Survivability in Combat

"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: Fighter Pilot Fellowship (was: something else entirely)
From: "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
Date: 12/8/03 6:53 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: m

monkey wrote:
Like I said before, dud, you shouldn't be in any fellowship for
"fighter pilots" unless that's what you are/were.


Therein lies the conundrum: were you a fighter pilot if you flew P-51s
on
the
airshow circuit? The Mustang was most definitely a fighter. Were you
only a
fighter pilot if you flew fighters for a military service? Or only if
you've
fired your guns in anger?

This seems to be a grey area to me.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN


http://www.mortimerschnerd.com




Not gray at all. You can fly fighters but never have been in combat. You
are
still a fighter pilot because you piloted a fighter. But COMBAT pilot is
another matter entirely. Combat is a world apart.

Regards,


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Art, That's it exactly.....this whole discussion has been an exercise in
semantics !!!!!

Regards, BMC

Subject: Fighter Pilot Fellowship (was: something else entirely)
From: "Brian Colwell"
Date: 12/9/03 11:37 AM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: 1wpBb.620767$6C4.313597@pd7tw1no


"ArtKramr" wrote in message
...
Subject: Fighter Pilot Fellowship (was: something else entirely)
From: "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
Date: 12/8/03 6:53 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: m

monkey wrote:
Like I said before, dud, you shouldn't be in any fellowship for
"fighter pilots" unless that's what you are/were.


Therein lies the conundrum: were you a fighter pilot if you flew P-51s
on
the
airshow circuit? The Mustang was most definitely a fighter. Were you
only a
fighter pilot if you flew fighters for a military service? Or only if
you've
fired your guns in anger?

This seems to be a grey area to me.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN


http://www.mortimerschnerd.com




Not gray at all. You can fly fighters but never have been in combat. You
are
still a fighter pilot because you piloted a fighter. But COMBAT pilot is
another matter entirely. Combat is a world apart.

Regards,


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Art, That's it exactly.....this whole discussion has been an exercise in
semantics !!!!!

Regards, BMC


Yeah. Everyone gets all tangled up in his underwear and meets himself coming
around the corner. (sheesh)

Regards,


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Brian Colwell wrote:
"ArtKramr" wrote in message
...
Subject: Fighter Pilot Fellowship (was: something else entirely)
From: "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
Date: 12/8/03 6:53 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: m

monkey wrote:
Like I said before, dud, you shouldn't be in any fellowship for
"fighter pilots" unless that's what you are/were.


Therein lies the conundrum: were you a fighter pilot if you flew P-51s on
the
airshow circuit? The Mustang was most definitely a fighter. Were you only
a fighter pilot if you flew fighters for a military service? Or only if
you've fired your guns in anger?

This seems to be a grey area to me.



--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN


http://www.mortimerschnerd.com




Not gray at all. You can fly fighters but never have been in combat. You are
still a fighter pilot because you piloted a fighter. But COMBAT pilot is
another matter entirely. Combat is a world apart.

Regards,


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

Art, That's it exactly.....this whole discussion has been an exercise in
semantics !!!!!

Regards, BMC

Semantics? In this place? I'm shocked to hear you say that.....shocked I tell
you!!! (^-^)))

George Z.

"George Z. Bush" wrote in message
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Semantics? In this place? I'm shocked to hear you say that.....shocked I
tell
you!!! (^-^)))

George Z.




George - you're anti semantic ? Now I'm shocked.





I've purposely stayed out of this thread - it's one of those that generates
more heat than light.



Dudley has my respect for what he brings to the group and that he's always
been civil to me. I've got no idea what happened at the beginning of
the thread and frankly, life's too short to care.



If this had happened in a bar, it would be all over now.



Cheers


Dave Kearton

Dave Kearton wrote:
"George Z. Bush" wrote in message
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Semantics? In this place? I'm shocked to hear you say that.....shocked I
tell you!!! (^-^)))

George Z.




George - you're anti semantic ? Now I'm shocked.

Dave, we bigots have to do the best with what we have.

George Z.