---
title: "Is That Another Sky Penis Above Another US Military Base?"
date: "2018-06-14"
modified: "2018-06-14"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/sky-penis-alaska-air-force-base/"
categories:
  - "Aircraft"
  - "Culture"
  - "Fighter Aircraft"
  - "Mandatory Fun"
  - "Tech & Tactics"
---

# Is That Another Sky Penis Above Another US Military Base?

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/02/18988855-1.png>)

If there's one thing that helps bridge the civil-military divide between service members and nasty civilians like myself, it's an appreciation of giant dicks drawn in the sky by cocksure aviators.

An airman [shared](<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1932182896794163&set=p.1932182896794163&type=3&theater>) a snapshot in the popular Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook group on Wednesday of what appears to be a half-finished, moderately flaccid sky penis plastered across the gorgeous blue skies above Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/02/image-placeholder-title-89.png>)

Is that ... is that a dick?

Maybe we're just seeing things and the contrail in the photo was simply the byproduct of a standard aviation exercise; maybe I just see dicks everywhere like my therapist keeps telling me.

Or maybe some cocky aviator realized he wouldn't land in much hot water for a wanton sky penis: The two Navy aviators responsible for scrawling a massive sky penis above Okanogan County, Washington, last November were hit with six-month probationary period, the military justice equivalent of scrawling “I will not draw dicks in the sky” on a classroom chalkboard.

So. Is that a sky dick? Or do I just have sky penis on the brain? Either way, I can anticipate what the Pentagon's response might be.

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## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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