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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-11-2011, 03:11 AM
zuludelta
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I figured he left Special Forces to fly helicopters. Flight school training would be a waste of money on an 180A. He'd end up as the bus driver and have to leave his team every time he inserted them somewhere.
I would probably tend to think of Flint along similar lines if I just "had to have" him be a qualified military pilot. For the reasons you've listed in your other posts on this subject, the timeline would be just too messed up if he were both a qualified SF Warrant Officer and an Aviation Warrant Officer, even if he were able to get some sort of special dispensation to bypass certain requirements to get his wings. The only real way he could be both a qualified SF Warrant Officer and a licensed aviator would be if he attended civilian flight training on his own time (but then, he wouldn't be a qualified military aviator, he'd have civilian pilot qualifications).
I've heard stories of Delta operators allegedly being trained as aviators in Army aviation schools under some cover or other so that they could fly themselves in and out, but I tend to dismiss those anecdotes as tall tales. The amount of time it would take for somebody to qualify as a pilot able to fly and lead special operations aviation missions would just be too long if you add it on top of all the training an operator would have to go through just to get in and stay in Delta. It takes anywhere from three to five years for a 160th SOAR(A) pilot to earn his flight lead qualifications, for example. And if you're going to trust the high-risk, heli-borne, insertion and extraction of Delta operators to a pilot who isn't at least sniffing at a 160th SOAR(A) flight lead's proficiency level, you're just taking undue risk (especially since the 160th exists precisely to fly special ops units in and out of high-risk/hostile areas).
If Delta needs to fly, they already either have dedicated and experienced pilots (military and civilian) temporarily seconded to the unit to do that for them, or the 160th SOAR(A) or one of AFSOC's numerous special operations-capable units fly them in and out.
As it is though, I just ignore the whole pilot aspect of Flint completely. Always felt like it was something that was just tacked on to the character's filecard.
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