Originally Posted by
FmrFreightDog
Never been shot at and never dropped a bomb on anything more significant than the crew lounge toilet. However, I have had plenty of sphincter-tightening moments flying a rundown Baron full of cancelled checks...or flying Lifeflight missions in less than ideal (or legal) conditions... or trying to deliver the freight to some crap ass 3rd world city by flying some crap ass cobbled together NDB approach in the middle of the night just to spend the night in the airplane waiting for the morning's load out.
Are you really comparing flying cancelled checks with flying an F-117 over Baghdad during the first night of Desert Storm, or the helo guys that flew SEAL Team 6 into Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, or my airdropping of the 82nd Airborne into Grenada while AAA guns were raking the airplane? Really? Were you shot at? Did you watch your buddies get shot down and die? Did you have the American flag on your shoulder and your fellow soldiers depending on you to not eff up? Really?
We don't all have similar "bones." Please don't try and compare my experience to yours. It's not the same and you cannot understand that. At our current airline, we're all equal. That's great. But don't assume you know what the military guys have gone through and experienced. Just don't.
I guess its a generational thing. You guys are more clueless than I could ever have imagined.