Are Coast Guard Pilots Real Pilots?

[sardaddy]

Well, having been awarded silver and gold. I will say that it doesn't really matter as long as they keep giving me the keys to the aircraft.

 

[TXDanno]

Ascot ! It's a scarf, man. It's as cool as those way cool "2500", "3000" hr. etc.. patches the dorks at AMC headquaters wear.:laugh:

On and off in the fighter community, hours have been annotated on the flightsuit by small silver diamonds or stars (1 per 500hrs) embroidered down on the bottom of the sleeve cuff. And if you had combat time, the diamond could be gold.
So a high-time fighter jock might have his three or four embroidered doodads, with one of them being gold.

Kind of loses its panache when, as cyclically happens, Hercs of one flavor or another reside in the fighter commands. Last thing a zipper-suited fighter jock wants to see is some TSgt or MSgt Flight Engineer or Aerial Gunner with 10 to 15 doodads, with a handfull of them gleaming gold. Better not compete with THAT guy at the bar...

 

[DaveGriffin]

Coasties are cool!

Hoisting shrimpers off their burning, sinking boats is dangerous. The AF couldn't do that.