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While some people could be tempted with "paid 3x as much..."

...3x as much as an Air Force pilot whose job is to...wait for it...sometimes drop bombs on people and kill them.

Let me know if you need a step ladder to help you off that high horse.

What makes you think that most people who join the military would be strongly averse to killing people? Even if you're flying pure reconnaissance you're helping and enabling the people doing the killing.

There are so many core misconceptions you have about the nature of volunteer service in an armed profession, its people, and your statement is so tangential and charged with auxillery purpose that i question whether you actually care about the pilot shortage at all