Nick Hull wrote:

Plus, once you sign up you can be recalled later in life for any
purpose. An office mate of mine had a father who had retired from being
a B-52 pilot and was over 65. He was recalled to be a helicopter pilot
in Vietnam and mentioned he was the youngest in his survival school
class. McNamara calculated it was cheaper to have them killed than to
contimue paying pensions.

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Nick, you sure your buddy wasn't pulling your leg or maybe stretching
things a bit? Hard to imagine the military recalling a 65 year old
fixed wing pilot to have him fly choppers in combat. And it's also
hard to imagine that there would have been older people in a survival
class. How old was the oldest? 75, maybe?

Not saying that it couldn't be true, just that it seems awfully
unlikely.

John Martin