It can only get better- http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/top-gun
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If she inspired Top Gun she worked at Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar. Miramar was transferred to the Marines (thus going from being an NAS to an MCAS) over a decade after Top Gun.
But in the end, it was Goose who was the male sex fantasy to Maverick.
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Do you think The Starfighters was an early attempt to curb enthusiasm for jets?
It’s a good thing that Demi Moore changed all that when G.I. Jane came out years later.
That volleyball scene inspired many a confused young person, I imagine.
How true this actually is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzY9a-WmE6o
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Not necessarily “fetishizing,” but I hear some strange radio ads for military hardware around Washington, D.C. And by “strange” I mean that the ads exist at all. Given that one KC-45 would cost hundreds of millions of dollars, exactly who’s going to buy one? Would that person have been completely ignorant about the KC-45 if it weren’t for the radio ad? More likely, these ads are targeted at purchasing officials, or possibly legislators, but that’s still a very narrow target for a radio ad. Anything to get “KC-45” repeating in the dozen or so relevant brains, I guess. (And it isn’t just radio – I’ve seen these ads in Metro stations. They seem to be in stations closer to the Pentagon, but still, the Pentagon has to go thru procurement etc.)
Thinking back, I can vaguely remember “Peace through Strength” advertisements in the DFW area, where Lockheed and LTV were big employers at the time. Around the same time as… Top Gun. (EDIT: And Iron Eagle, which I remember was out within a few weeks of the air raid on Libya.)
That’s what they WANT you to believe. But the real answer is, well duh… Aliens!
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