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[[File:dos_gringos_2_cover_5444.jpg|frame|Proof that the American military is full of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Bunny Ears Lawyers]].]]
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If you're planning on checking these guys out, though, be aware--most of what ''Dos Gringos'' does are [[Bawdy Song|Bawdy Songs]] ''full'' of [[Refuge in Audacity|audacity]]. Suffice to say, these guys wouldn't be [[Not Safe for Work|work safe]] to listen to at a lot of places. Second, as they were written for the fighter pilot community (and associated personnel), their songs will sound like a second language to civilian listeners, unless they know quite a bit about NATO brevity code, fighter pilot slang, and USAF jargon. Well, except for the [[Cluster F-Bomb|profanity]]. That's a universal language.
Even though their tours and album-making are severely limited by being active duty pilots, they've become quite popular in the U.S. Air Force, other branches of the American military, and even with other national militaries--[[Small Reference Pools|Which of course means they're]] "[[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dos Gringos|non-notable]]" at [[The Other Wiki]]. You can thankfully still read [
=== Their songs include: ===
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* [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]]: ''The Predator Eulogy''. Fighter pilots '''hate''' [[The Scrappy|unmanned airborne vehicles]].
* [[Atomic F-Bomb]]: Happens in ''2's Blind'':
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* [[Badass Nickname]]: F-16 Fighting Falcon? Pssh, we call that the ''Viper'', thank you very much.
* [[Bawdy Song]]: [[Mathematician's Answer|Yep.]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]: ''At Least I'm Not the Snacko''. [[New Meat]] in American fighter squadrons are tasked with restocking snacks and beer for everyone else. ''The Legend of Shaved Dog's Ass'' also implies that the titular pilot was a snacko himself.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: ''Dos Gringos''' favored ordinance.
* [[A Date
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: ''The Legend of Shaved Dog's Ass.'' Yes, the pilot in the song was nicknamed "Shaved Dog's Ass"--and yes, [[Real Life]] fighter pilot callsigns usually ''are'' [http://www.f-16.net/callsigns.html Embarrassing Nicknames] (though they're abbreviated if they're ''that'' long).
* [[Fan Nickname]]: USAF pilots have quite a few of these for different aircraft, as touched on in ''Jeremiah Weed'' and a few other songs:
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* [[Ludd Was Right]]: ''JDAM Blues'' has shades of this, where [[Tech Marches On|new technology]] replaces the skill required of pilots on ground-attack missions.
* [[Military Academy]]: ''S.O.S.'' deals with the Squadron Officer School. ''S.O.S. is coming '''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|for you!]]'''''
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: ''[[Exactly What It Says
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]]: ''You Gotta Be in the Guard'' criticizes the increasing restrictions on pilot conduct in the U.S. Air Force--to the point that the Air National Guard is far more lax than the "real deal." There's a quote from the song in [[Political Correctness Gone Mad/Quotes|that trope's quote page]].
* [[Refuge in Audacity]] / [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]: A big ingredient in many, if not ''most'', of their songs.
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