True funny story, but also somewhat sad in hindsight how the military doesn't routinely trust its members with firearms.
Three of us who graduated college together in '87 ended up going into the military to fly airplanes, two of us in the Air Force, one in the Navy. The one who went in the Navy ended up flying F-14's (the coolest assignment out of the three). He ended up patrolling the Iraq no-fly zone during Desert Shield. I talked with him after his cruise. Conversation below.
Him: We were packing heat.
Me: Well, I imagine you had a full load-out of guns and missiles.
Him: No, I mean they issued us a 9mm.
Me: Let me get this straight. You were flying a fully armed F-14 off a carrier in the Gulf, patrolling the Iraqi no-fly zone, and you're most excited about the fact that you got to carry a pistol?
Him: Well ... it was cool!
BTW - He was a huge Miami Vice fan and thought he was Sonny Crockett, so getting to carry a pistol in a shoulder holster was probably "it" for him.
Three of us who graduated college together in '87 ended up going into the military to fly airplanes, two of us in the Air Force, one in the Navy. The one who went in the Navy ended up flying F-14's (the coolest assignment out of the three). He ended up patrolling the Iraq no-fly zone during Desert Shield. I talked with him after his cruise. Conversation below.
Him: We were packing heat.
Me: Well, I imagine you had a full load-out of guns and missiles.
Him: No, I mean they issued us a 9mm.
Me: Let me get this straight. You were flying a fully armed F-14 off a carrier in the Gulf, patrolling the Iraqi no-fly zone, and you're most excited about the fact that you got to carry a pistol?
Him: Well ... it was cool!
BTW - He was a huge Miami Vice fan and thought he was Sonny Crockett, so getting to carry a pistol in a shoulder holster was probably "it" for him.