Two weekends ago I took the long and treacherous road down to Virginia Beach to visit my longtime friend and former-co-boat-owner, Adam King. The main road from Washington DC area going South to VA is I95. It should be call I9.5 if we're talking speed limits. What google maps told me would be a 3 hour trip turned into a 5 hour parking lot extravaganza. Luckily I had the new Foo Fighters CD to accompany me (thanks baby!) and lots and lots of abhorring VA drivers. 
After passing through the Bridge Tunnel that stretches across the Chesapeake I arrived on the Virginia Beach side of the eastern coast of the state. Adam lives in a house relatively close to the OCEANA NAS base where he plays Navy...is in the Navy, sorry.
Adam is an Aircraft engineer of sorts and he works on the ejection seat systems and the environmental control areas of the F18 Superhornets.
The planes are made out of a composite, mainly plastic based, but renders them extremely tough and durable, kind of like hundreds of layers of seatbelts stretched out and compiled into a multi-million dollar fighting machine.There's not a flat surface on the jet; every square inch has a slight curve to it which helps to evade radar.
Unfortunately Adam took it a little too far and turned the beast on unbeknownst to me. Luckily I work at Discovery channel where I learned the best way to evade a jet engine, which is screaming.
Adam's squadron is the Jolly Rogers, and apparently they have won more awards and achievements in things like safety, efficiency, and best squadron numerous times. How could you not with such a mascot?
