Now, consider who was safer: Kerry - drinking coffee in air conditioned comfort for 6 months in a frigate sailing far off the coast of Vietnam for only 6 months?
Or Bush?
Notice: "During its long service life, the F-106A had the distinction of recording the lowest single-engined aircraft accident record in USAF history. Despite this, out of a total production of 340 aircraft, 112 (including 17 two-seat F-106Bs) were lost in crashes or in ground fires during the 29 year career of the Delta Dart....
See: Almost 1 in 3 similar fighters (and the F-102 was the earlier, lower powered version of the F-106!) crashed or burned its pilot alive ....
AT HOME. Not even in combat flights - just regular flying caused almost 1/3 of fighter jets to try to kill their pilots. No infantryman faced that level of causalities per man-year.