Dan Rather can blow it out his @$$. I spent more time deployed as a reservist than I did when I was active duty.
/johnny
I’d bet money the non-combat accidental death rate of F-102/F-106 pilots in the US was higher than the overall death rate of all servicemen deployed to Vietnam (including all the REMFs like Al Gore, of course).
Flying high-performance fighter aircraft of any kind is an odd way of “dodging” something where you might be killed.