Where was Top Gun when things were hot?

WRITE me off as a hard-bitten former naval infantryman, but recent published reports of George Bush landing at campaign stops in the presidential helicopter to piped-in music from the movie Top Gun has got to be some kind of sick joke.

Is this not the same man who used his family connections to get into the National Guard to avoid a combat billet in south-east Asia?

In all fairness to Mr Bush, as a US marine sergeant in Vietnam I know that my platoon and I were able to kip down for a few quick winks between rocket attacks and ground assaults, safe in the knowledge that he was protecting the homeland skies over Alabama.