[kabar]

Your ignorance is astounding. (No disrespect intended)

I spent 8 years as a naval officer including a year in Vietnam. I came by my "ignorance" the hard way.

Jet Fighter pilots, not involved in actual combat, have the lowest mortality rates of most all specialty ratings in the Military. It is one of the SAFEST forms of duty in respect to hours flown/exposure and fatal accidents.

What "specialty" ratings are you referring to? More pilots are killed/injured in training accidents than Supply Officers, Doctors, JAGs, submariners, etc.

They also had special privileges that the average GI did not get.

LOL. What special privileges? Because they are all officers?

The most risk was shared by all Helicopter pilots and their crews, door gunners being the highest at risk.

They are pilots as well. And you are mixing apples and oranges if you use the example of door gunners in peacetime.

It would be helpful if you learn the facts first before making any further “Pseudo-factual” statements.

Have you served in the military? Have you ever been at the controls of a high performance aircraft? Have you ever experienced landing or taking off on an aircraft carrier? I have.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Have you ever flown at 100 knots under a network of power lines? Or flown for countless hours every day with you wheels just inches from vegetation that can and will pull you to the ground in a nano-second? Or have you made countless recoveries at the end of each row sprayed just to get back on to the next row?

But then we must still be talking apples and oranges here.

And yes, I did serve in actual combat, (See several previous posts on this thread.)

[ketsu]

I think you misunderstood PsyhoFreeps post. Reread the part in italics

It is one of the SAFEST forms of duty in respect to hours flown/exposure and fatal accidents.

And your answer:

What "specialty" ratings are you referring to? More pilots are killed/injured in training accidents than Supply Officers, Doctors, JAGs, submariners, etc.

He was talking about pilots.