An Officer, Not a Gentleman: The inspirational journey of a pioneering female fighter pilot

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I was a bit mystified that alcohol still seemed to hold its central place in aviation ranks, and that girlie pics still adorned walls of flyboy barracks, but the story is told from a twenty-years ago perspective, so perhaps that's changed.

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She doesn’t focus on it too much and just gets on with the job - She doesn’t really see gender even though is sometimes acutely reminded of it. I’m ex army and for me it just reinforces the divide between the forces when it comes down to the hard life the raf have of having to go to Vegas and partying all the time. A slightly overrated bit of hackery whose ending has been transplanted into any number of different sketches. Winger herself is unconcerned, saying in a 2002 Guardian interview that “I run in to Richard Gere quite a lot and he half jokes: ‘Are you still saying terrible things about me?

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Besides ogling Richard Gere – which isn’t for everyone – Louis Gossett Jr is the best part of An Officer and a Gentleman. Ms Hickson's fine little book is more than just the dog's nuts, it's a well crafted memoir detailing her perilous rise in aviation to become the first 'fast-jet' pilot in the RAF. The positive reviews of his role in the film led to Keith working solidly for the next thirty years as both an actor and a director. I’m curious about her social life and how that’s been affected by being a person in a leadership position– if at all.

Mandy’s story is compelling, inspiring and i would highly recommend putting this book on your wish list, ready to read next. Speaking at a film festival in 2012, Richard said: "Every once and awhile, I could be jet lagged somewhere all over the world and An Officer and a Gentleman is playing on MTV in the middle of the night and I’ll watch a scene or two. This book tells the tale of Mandy Hickson (nae Wells) from her early years and how she became a pilot and all the self-doubt that comes with being a woman in a mostly male dominated world. It was a fantastic insight into the male dominated world of the fast jet pilot and kept me interested from start to finish. Aka my aforementioned BFF (Airforce; US) and my dad (Army; Singapore - during the time the British were still training their colonies).

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Hilarious at times, at others I asked myself, why would you want to do that but told with a detachment to the actual business of war it's about the author, her life and trials and achievements.Seriously, I had listened to the opening of the book and decided that I needed to put aside the time and was not disappointed.

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So yeah, this film's theme song's lyrics aren't exactly written by Billy Joel, and yet, it's still one of your better '80s movie theme songs, so it would appear as though Joe Cocker didn't rather gratuitously growl his throat into dust. After her role as Lynette Pomeroy in An Officer and a Gentleman, Lisa Blount went back to college in 1986 at San Francisco State University where she completed her degree in Theatre Arts and starred as the female lead in Hair in 1987 . As someone with a pilots licence I can fully appreciate the desire, passion and thrill of flying, even if it's just small aircraft for me and not fighter jets! Lee Ermey, the real former drill instructor who became an icon with his performance in Full Metal Jacket. I., Colombo, Frasier and The Sopranos, Loggia starred in Scarface in 1983 as main supporting character Frank Lopez and in Independence Day opposite Will Smith in 1996.I applaud Mandy for getting to the dizzy heights of a Tornado Pilot at a time when equality was maybe just starting to change a bit for the better. Unbeknownst to the 30-year-old actor at the time was that he would go on to become one of the most famous leading men of his generation and star in some of the most successful movies of all time. Certainly, enough bite can be found within the story concept and directorial touches for the final product to come out as rewarding, but really, there just isn't a whole lot going on, with the more prominent military angle being compelling yet almost blandly minimalist, and the romance angle all but bringing things to a whiplash halt. In fact, it derived originally from Ermey, who coached Gossett to use it, then went on to use the line himself in Full Metal Jacket.