Fade in Exterior Naval Air Station – Tarmac – High Noon Sun pounding. Jet engines roar. Pilots stride with purpose and determination. Tension crackles in the humid air. Commander “Viper” Metcalf glares at Raymond “Juicebox” Babbitt (Dustin Hoffman), who stands stiff, clutching a laminated flight schedule. Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell smirks nearby, sunglasses glinting. Viper (growling) You’re telling me you’re the best damn pilot in this program? Juicebox Uh-oh. Yeah. Uh, definitely best. Judge Wapner, at four o’clock. Maverick (mocking) Oh, we’re in trouble now. Viper This isn’t some joyride, Juicebox. You got bogeys on your tail, you don’t start reciting People’s Court rulings. You react. Juicebox No joyrides. Ten…
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When the Sky’s the Limit Top Gun training goes public, leaving experts and teens dizzy
January 25, 2025 By: Dobrivoje Cvetković The Nebojša’s Courier, Kruševac, Serbia In a move that has raised eyebrows higher than a supersonic jet on takeoff, the Department of the Navy has opened its elite Top Gun Flight Training Program to civilians. Among the program’s first participants is 16-year-old Trevor Bicklesworth III, a Beverly Hills High School senior who, just weeks after earning his learner’s permit, received the ultimate graduation gift: a weekend of combat training in an F-14 Tomcat. “Gee willikers!” Trevor exclaimed while adjusting his new Ray-Bans during an exclusive interview. “First, I got my learner’s permit, and now I get to fly an F-14 Tomcat. How cool is…
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Four Scores and Countless Metaphors Abraham Lincoln’s New Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln wrote and delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the American Civil War. The speech was intended to honor the soldiers who had died in the Battle of Gettysburg and to reaffirm the principles of liberty and equality that the United States was founded upon. Lincoln is known to have drafted the speech himself. And therein lay the problems. Lincoln’s Original Gettysburg Address “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we…
