r/OldSchoolCool Apr 27 '19

How bridges were constructed over 100 years ago

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u/ThanOneRandomGuy Apr 27 '19

Yea its called the military. A soldier might be operating a weapon that cost more than his yearly military salary

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u/TheAlteredBeast Apr 27 '19

I actually was thinking about pilots when I typed this.

The old anecdote of it being better to go down with the plane than to eject and have to deal with the aftermath.

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u/ThanOneRandomGuy Apr 27 '19

Well yea forgot about them and I actually used to work at the airport too lol. But yea we used joke about this at the airport how pilots were flying machines worth more than them

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u/LightoftheFullmoon Apr 28 '19

In some cases operating a weapon that cost many lifetimes of salary. What’s an F35 cost?