Maybe the real heroes at Gellibrand aren’t the chicken-stranglers but the cut-lunch commandos who only have time for action on the weekends.
5 years to become a Hornet driver? *Cough* Bullsh!t!
I know guys who joined up at 18-18.5, got wings at 20 or so and were on the Hornet by 21-22. Big deal.
As for “Worth every penny…”:
I beg to differ. I got pretty good at F-15E Strike Eagle PC computer game and it had a flight-manual about as fat as my whatsit got whenever I played it.
It had functioning radar with all the modes (I can’t remember what they were called now) and all the missile-lock modes for swatting the bad guys. The strike eagle is a 2-seater but I did both jobs myself and it wasn’t that hard.
What a bunch of nerds, getting all juiced up over a Hornet flying endless boring laps around Melbourne and p!ssing into a empty choc-milk bottle.