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Thanks, Gents. I've had a number of emails about the list from Red Eagles, all of whom echo the comments here; how typical of the men whose mantra was "be humble, you cool fucker". The truth is that I just wrote a book - these guys are the ones who made history. to them.

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Neil trap

Too bad, when I read the title I was thinking it was one of these.

Donk is kick ass.

Dude, you're a huge tool.

You can almost set your watch to a heavy pilot chiming in with an unsolicited 'us too' every time there is a discussion about selection processes for fighters. Is an inferiority complex something that gets issued with your David Clarks when you track T-1's? Relax, you're important too. If we're lucky we'll get a 'nobody kicks ass without tanker gas' whine next that's equally unrelated to a discussion about IFF and how it delivers a finished product (trainable wingmen) to its customers (fighter B-courses).

Again you've failed to say what exactly your experiences are, do you actually have any with UAVs? I do, I work with them all the time. I deal directly with them and their customers in a different role. I've never seen any digs by pilots in my community or any other against the guys flying UAVs. Everyone knows the AF randomly selected dudes for a job no one wanted and it could just as easily have been me sitting in that box dealing with lost link at TOT instead of them. There are alot of things they can't do or things they don't do well (UAVs), guys get pretty livid about that part because it impacts support to the user. But you're on here essentially saying pilots have an ego problem and based on their own personal stigma won't let UAVs or UAV pilots realize their full potential. I'm telling you that opinion is way off base (and I noticed you ignored the UAV guys who also corrected you). Additionally, you're not qualifiying your opinions with experience. I think you're totally full of shit. Feel free to prove me wrong with a valid point. Or you could keeping calling me a tool; everyone knows you must be awesome and articulate for throwing down that kind of heavy weight on an internet forum!