Masters of the Air Part Two Full TV Reaction!!
Added 2024-01-26 16:16:07 +0000 UTC
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I'm finally caught up, and just noticed that Part 3 just got uploaded. I've been wondering about that Colonel that vomited blood in Part 1 and got replaced off screen in Part 2. At the beginning Part 2 they make it sound like the combat mission caused his ulcer to rupture, but we saw him already vomiting blood in Part 1. I wasn't sure if the show wants us to think that the Colonel went on that mission intentionally, knowing that any problem with his ulcer could get him sent home - rather than being hospitalized on base. I was wondering anyone else thought that same thing.
Brandon
2024-02-02 17:14:47 +0000 UTCThe Best Years of Our Lives..I quite agree. The Schmitts need to watch it.
Anthony Perez
2024-02-02 00:39:31 +0000 UTCSame here! I wish more reactors would watch it. Such a beautiful film!
Catherine LW
2024-01-31 19:08:23 +0000 UTCBest Years of Our Lives is one of my all-time favorites!!!
Michael Soukup
2024-01-31 03:46:49 +0000 UTCEnjoyed the reaction, you two! I almost commented in the first episode that they seemed to fail to convey how cold it was and many men succumbed to frostbite, but they covered it in this episode. You’re right in noticing how different combat was for flyboys compared to infantry and sailors. The airmen were resented by other servicemen because they perceived their experience as more glamorous. Whiskey, women and hot food, envied by many. I’m reading the book and I didn’t know how horrific their deaths can be. I had to put it down for a while, it was so disturbing. One old film I highly recommend is The Best Years of Our Lives, which won Best Picture in 1946, covering three post war servicemen adjusting to civilian life. PTSD, disability, alcoholism, unemployment, marital woes… all experienced by a sailor, soldier and airman. Director William Wyler, a veteran himself, wanted to tell the American public what it was like for these men. It’s a beautiful film covering heavy issues with sensitivity and great humanity, ending with hopefulness. Highly recommended!
Catherine LW
2024-01-30 03:18:31 +0000 UTCAlso, I don't know about then, but now there are so many specialized jobs for maintaining aircraft. While working on the F-22 I was a Low Observable Aircraft Maintainer, but I would work alongside munitions, fuels, crew chiefs, avionics, non-invasive inspections, weapons, quality assurance, engines, aircraft ground equipment, flight-line maintainers, etc. Those are just the specialized jobs I remember off the top of my head. That's not including all the other roles on the ground that support those roles, and all the office staff that runs each of those units and so forth. Often times, to fix one damage on an aircraft nowadays, you have to call out several different departments to access and fix certain damages. It can be a quite complicated system compared to back in the days of "legacy" aircraft as we call them, when you could just take hammers and sheet metal to fix most aircraft. When the whole system works well, it can be quite impressive how so many units can come together quickly to achieve an important mission, but it only takes one unit or one person to really mess the system up, which I've also seen many times.
Forrest
2024-01-27 07:04:49 +0000 UTCAlso, to answer your question about the colonel flying, it really is often because they have more power and can make that decision. It may just be because he wanted to see action and was sick of being behind a desk, who knows? When I was in the Air Force a few years back, a colonel went up in an F-22 and blew an engine pushing it to its limits during a training mission because he was about to retire. When he landed, all the maintainers were pissed that he blew the engines just basically doing a joy ride. Don't know if he got in any trouble, I doubt it though. Also, kind of a cool sidenote, the same insignias you see painted on some of these planes, such as the classic "Stars and Bars" and so forth, continue to be painted on our various aircraft today. Painting those insignias on the F-22 as part of my job was a small thing I was proud of doing while in the Air Force.
Forrest
2024-01-27 05:53:36 +0000 UTCThe mustaches is very much just a common military tradition. Having served four years in the Air Force not too long ago as an aircraft maintainer, I'd say well over half the men I served with had mustaches at least most of the time. Of course, the pilots or flight crews tended to get away with bushier mustaches than your maintainers. lol
Forrest
2024-01-27 05:43:33 +0000 UTCI've seen it! I'm a little behind the very last season, but I agree with your take! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-01-26 17:01:05 +0000 UTCYou two need to watch ‘Only Murders in the Building’. It’s a hilarious murder mystery series that keeps you guessing, it’s witty, and so good. Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez.
Rudy Hernandez
2024-01-26 16:31:16 +0000 UTC
