Old 04-25-2013 | 08:17 AM
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A couple possible reasons...

The job involves flying in hot airspace in sandland or Africa.

The aircraft have had countermeasures added either due the nature of the destinations, the pax, or both.

The company caters to very high-end customers, and wants to use the fighter-pilot thing as a selling point, even if it's totally irrelevant to the actual operations.
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