Sprout where you are planted. Suck it up and smoke a freakin rag head from the US.
UAV's are the way of the future. Although I don't know what we are going to do with them when we leave OIF/OEF....years off.
I love flying the Hawg, but if I was sent to a pred, I would find the good side of it. For one, you were never going to put ordnance on target in the C-21/C-5, now you have the chance. I'd be on the fence on C-21 versus pred anyway.