Hah! I was flying a twin and ran into a thunderstorm. The guy with me in the right seat was a Marine pilot I was taking back to the town where we both live. It was night. The rain was beating against the windscreen and you couldn’t see crap. There was lightning going off all around us. This guy was like sweating bullets and I swear ever few seconds he farted. I told him nothing to worry about. Then when things were really getting bad I looked at him and asked him to scare me. WTF he says - why? I said I had the hiccups, could concentrate.
Don’t doubt your story, there are plenty of pussies, guys who got out of the fleet as fast as they could, even though they had wings. However, you said ‘any’ Marine pilot which gets you the LOL bs call.
“I was flying a twin and ran into a thunderstorm”
Only an idiot would say such a thing. A REAL pilot would have turned away from it and left because any pilot knows the winds of a thunderstorm tear apart little airplanes. Airlines are not allowed by corporate regulation to get near them and private pilots know to skirt them. So, I call bullsh*t on your little story of heroics.