Chad Irby posted:

You have to rmember that for at least some of the Vietnam War, some
pilots didn't like ECM pods at *all*. Weren't manly enough, or
something. After they started noticing a somewhat higher survival rate
among pilots with pods, they got the message.

Respectfully that contradicts the utility of the "Pod Formation"
doctrine...the lack of knowledge regarding EW aside, I never heard any
SEA guy pooh-pooh Pods because he had a huge ego. I've heard guys say
early pods were unreliable or acted as strobes.

But by the early 1980s, a lot of jet jockeys were back to the "pods are
for wimps" sort of attitude.

Pure BS...I never heard a single swinging dick utter anything close
too that. Hell even in RTU we were being taught Xmit 2 with
such-an-such pressed for crossing the FLOT/FEBA...some guys briefed
aborting certain mission for INOP pods (based upon the WSO's call).

Juvat