did I say i flew four years ....read my post... oh.. but thats something you dont do.

I said I flew the line for 4 years... and ANOTHER year on a wing staff job......which actually was more like 18 months..... thats 5 1/2.... plus my year of UPT... plus 6 months of post UPT training before I was in the squadron. And then 5 months... off flight status once I submitted my papers to leave the military. In my day late 80's early 90's the commitment was 6 years from date of winging.

As for you assertion that there were 600 pilots from one squadron.... hum...lets see............. a herc squadron.(lets use something i am familiar with) was crewed at 1.75 crews per aircraft....thats 28 crews... 56 pilots.. that would be all pilots from the newest guy to the CO. Thats 11 years of pilots, more or less assuming EVERY PILOT in that SQUADRON went to DAL... Even if half of the guys who went to the airlines went to DAL and only about half of military pilots end up after separating going to the airlines....that would be 14 in a given year.. and most pilots are in the sqd 3-5 years.... without taking it any further....even over a 20-25 year period ... 600 pilots from ONE squadron... BULLSHEET. IF 15 pilots left every year for Delta it would still take 40 years to come up with the number you spout.... again... BULLSHEET.