As particlewill says, you do need to be extremely athletic. I’m a ground-poundin’ CE troop myself, but I do have a lot of respect for some of my friends who are ‘stick jockeys’. Pulling 7 or 8g’s on a simple turn takes a lot out of you. . .
And as for the killing thing, keep in mind that you could be in different situations:
[ul]
[li]Being at 30,000 dropping many many 500lb bombs on Taliban[/li][li]In a dogfight for your life somewhere in the skies where its either you or him[/li][li]Escorting a hijacked airliner, with the knowledge that you may be forced to shoot it down[/li][li]On the berm with a rifle in-hand, in some place ending in “stan”, in MOPP 4 because someone dropped VX near your airfield.[/li][li]Escorting third-country-nationals on base, and they begin to get very unruly, and start to riot.[/li][/ul]
You won’t have time to think. You will have to have the strength to handle your decisions later. . . Tough decisions.
Tripler
Reach down and do a ‘gut check’. Right now.