DB,
Ever the Wit you are.
Dim.....but a Wit.
You insult the Dead, inject true Snobbery into the discussion, and manage to be xenophobic all at the same time. Well played.
When I hear Crab tell us about slinging all day long daylight to dark, rigging his own loads, hand pumping his own fuel, and doing his own DI's, while living in a Geologist's Fly Camp, then I will accede to the fact he has "worked" for a living.
I did that in a country not my own, while employed by an Operator that had letters on the Tail Booms (not numbers). Nothing "Yank" about that operation except for me.