Marines and flight attendants

Email a former adopted solider of mine (we’ll call him “John”) the other day, I learned that he is back in school and studying something to do with aviation. I asked what his degree would lead to as a job and laughingly asked if it would qualify him to become a flight steward. He laughed and said he was sure that wasn’t in his future.

Now John is a Marine, and I adopted him during his Iraq deployment in 2005-2006. He’s still in the Marines.

I got to thinking, what if all flight attendants were members of the military? How would that pre-flight safety presentation change?

“Hi, I’m Sgt John of the US Marine Corp, and I’ll be your flight attendant today. OohRah! In the case of emergency you will receive clear and forceful direction from me, and you will obey. As for any terrorists that might be on this plane I will be carrying my side arm, and I am trained in hand-to-hand combat and will use extreme prejudice. To anyone else that wants to get snippy with me or cause a disturbance, I have advanced training in clipping elbows with a drink cart.”

John thought this was really funny. We decided that it would make YouTube about 3 seconds after the plane landed.