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> How is that much different from a heavy cargo plane? 1. Deployed environments are often less than pretty. There's pretty much no comparison between a peacet
by ARandomerDude 8y ago
> How is that much different from a heavy cargo plane?
1. Deployed environments are often less than pretty. There's pretty much no comparison between a peacetime US/Europe life and wartime, even at airbases.
2. In the military, aircrews are expected to go down behind enemy lines, regardless of how often it happens against terrorist groups. They want to maximize your probability of survival after the crash/shootdown. Medical preconditions of any kind don't really help that.
- umvi 8y agoWell, all that's going to do is create an incentive to lie about your medical history so you don't get DQ'd and/or artificially limit the size of your pilot candidate pool, thus creating an even bigger shortage. Non-pilot millitary personnel get deployed and are on the ground in war zones 10x more than pilots (especially in the army) and they aren't disqualified for having allergies. It's just not a big deal except in the most egregious of hay fever cases