There's a life lesson there.
God bless the men that fly and fight.
/johnny
“engineers and mechanics outlasted pilots-—”
probably becuase the enlisted men were younger than most officers-—great majority of officers I served under were at least a couple years older as they were college boys or older to get even a ‘90 day wonder’ commission
‘Bless ‘em all, Bless ‘em all, the long and short and the tall’