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Yeah, I'd expect pilots to talk like that, it just had an impression on me because I didn't expect a journalist explaining something to have the same vernacular

• throwanem 5y ago
  Fighter pilots are also, by all accounts including my own, very much among the most confident human beings anyone is ever likely to meet - that teacher I'm thinking of certainly was. It can easily make a strong impression; most of the guys in that class had a huge crush on the idea of growing up to be like him, while many of the girls (and I!) just had a huge crush on him. There is no reason to assume this sort of thing only occurs among high schoolers, or in any case that a Gizmodo writer would be more likely to embark upon a serious consideration of the moral weight of aerial combat than to focus on its literal and figurative whiz-bang, wow-cool-robot aspects, of which there is no shortage.