For looping the Golden Gate Bridge, flying at a low level down Market Street in San Francisco, and blowing the clothes off of an Oakland woman’s clothesline, Bong was reprimanded (…) General Kenney later wrote, “We needed kids like this lad.”

Dick Bong, the loose cannon that Air Force couldn’t do without.

With a name like that you are destined for weapons-grade mischief.

The United States Marine Corps once had a Staff Sergeant named Max Fightmaster.

Also, there was a NASCAR driver of note named Dick Trickle, the only man in motorsports named for a symptom of enlarged prostate.

Ground Control to Major Bong

Second funniest name after this guy.