I served my country in the Air Force now I serve beers in a bikini
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It’s a different kind of draft.
A California woman who claims she’s an Air Force veteran now moonlights as a bikini bartender, revealing that she gets “bigger tips” when her customers find out she served her country while serving them a cold one.
“Usually the customers assume I was kicked out of the military or only served a couple months and got a dishonorable discharge. Which is all untrue,” Cheyanne Long, 23, told The Post on Saturday.
“I served active duty in the Air Force for 4 years stationed at [Lackland Air Force Base] and [Los Angeles Air Force Base]. I never once got in trouble through basic training all the way ’til the completion of my contract. I’m overall a good girl really.”
Long, who goes by @shyshypan online, recently compared her “respected” job in the military to her “unrespected” occupation as a bartender in a TikTok video, showcasing her camouflage uniform and a barely-there bikini.
“My 6am-5pm uniform vs my 6pm-12am uniform,” the text on the clip from last week reads.
While admitting she misses her “double life,” the aspiring starlet seems to be having the time of her life in skimpy swimwear at her new gig.
“Bringing up I was in the military for bigger tips,” she wrote on one clip while wearing a camouflage string bikini with a matching hat, adding that it “works every time.”
Long, who has stockpiled nearly 10,000 followers on TikTok, claims to have completed her military contract in March, calling this her “fun lil freedom job.”
She told The Post she was on active duty when she devised a plan to save up money before her contract expired.
Inspired by the late Anna Nicole Smith’s career path, Long decided to become a stripper.
But it didn’t go as planned — she says she was denied from three strip clubs, which she “didn’t even think” was possible.
Feeling “defeated,” she told The Post that she tried to do bottle service at clubs, but “hated it and quit.”
When Distractions Lounge in Huntington Beach hired her, she finally found the perfect side hustle while working toward her Hollywood dreams.
Now, she’s “saving money, having fun at my freedom job, getting my VA disability for mainly PTSD and auditioning to start up my dream career of acting,” she told The Post.
Long said her favorite part of the job is how it contrasts with her time in the military, proclaiming she feels famous because of the attention.
“I even have a customer that made 2 shirts with my face on them,” she said. “I really feel like a celebrity while working in there.”
Eager TikTokers also shower her with compliments.
“God bless America,” gushed one user.
“God bless our troops,” wrote another.
“Where is this bar at? Asking for a friend,” one cheeky viewer inquired.
The brunette isn’t the only bikini-clad beauty serving up drinks and good looks.
A bikini barista recently spilled the beans on customers’ freaky requests — from sexual favors to coffee dates with married men. Sometimes, she even receives gifts, such as free food, delivered to her drive-thru window.
“People always ask me, ‘How do you know that the gifts aren’t poisoned? How do know the food isn’t contaminated?’” she said in a video. “I don’t.”
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