Airborne lawyers?? Lemme guess....courts-martial behind the lines? ;-)
More like, “So, Colonel... ah.... how can we get away with.....”
I was FA in RVN, but branch transferred after Law School. Combat Arms experience greatly “improves the hearing” of those one is giving advice to.
It’s like a USAF reservist doctor I play golf with, an ophthalmologist. He can sometimes be the final authority when a Air Force pilot has a eye problem with their physical.
If he has to turn them down, the (young stud official hero) pilot turned down will usually start to give him a rash of s**t about “what do you know about real flying” etc.
He then takes off his white “clinical coat”. They then see his Command Pilot wings as a B-52 driver. He was a hot shot in Vietnam, promoted ahead of his peer group, etc, until he lost his own flight physical due to diabetes.
So the Blue Suiters sent him to medical school, and now he is an O-6 “semi-retired on waivers” Flight Surgeon who everyone listens to... and he gets in a few hours of BUFF “stick time” every year, just to keep him happy.
Us old farts can still hold our own! :)