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What would your family receive if you were shot down and KIA in your lumbering transport aircraft in Iraq say?
This comment is in all due respect, with a background reference that I personally protested to my MHR about the woeful initial treatment of the widow of the SAS fatality in Afganistan.
Professional civilian pilot groups have negotiated for very favourable loss of health schemes. Again, with all due respect, I could fall of my roof and receive far more than a service pilots' family who dies fighting or training to protect his country. Is this an example of "your" socialism?
And as Hi'er alludes to, check out former members of your community and note their earnings. I work with dozens, they don't want their jobs back, so I won't apply either!
