Originally Posted by
pr00ne
And do the job is so significant. My generation only ever practiced, we never did it for real.
Apologies for being late on parade and late aboard the minor outrage bus but even though my generation (in my case front line in the eighties) didn't fight a war "for real" as I recall it in the fast jet world at that time we were losing roughly an airframe a month, probably more, and perhaps a dozen aircrew a year, much of that down to the standard of the "kit" we had to work with, the tasks we were set and the nature of the operation, so please don't play down what we/you did.
That is in no way meant to trivialise what current men and women in the front line now do - and TBH as an ex driver, F-4, Air Defence, with a vague understanding of a B-Scope , I'd give my right thingy 'ollcky thing to have a go in the F-35.