[investigateworld]

As another poster mentioned, the F-102, was designed for "Continental Air Defence', hence the likely hood of V-N being in the rotation was slim. Ya ya ya - a few - tiny number went overseas.

I did BCT in a mixed company, NG's AR's, US's and a few of us RA's.

All the NG's and AR's admitted both sober and drunk, they were seeking to avoid VN.

Volunteered? Great, a infantry unit would have loved to had him in it.

I cannot climb in his brain, but he knows what is there.

So why didn't he keep an active (Private) pilots license after discharge?

[Tribune7]

Great, a infantry unit would have loved to had him in it.

So, everyone who served in the Navy or Air Force was a draft dodger? How about those in supply units or the artillery?

If you can't climb into his brain why do you make the assumption of the worst.

He was a Yale grad in 1968 with a highly connected father and granddad. If he wanted to avoid aggravation, unpleasantness and danger he could have found an easier way of doing it without looking bad than flying jets.

[topher]

You posted:

As another poster mentioned, the F-102, was designed for "Continental Air Defence', hence the likely hood of V-N being in the rotation was slim. Ya ya ya - a few - tiny number went overseas.

I would agree with that.

However, flying jets has a hazard -- they sometimes crash.

How often do we read of a military jet or helicopter crashing with everyone killed -- normally many times a year.

If you get some bozo in your platoon/squad who is very inept, you might get shot or blown up.

For example, in the Clint Eastwood Heartbreak Ridge that was a foulup in the Recon Platoon that almost killed that football major that Clint Eastwood referred to as a cluster F***.

Screwups in the military with weapsons can kill you.

But if you fly jets, you might get killed by a bad mechanic...