Since we now fight a majority of battles from the air, would this require a soldier to be the first one out in front of any conflicts? Who would volunteer for this?
OK, being who I am, I’ll just wait and see what happens.
Wars are not won in the air. With one exception, it takes boots on the ground to break an enemy's will. Even in that one exception, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, air power only provided a hard shove in the direction that thinking Japanese realized was inevitable: the utter defeat of the home islands under the full might of the American Navy and Marines.
By the end of the war most major Japanese cities had received enough high explosives and incendiaries from on high that photos taken of them are hardly distinguishable from those of the Atomic Bomb targets. In large part this only hardened their resolve.
Germany failed to break Britain's will with the Blitz. The Allies failed to break Germany's will with Dresden, etc.
That being said, there is no reason the first plane in the attack can't be carrying The Ark...
Anyone of faith. God promised certain victory, after all...