Anonymous wrote:2. Is it a fairytale? The air force doesn't keep old geezers around.
The Air Force? Seriously? It's the Navy, sweetie.
And from the trailer, you can pretty quickly see that the premise of the movie IS that Maverick should have been promoted by now or moved on. That's a fairly common scenario - getting stuck at O-6 and never making flag officer (Admiral). Getting passed over a few times generally means you need to move on. That's the conversation that Maverick is having with his commanding officer in the opening scene of the trailer.