Jacko 3
You have just blown a large hole in your size 10 boot. Flying pay is awarded as retention pay to put our pay on a par with civvy-flyers wages and not 'danger money'. Also, your long list of romanticised items of "being shot at", "under high G loading", "being at low level" and "in formation" does not apply to an awful lot of pilots in the RAF.
Plus, if you don't think taking shots inside 'Danger Close' parameters with a Hellfire or dropping a GBU-12 doesn't warrant stress, then you've probably never been anywhere near any platform doing it - manned or remotely-manned. Listening to mates on the ground screaming for CAS and having to make life or death decisions brings plenty of stress; get it wrong and you could still go to jail - manned or remotely-manned.
The introduction of this brevet is long overdue and BZ to those chaps that have earned it...
LJ