Originally Posted by
744ButtonPusher
as a mil pilot… we also had all (save doing an ATP/CTP course ) of our training/ratings paid for by the tax payers… not a small bill to pay.
I paid for that training with 10 years of my life, 35 surgeries and permanent lifelong, likely life shortening medical issues. Oh, and I can't have kids, not because of an accident but because of a DoD medical department F up.
Don't tell me I didn't pay for my military flight time. I pay every day. As do a lot of others. Some paid the ultimate price.