In the five decades since my USAF service, the number from the F-111 Aardvark has remained a constant in my life. It's 111 has appeared as highway numbers, on receipts, within serial numbers on our currency, as a basketball game score—seemingly everywhere. And it was there again, this time in its more feral form, in a parking lot at the 2025 VFW National Convention, held a mile from where I live. I learned that this special license plate belonged to Marty Walter, who served in the USAF from 1987 to 1992, first as an F-111F Avionics Sensors Systems Specialist stationed at RAF Lakenheath in the UK. While there, he was deployed to Taif, Saudi Arabia, in support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Although he later worked on the LANTIRN system, a navigation and targeting pod on F-16s at Hill AFB in Utah, Marty told me that his first love was the F-111, hence his truck’s RDVRK license plate. His car’s plate, by the way, dates back to his F-16 days, LASER.