"Escort"..........NO !!!!!
It seems a few of us still don't understand that these "escort" are planned to wipe us of the air, if someone, somewhere, relaying on any kind of intelligence or no intelligence at all, decided our plane is a kind of missile he is entitled to hit.
While diving to Hell or up to the paradise, you would thank Dubya first, then Jackie, then anyone of their colleagues eager to fight "terrorism".........