Not long into my freshman year at the Air Force Academy, I attended a class function where an F-16 fighter pilot was giving an inspirational speech.
I remember being so excited to meet a real-life fighter pilot! My imagination ran wild with how cool the pilots inside such cool planes must look. I had visions of 80's movie super-hunks flashing through my head.
I was, after all, a skinny brown kid who grew up in rural Pennsylvania. But now, as an Air Force Academy cadet, I had the chance to shed my lame skinny self and become a gorgeous, muscular, heart-breaking, panty-melting, super pimp jet jockey.
The fighter pilot's name was called on stage and the audience stood up and clapped; I remember the incredible energy in the room all around me, until…
The person who stepped on stage was a short, bald guy with a pot belly.
There was a noticeable, awkward drop in the audience clapping. Heads started looking left and right, small smiles that hinted at a joke of some sort. I was absolutely certain there was a mistake, and the guy walking to the mic must be some kind of part-time Air Force Reserve bureaucrat.
But I was wrong. He was a fighter pilot, and his job was killing him…
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