” It may be a career, maybe not.”
If this guy is flying an F35 he’s several cuts above the rest already. Stuff happens.
True...there could have been some kind of unforeseen turbulence, a hardware or software failure, that kind of thing.
That is an expensive mistake, but that is the world we live in.
I often wonder, if we get into a real shooting war with an enemy bent on attriting (not even sure if that is a word) us and capable of doing it, would we be able to draw from the boneyard?
I mean, hell, an F-18 from the boneyard may be better than nothing, even if there are 5th Gen fighters prowling around. They can’t be everywhere...