Originally Posted by
Just This Once...
We say 'EJECT'; you say 'BAILOUT'.
You are mistaken.
We say eject on aircraft with ejection seats.
We say bail out on aircraft without them.
Just so that you understand the difference, for over 30 years the USN's primary trainer was the T-34C, which required a bail out under various conditions. For 20 or so years before that, the T-28 B and C were also bail out/parachute equipped primary training aircraft.
At the same time, the advanced trainers -- T-2, TA-4, then T-45, were all ejection seat aircraft.
Likewise the T-37/Tweet. Primary training, ejection seat, and we still say eject. Likewise in the T-6 Texan II.
Old adage among the American carrier pilots: "There are those who have ejected, and those who will."
@Herod: Our military has DOPMA, yours does not.
After 25 years, my
up or out choice was to choose to stay until 28, one last assignment somewhere else, or to hang up the cleats and stay where I was.
With the kids settled in schools, and the wife finishing her degree, it was time. I was never going to be an admiral.
Bring it.