It's peacetime and all the worrywarts have crawled out of the walls -
again- to tell everyone else 'you're doing it all wrong.' I saw it
happen three distinct times during my career. Granted - the F18 stud
hung it out a bit much. But I fondly remember a pentagon type - an 06
who briefed the JCS daily - that the 'career hawks' cringed whenever
some stud hung it out too far but when the guns started shooting the
'stars' were damn glad those same studs were around to go lay some
expert hurt on the bad guys. Anybody who willingly and eagerly goes out
to trade shots with the enemy isn't exactly a tame, sane and stable
character.
Walt BJ