If a U.S. Air Force pilot, after mushing around in a plane so full of creeps that it should have been deadlined long ago, manages to get by an enemy pig, drop an aimable cluster for a shack, and then grease it in without bugging out or buying a farm, would he be likely to be a penguin? Last week non-airmen could find the answer to that question (no) in a special 16,500-word dictionary of fly-talk put out by the Air University. The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet, raunchy for sloppy,...
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