Flipster, I will now slip back into my voluntary thread retirement, I keep lapsing when I read untruths!! You are right, we did get 'war happy' in our style of flying and it did take effort to remember to fly safer on the mainland.
One point that is vital here..... We are not slagging off the AT guys who do a fabulous job and operate in war zones with bravery and guts. We are only saying that WE had to do a DIFFERENT job to them at the time. Not better, just different. The current aircrew workforce (in my opinion) do a better job than I ever could have. Fly safe!!