another true story when we were on the aircraft carrier. evvery year they have something called flight quals ( qualifications ). our commander of the ship obviously wanted to win. there are basically two people in charge, commander for the ship and commander for the aircraft.
well the commander of the ship can suprcede the aircraft commander. that day the waves were really high and the aircraft commander said it was too dangerous but was overruled. well he was right, just as one jet was about to land the swells raised the back of the ship and well enough said. they both ejected, one was lost at sea the other hit mutiple aircraft on deck. without going into details neither one lived.
i hate war and always have. sometimes it's justified like ww2. if people die in defendinfg their country i understand but when doing it for practice nobody should perish. and of course said not to say anything or get a courtmarshall, it wan't even in the news. that was 50 years ago
mike