Peuce, apart from a deployment at the beginning of the current conflict in Iraq, I don't recall our pointy end poking anything much in the last 30 years!
Once you got over the thrill of blasting around in a Hornet or a Pig, all that "pretend" would have to wear thin.
"What did you do at work today Mommy/Daddy?"
"Ahhh, well, ahhh, I deterred a Cessna 172 from interfering with the opening ceremony at the Commonwealth Games"!
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