Hihover
I agree. We did OK.
When I joined the Air Platoon of an Infantry Battalion in 1969 from MW as an infantry officer pilot, we were well trained and effective in the aircraft of the day and for the requirements of the day. I remember flying a Sioux solo on Salisbury Plain, tactically at tree-top level (if there had been any trees), directing artillery shoots, map reading, looking out, pulling up to spot fall of shot, locating it on the map, sending grid refs and corrections, using the radios with BATCO, with both hands and both feet busy on the controls and all the needles approximately in the green. All in a days work. How the hell did we do it?