One vote "for."
Is is becos I is fixed-wing? Anyway, I once gave this fellow you are all reviling a letter to mail once he got to Washington D.C. on leave, addressed to my aged mother, who lived in one of the suburbs. (She thought I was a piano-player in a cat-house, yes.)
He actually called my mother up and invited her to dinner at his place. She went and enjoyed an excellent meal to came away with the impression that he was a fine fellow. Try as you might, I don't think you can find anything unkind in that. What he's like on the job, I have no certain idea but there must be at least two sides to the man, one good. Go figure....