Not-so-straight shooter

摘要

Regular readers might recall that my first Made In America installment ended with an ill-fated "flight" in a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor cockpit demonstrator. During that experience, I ably demonstrated that I did not miss my calling to the U.S. Air Force, essentially collapsing into an ineffective bowl of journalistic gelatin when confronted with the world's most advanced life-or-death video game. Still smarting from that fiasco and, therefore, anxious to redeem my dignity, I'd been looking forward to firing an M4 for months. And I was about to get my chance.