I had the pleaseure of flying with AJ on 230 at Gut.
He told it the way it was. After a really bad ride, he invited me to walk around the hangar looking like a buckeroo loaded up with about half the Sqn's nav bags to prove a point ( ie: get to the target - humping a MILAN post across the German plains is not a joke ).
Hated it at the time, but with hindsight everything he told me was 1000% correct and as a teaching point he was spot on - AJ style.
20+ years on, you remember stuff like that and you respect the messenger because of it. So if you cannot be positive for his family then please be quiet.
RIP AJ