Golden bee

From USAFA Folklore

The Golden Bee is a bar down at the Broadmoor Hotel. The bartenders occasionally toss sticky, embroidered golden bees onto their patrons. At some point [when?], cadets began putting these embroidered bees on the underside of the brim of their service caps. Shortly thereafter, the bees came to symbolize "kills," like the red stars on the side of Ritchie's F-4. While there are a number of opinions about what constitutes a "kill," the consensus is that one gets a golden bee for every time he or she has sex in the dorms. Because only so many golden bees can fit on the underside of a brim, blackening a bee with a Sharpie for every five kills does the trick. It does not have to be another cadet. Female cadets can get "kills" too.