re: What motivated you to join the military?

I kind of always had a plan, but if there were any doubts, I had a pretty compelling sales pitch. Got a fam ride in an F-4, I already had a lot of flight time. My mentor, in the brief, says, "I'm going to get the gear up for you, because we'll blow threw 250kts.(the limit for retraction,) pretty quick, but after the burners are lit, it's all yours." Within a minute we're looking at the curvature of the earth. I dug it.

ETA: I immediately suggested a new version of the g-suit, because the blood loss from the hard on,almost made me pass out.