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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: draft
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.002945.19382@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 00:29:45 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
In article <1990Nov27.044138.2540@cbnews.att.com> chen@sundial.gatech.edu (Ray Chen) writes:
>1)  If you've got some guy in a helicopter trying to do something
>	tough while under fire, who would you rather have flying
>	the thing:  some 19-year old kid or a 40-year guy who's
>	been flying for years and may have even seen combat?

That depends on whether I'm in the helicopter or not. :-)

Seriously.  The odds are good that the 19-year-old has better eyesight,
faster responses, and much less sense of his own mortality.  The more
experienced 40-year-old is probably more likely to bring the helicopter
back, but the 19-year-old may be more likely to get the job done.  (On
a battlefield with modern AA weapons in abundance, flying CAS missions
for any length of time is going to be almost suicidal; the effective
pilots will be the ones who don't believe it can happen to them.  Of
course, it *will* happen to a lot of them...)
-- 
"I'm not sure it's possible            | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
to explain how X works."               |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry