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How to be a fighter pilot

by bookofthecourtier

You know what? Screw talking about money on Friday like I usually do, I want to have some fun. So today, you get Harris’ authoritative guide on how to be a fighter pilot. What makes me the authority on fighter pilots? I happen to work with a bunch of real life fighter pilots, however I remain a detached third party because I myself am not a pilot. A-10 pilots, F-15 pilots, F-16 pilots, F-22 pilots, I know them all. After getting to know them, I’ve realized that being a fighter pilot isn’t about the jet. Well, the jet may be a tiny part of what makes a fighter pilot, but most of it comes from their unique characteristics. Here are things you have to do to be a real fighter pilot:

• Drink diet soda. Seriously. 100% of fighter pilots drink either Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Mountain Dew, or Diet Dr. Pepper. You wouldn’t believe how much these macho men (women are rare anomalies in the fighter world) love their sissy diet drinks.
  
• Never refer to something by its real name. This includes people. Coins become Round Metallic Objects, or RMOs. Everyone has a nickname to keep from using their real name, except you won’t call it a nickname, you’ll call it a callsign. Every unit has their own unique special names for stuff around the unit but a few are common across the community. Usually the penalty for calling something by its real name is having to donate $1 to the squadron fund or LPA. What’s the LPA? This brings us to our next point:
  
• Never ever refer to something with words when letters will suffice. This results in fighter pilots using a lot of TLAs, or Three Letter Acronyms. The LPA is the Lieutenant’s Protection Association, which is a club that all lieutenants automatically belong to that helps keep them out of trouble. You’ll hear pilots making fun of other pilots for losing their SA, or possibly asking where the HMFIC is.
  
• Have a fetish for children’s pajamas. What are the three most unique things about your pajamas as a kid compared to regular clothes? They are 1) a single garment, 2) have one big zipper down the front, and 3) fire retardant. The third one may not have been known to you as a kid, but all good children’s pajamas are fire retardant so they don’t melt on your kid if the house catches on fire. What are the three most unique things about a fighter pilot’s flight suit compared to regular clothes? You guessed it, they are 1) a single garment, 2) have one big zipper down the front, and 3) fire retardant.
  
• Turn anything and everything into a sexual innuendo or possibly a joke about someone being gay. This is perhaps the most important item on the list. If you can’t make a joke about your wingman’s meatball lunch or the way they put that bottle of Coke Zero up to their lips then you aren’t cut out to be a fighter pilot. If you say something and realize after the fact that it could have been construed sexually, then you must recover by adding “so to speak” to your sentence. If someone else says “so to speak” before you then you have just lost man points.
  
• Have a gigantic ego. If your current ego is not of sufficient size (so to speak), a larger one will be issued to you along with your wings.
  
• Have an amazing babe-dar (a radar for hot babes). A fighter pilot’s babe-dar can spot an attractive female before she even walks into a room. This is why all fighter pilots have hot wives, they saw them and moved to intercept before the non fighter pilots even knew they were there. Also some of their excess ego turns into charisma so they can be really charming to the ladies.
  
• Tell stories. A good fighter pilot can make his commute to work seem like a chase scene from Bullit. It’s not lying per se, embellishment would be a more accurate term.
  
• (optional) Drive a cool car.
  
• (optional) Grow a mustache during the month of March.
  
• (optional) Get drunk at work on Friday afternoons, sing stupid songs, and swap stories. This one may be the best part about working with a bunch of fighter pilots. Wait, I mean drinking at work is discouraged and they would never act so unprofessionally.
  
• (optional) Know how to fly a jet.
  

That’s pretty much all there is to being a fighter pilot. Sure, they do other things like studying and flying, but that only makes them pilots. To be a fighter pilot you have to be the best there is and follow the above list. I know I poked a little fun, but to be serious for just a second, these guys are great and I can say with 100% confidence that the reason we have the most powerful Air Force in the world is because we have the best pilots, hands down.

"all fighter pilots have hot wives..."

He must be referring to fighter pilots in Sweden or Norway.

The actual part of this post that begs for comment is the blue-kool-aid stain at the very end:

the reason we have the most powerful Air Force in the world is because we have the best pilots, hands down.

(optional) Grow a mustache during the month of March.

Was not aware that was optional.

Was not aware that was optional.

Still a relatively new trend. I'd never heard of it (outside of Korea) before 2004.

(optional) Know how to fly a jet.

I just knew all my hours of Falcon 4.0 would pay off someday...

I just knew all my hours of Falcon 4.0 would pay off someday...

I would have killed for 4.0...I only had 3.0. I guess that explains why I fly heavies now.

"HMFIC"?

It's MFWIC. Mother Fucker What's In Charge. I have no idea why it's What and not Who, but who fucking cares.

ASIP. Another Scotch Induced Post.

ASIP. Another Scotch Induced Post.

As it should be, sir, as they all should be.

"HMFIC"?

It's MFWIC. Mother Fucker What's In Charge. I have no idea why it's What and not Who, but who fucking cares.

ASIP. Another Scotch Induced Post.

HMFIC means Head Mother Fucker In Charge. I heard that before I heard of "mif-wick". Both valid in my opinion.

Head? who said head?

HMFIC means Head Mother Fucker In Charge. I heard that before I heard of "mif-wick". Both valid in my opinion.

That got started after "Lean on Me" came out and Morgan Freeman told a bunch of people that he was the "Head Norwegian In Charge", IIRC.

And I'll take some of that. And I did. And it was good.

That got started after "Lean on Me" came out and Morgan Freeman told a bunch of people that he was the "Head Norwegian In Charge", IIRC.

Heard both long before that movie....

Heard both long before that movie....

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Head? who said head?

I'll take some!

Giggity!

For free.

HMFIC means Head Mother Fucker In Charge.

Really? Thanks.

Really? Thanks.

Not insulting your intelligence or showing my masterful command of the obvious. Just making sure other folks knew that, unlike your statement, it is not just "MFWIC".

Head? who said head?

Very likely the reason that in some communities MFWIC is the chosen term.

Not insulting your intelligence or showing my masterful command of the obvious. Just making sure other folks knew that, unlike your statement, it is not just "MFWIC".

Very likely the reason that in some communities MFWIC is the chosen term.

Word. I reference the latter portion of my original post.

I'll take some!

And I did. And it was good. And then we partied like Vikings with horns on our hats. Him, Him....

Now where did I put my Jack and Coke?

And I did. And it was good. And then we partied like Vikings with horns on our hats. Him, Him....

Now where did I put my Jack and Coke?

What was his name?

What was his name?

Wow. I don't want to know what you are thinking.

Now let me go get my spare bottle of Jack Daniels. This ones running on empty.

Wow. I don't want to know what you are thinking.

Now let me go get my spare bottle of Jack Daniels. This ones running on empty.

Darth, is that you?!?

Also enjoying a cold beverage. To those downrange, to the Black Eagles, to the Panthers, to the Dragons! Attack!

Edited September 28, 201213 yr by Pancake

And I did. And it was good. And then we partied like Vikings with horns on our hats. Him, Him....

Now where did I put my Jack and Coke?

Partied like Vikings?

WTFO