The Military Aviator
 

The Military Aviator As Seen by Himself:

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-made quick draw holster along with his trusty 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-4, 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 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 trusty survival knife.

As seen by Wing Headquarters:

The embodiment of a drunken, brawling, jeep stealing, woman corrupting, lying, zipper-suited Sun God, with a ring, a proscribed 1911A1 .45 in a non-regulation shoulder holster, a Rolex watch, who for some reason carries a survival knife.

As seen by the DoD:

An overpaid, rule-ignoring, over-ranked tax burden, who is unfortunately 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 implacable face of death!

I haven't seen or heard the term B-4 bag in many years.

Brings back memories, some good, some bad.

As someone that has worked with a multitude of current and former fighter pilots, that's good stuff.

I got that from my dad, who was a pilot in the Air Force. More than once I heard him answer the question "what do you do for a living" with "I am a professional killer."

That phrase has been used for 11bravo's as well.

I've always thought that the Army should adopt the same mentality as the Marines.....You're primary MOS is 11B (a killer), but your secondary job is whatever you do on a daily bases (supply clerk, fuel handler, etc.). Sometimes I think the military lost their focus on our main mission because we’re inadated with more admin training (i.e. sensitivity training, sexual harrassment training) which takes away training time that should be used for MOS (Military Occupation Specialty) training.