"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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Many combat vets
take awhile before they can become effective teachers

If we're speaking about the USAAF in WWII, some never made the
adjustment at all. The army found some men too nervous in the service
to be trusted as teachers. But still it was an inspired system.

Ed mentioned that "some countries" didn't follow this
combat-to-instructor rotation. Actually, I think that should be "no
other country" beside the U.S. The RAF may have done a bit of it,
without advertising it,

The RAF did rather a lot of it

With bomber pilots for example crews who survived a tour
would go on leave then be posted to an Operational Training
Unit to pass their knowledge on to new crews. Fighter pilots
tended to follow the same path with quite a number being posted
to bases set up in Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
under the Empire flight taining schemes

Keith