"Krztalizer" wrote

Most fighter jocks I know love single seaters, and I don't know any
of them that preferred to fly a side-by-side ship, if there was anything
else
available.

Most generalizations don't stand up. OK, name five fighter pilots that
you "know" who wouldn't fly any airplane that was full of free gas.

The one that comes to mind first is Diz Laird, who thought once you had a
"friend" in the cockpit, it was no longer a "fighter". I've sat at tables with
fighter aces at their reunions in San Diego, Mesa, San Antonio and other places
and Diz' comments were in line with what the guys were saying. That said,
almost anyone with a history of flying would fly in a motorized ****can, if
that was the only thing available. I can't imagine why Bush would go through
training and then walk away from a once in a lifetime opportunity to fly the
Deuce, or any other jet fighter.

Believe me! It happens all the time. In the late 90's F-15 and F-16 pilots
were jumping out in record numbers because of all the bull**** orbits in Iraq.
When the training is not realistic, the fun goes out of flying pretty fast. There's
just a ****load of additional duties that pilots have to perform, and some
peckerhead is always coming-up with a new ground training requirement
that must be bean-counted to ****ing death. Charts and slides, briefings to
people who can't wipe their own ass. It all adds up to the fact that flying is
5% of the job description, and 95% is non-mission-related.

I tell you what... Spend 90 days overseas wearing diapers and ****ting all
over yourself, and ****ing all over yourself while sitting on a seat kit for
14 hours waiting for some raghead to fire a round at you. Please! Let me
get rid of this ****ing ordinance so I can empty my ****ing diapers.

There's only a very special breed that will do that, and they usually will take it
because they want to be a General one day, and of course fix everything :-)