Local Squadron Discovers Namesake was a Porn Star

The members of Civil Air Patrol’s ‘Lt Col Gary P. Cash Composite Squadron’ were shocked to learn that a former member and retired Air Force officer was a star of pornographic movies.

“He was always asking for uniforms with extra room in the crotch,” recalls Maj Phil Remillard, the unit’s supply officer. “I don’t know why I didn’t make the connection before.”

The ‘connection’ Remillard refers to is the fact that from the mid-70s into the early 80s, the squadron’s namesake, Lt Col Gary Cash, made pornographic movies under the name ‘Ricky Rocket’. Lt Col Cash’s secret career was revealed after his widow’s recent death, when his heirs discovered a cache of movies in a locked room in the basement of their home.

“They had titles like, ‘The One-Eyed Rocket’ and ‘Deep Into Your Space’. We thought they dated to his days at NASA,” said one of Cash’s relatives. “But they didn’t.”

Gerald P. ‘Gary’ Cash was an Air Force officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel after 28 years of service. He served as a meteorologist and spent many years forecasting weather for NORAD launches at Cape Canaveral. After retiring from the Air Force, he worked as a project engineer for Rockwell Aviation. He joined Civil Air Patrol in the early 1980s at the then King’s Composite Squadron and quickly became a valued member of the unit.

“He served for years, and he did everything we asked. He was the commander twice. Renaming the unit seemed an obvious choice,” explained Capt Susan Franco, the unit commander. “The Cadets loved him. The Seniors did, too. Heck, everybody did. Gary was a great guy. A people pleaser.”

Members of the unit are now questioning the symbolism of their patch, which was designed shortly after Gary’s death, when the squadron was renamed in his honor. The patch features a green, phallic-looking ‘rocket’ emerging at a 45-degree angle from a white cloud that resembles a mass of 70s-era pubic hair.

“I never thought anything of it,” said one squadron member off the record. “But now that I know, every time I look at it I can’t help seeing a Grinch dick.”

About the patch, Franco said, “Several of the Seniors who knew Gary well and their spouses came up with the rename proposal and the patch design. The Wing Commander approved it and we adopted it. I didn’t think anything of it.”

ANN reached out to the Wing to ask how the obviously pornographically-themed patch had made it through review. “I don’t know how it got through,” stated wing Historian Maj Michael Stokes. “It doesn’t comply with the rules of tincture at all.”

Franco notes that the Seniors who designed the patch were all elderly, and have since left the unit. “They were all Gary’s age, and had known him for years. It was a very close unit back in the 80s and 90s, when they were younger. They’d spend evenings playing canasta, and weekends at a secluded cabin on the lake,” Franco says. She then trails off, “Oh…”

Overall, the unit’s members seem to be embracing the news about their former member. ANN spotted a graffito in the unit men’s room that stated, “Gary Cash was a steely-dicked missile man!”