Every time a military pilot commits aviation, they demonstrate absolute faith in a much larger team of hard working professionals who got them fed, watered, briefed and strapped in to a (mainly) serviceable aircraft. They depend upon the service intelligence chain to get them in and out of the sortie without needing an NOK card, and they rely on their colleagues to do it with them as often as required.
Sadly these days, they can also rely on the Government of the day to make sure that whatever they bombed, recce'd, torpedoed or plinked was a futile gesture in vote winning and had little or no effect on the conflict's outcome due to a complete absence of an operational objective since 2001.