for some reason carries a survival knife and couldn’t fill out a VIDS/MAF to save his soul except to say “I think it’s not working right”.
h/t JP
And go check out Gina Elise at www.pinupsforvets.com, she is doing visits, calendars and other things for our vets and Wounded Warriors… Any support you can throw her way is appreciated…Â
h/t Msgt B
