[CholeraJoe]

Yeah Robert I was an AF Flight Surgeon in Tankers, Helicopters and missles. My father was Army Air Corps in the Pacific in WWII and later USAF. My grandfather fought at the Battle of the Marne in WWI, my great grandfather fought Indians on the frontier and my great-great grandfather received the MOH for heroism at the Battle of Nashville. The tradition actually goes back farther than that but for the British Army.

[Robert A Cook PE]

"Yeah Robert I was an AF Flight Surgeon in Tankers, Helicopters and missles....

Uhmmmmmmn, er, eh ....

(Like how do I tell a official Air Force flight-like surgeon this ???)

Now, I know there's no seat on a Patriot, the bazooka-like LAW round, Sidewinder, Hawk, nor the Corpral, Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules, or MLRS rockets - so the Army doesn't need missile flight surgeons.

But, Carl, my-other-brother-in-law who wasn't launchig Patriots at Spuds, was a missile launch guy up in the frozen tundra for several years ....

And, like, you know, he could never "confirm nor deny that there were nuclear warheads on those things" .... (My darling wife says "THERE BETTER DAMN WELL BE WARHEADS ON THEM" or she's gonna get pissed at us wasting a lot of money building 'em ...) .... but I digress.

Anyway, I coulda sworn that he said they "launched 'em" not "rode 'em."

So, like, what's a missile flight surgeon do if there ain't nobody ridin' the missiles? Other than the occasional astronut who rode the early Atlas, Titans and Mercury-Redstones?

Check out the AF's birds for sore wings?

Examine those stealth Candianian geese in case they've infiltrated the silo?