“I Give the Orders Here,” He Shouted—Until I Told Him Who I Was

sounded impressive to a civilian but rang completely hollow to me. He mixed up aircraft capabilities, confused timelines, and described tactics that weren’t introduced until the Gulf War while claiming he’d used them in the 1980s.

He was a rooster puffing his chest, trying desperately to impress the hens.

“I was pulling six Gs,” he boasted at one point,continue reading …