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Introduction
If you happen to drive onto Tinker Air Force Base on a summer Saturday morning, you will notice a strange phenomenon. On the south side of the flag pole, taking up two parking spots, are a large number of F150s, F250s, Dodge Rams, and Chevy Super Cabs, hitched to boats of all kinds, but mostly bass boats. Since I am a new Air Force civilian employee (having only worked a bare 10 years), I have been told by seasoned employees that there used to be many more boats in the parking lot on Saturdays, and that the bass boat population has especially declined.
Why all the boats? The answer is overtime. Often, overtime becomes more like base pay, ...