Don’t waste your time writing to these types (his screen name pretty much tells me all I need to know).
My son is a fighter pilot (wizzo), USAF. They have quite a few women pilots and wizzo’s. The females seem to make good wizzo’s (something to do with less machismo and more deliberate behavior (or brains) I suspect). A lot of these guys don’t seem to realize (when was the last time we engaged in serious air-to-air dogfights?) that in this day the danger is not such combat with enemy planes, but much more the DOD lawyers hanging over you if you hit the wrong target (not to mention CNN reporters!).
I do laugh, however, when I am told that being a pilot of that type is not very strenuous. Jeremy Clarkson did a good special on F-15E’s, where at the end he points out that he was more tired than anything else he had ever done (which is a lot, if you watch his show).
My daughter is a SSGT, USMC. Graduated from Parris Island (after a Bachelor’s and two Master’s degrees). I wonder if any of these macho guys could be a Lioness in Iraq or Afghanistan, Hmmmmm?
Anyway, the joke here is that if the two of them go into a bar and have a “problem”, it will be my daughter who gets my son out of the “problem”, not the other way around.
But if you think my screenname is some literal boast, and not an ironic joke, well, you're the kind of credulous fool I find boring.
“My son is a fighter pilot (wizzo), USAF.”
He is not a “fighter pilot” and he would be soundly beat if he called himself that. . .especially among his squadron buddies. He is “Goose” to Maverick. He is NOT driving the jet nor is he leading the formation—ever.
A good wizzo is great to have, for sure, but don’t call him a fighter pilot. Ask him and he will tell you that same thing.
“They have quite a few women pilots and wizzo’s. The females seem to make good wizzo’s (something to do with less machismo and more deliberate behavior (or brains) I suspect).”
Has to do with a lack of aggression, natural aggression.
“A lot of these guys don’t seem to realize (when was the last time we engaged in serious air-to-air dogfights?) that in this day the danger is not such combat with enemy planes,”
You are aware that there are other 4.5 generation jets out there and our adversaries are making more of then each day. . .and making them better. China, anyone?
“much more the DOD lawyers hanging over you if you hit the wrong target (not to mention CNN reporters!).”
Of that we agree.
“I do laugh, however, when I am told that being a pilot of that type is not very strenuous. “
I do, too. They know nothing.
“Jeremy Clarkson did a good special on F-15E’s, where at the end he points out that he was more tired than anything else he had ever done (which is a lot, if you watch his show).”
Yup. Can really pound you into a heap of sweat on a simple A/A or A/G mission.
“will be my daughter who gets my son out of the “problem”,”
Mostly because of the fact SHE is female and most men would not engage (fight) with a female.