In days gone by before this vet fee help stiff even existed, pilots would take out loans from the bank or elsewhere. If they didn’t get a flying job straight away, they worked hard elsewhere to pay off the debt. Nowadays with these no-interest government loans, students keep moving from one vocation to the next and paying it off never becomes a focus, so this “I’ve got a $120k debt” card, is not anything like what it used to be.