From: invaliddmpyron@austin.rr.com   
      
   [Default] Thus spake RT :   
      
   >cloud dreamer wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On 14/01/2011 2:26 AM, RT wrote:   
   >> > cloud dreamer wrote:   
      
      
      
   >> AND NO, , when a military is desperate for recruits, they don't   
   >> put 15 or 16 year olds in the cockpits of advanced space fighter craft.   
   >> Starbucks injury proved that an immense amount of strength is required.   
   >> A 16 year old wouldn't be capable of flying it.   
   >>   
   >> And remember, he would be NO MORE than 16 when he joined. That's after   
   >> training. So he would have to be YOUNGER when they trained him and no   
   >> 13, 14 or 15 year old is training in a viper.   
   >>   
   >> If a military is desperate, it hands a rifle to a 16 year old and sends   
   >> him to the trenches, not the viper training.   
   >>   
   >> Even in Vietnam, the pilot's average age was 28 while the grunt's   
   >> average age was 22. (The song "19" is a myth).   
   >   
   >The what song????   
      
   One that I can think of   
      
   "Well come on all you big strong men,   
   Uncle Sam needs your help again."   
      
      
   BUT, you became eligible for the draft (in the US) on Jan 1st of the   
   year you turned 18.   
      
   I have my card that says I took 2nd place in the lottery.   
      
   In Viet Nam, the "average age" accounted for NCOs, who typically ran   
   into their 30s or later.  The number listed above was, I think without   
   looking, for enlisted only.  My father (an E9, Chief Master Sargent,   
   USAF) was 41 when he went TDY for 6 months.  That counts for this   
   statistic.   
      
   But that's not 16.   
   >   
   >> And YOUR OWN LINK now says he is no more than 58.   
   >>   
   >> Give it up. You are wrong.   
   >>   
   >>   ..   
   >   
   >A year or two is all that's needed. In a war like that, one for outright   
   >survival, younger and younger recruits are accepted. That's what Japan and   
   >Germany did. And Caprica and the colonies were very technically advanced -   
   >very. No hueys or 105s... Understand?   
      
   There's actually a reason that the average fighter jock is 29.  The   
   Air Force/Navy don't want them wadding up a $30 million dollar   
   airplane.  He/She will go through several years of school, at least   
   two years of trainer aircraft before they even get stuck into an F16   
   or F/A18.  AND, you sign up for 4 more years when you get out of   
   primary flight school.  Assuming you don't wash out.   
      
   It turns out that "very technically advanced" means more thought   
   process by the pilot.  One reason we're going more for drones.  Less   
   stress if you don't have to worry about dying.  Or worse.   
      
   During Viet Nam, most of the F100 and F105 jocks I knew were Capt.or   
   Majors.  That's "pretty old" (yeah, at my age "pretty old" is   
   bullshit)   
      
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