So what do you suppose Maverick has been doing all these years?
Let's speculate.
The relationship with Charlie never worked out, how could it. Maverick will always love fighter jets more than any woman.
Maverick was all Goosed up...
[Really?-Ed]
...for Desert Storm but ultimately found it unsatisfying. All those Combat Air Patrols without a single engagement.
Maverick was at the infamous Tail Hook conference of 1991, but left the hotel when he saw where things were headed.
Maverick grew bored flying No Fly Zone patrols and boarder still in the Yugoslav War. Ten years after his famous battle over the Indian Ocean Maverick applied for the NASA astronaut training program and passed. He crewed several shuttle missions but was banned from piloting the shuttle after completing a barrel role over White Sands.
In 2001 Maverick went back into carrier aviation just in time for 9/11, and earned his fourth kill shooting down a Taliban helicopter. He became the first American Ace since the Vietnam War when he shot down an Iraqi Mig in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
After that Maverick was the CAG on two Indian Ocean cruises but lost his most recent CAG assignment for scheduling extra-aggressive Combat Air Patrols in the South China Sea.
Ultimately the war for which Maverick was needed never arrived.
He would have had a great time in the Battle of the Barents Sea. I wonder if I ...
[No, you can't.-ed]
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