They put a woman, whose only flying and command experience was in refueling,
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And just how do they do that refueling?
You know, what is the mechanism?
And she must have been good at it.
Regardless of how good she was at refueling:
Did she have personal experience in going places where people were trying to kill her?
Does she have experience in knowing what it's like to send men to do things that they may not come back from?
What life experiences does she have that qualifies her to oversee the training of men who must go out to kill or die, and command warriors?