Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
The effects of the increased radiation exposure was one that I hadn't really given much thought too over the years.
I personally know 3 FDX pilots with brain cancer ... 2 of them are no longer "with us." Lots of other cancers, we'll probably never know how many of them are the result of radiation exposure?
At the start of recurrent ground school one year, the instructor asked the class, "How many of you thought you were signing up to be radiation workers when you took this job?"
It might be time to take out my tin-foil hat?