From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4D58AA88.F1CF3021@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > Dillon Pyron wrote:   
   >>   
   >> [Default] Thus spake RT :   
   >>   
   >> >cloud dreamer wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> On 14/01/2011 2:26 AM, RT wrote:   
   >> >> > cloud dreamer wrote:   
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   >>   
   >> >> 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.   
   >   
   > That's also not a fight for survival against genocide. All energies would   
   > be heavily turned towards the military.   
   >   
   >> >> 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)   
   >   
   > The colonies are a far more technologically advanced society. "Nintendo   
   > generation" would be far behind even that. And don't forget that little   
   > issue with a reliance on computers. Quite a lot would be turned over to   
   > them   
   > freeing the pilot to dogfight.   
      
   It will be whatever the new series says it is.  If they have to retcon   
   Caprica to do it, so be it.   
      
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