Re: [GZG] [OFFICIAL] Question: troop-carrying VTOLs....?

At 9:28 AM -0800 11/25/08, Fred Kiesche wrote:
>Funny how I read "this is SF" and interpreted this as "this is a
Special Forces vehicle"...
>
>The crew might now want the grunts to have such free access. The crew
might have a separate armored compartment, increased crew protection
since they fly in and out, are potentially under fire both ways.
>
>Plus it probably costs more to train a aircrew than a bunch of grunts,
so the government might want to armor the crew compartment.

If they're Special Forces, I would argue that a military probably has a
similar amount of time and money invested in their training as they do
in the pilots and crew chief. Even regular infantry in a modern 1st
world military has a LOT of time and money invested in their workup.

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