As cool and secret-squirrel as Ross seems in the movie, the fact is that in this guy's past he's had to listen to one of his exhausted NCOs tell him the reason the aircraft failed inspections is because one of the maintainers was distraught over the death of his D&D character
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This came up a while back in that scandal where the astronaut lady was stalking her ex and drove across the country in a stimulant-fueled manic episode wearing astronaut diapers to confront him People very carefully saying that being "weird" is normal for astronauts
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It's a very high stress job picked from a very small talent pool and the old school test pilots who became astronauts had plenty of less than savory means of "blowing off steam" that the media just graciously didn't report
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One of the little facts about the war that I love is that Roald Dahl was very likely an ace, but also believed it to only have happened because he was dumb enough to try something he really shouldn't have early on and somehow didn't die.
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Roald Dahl's bizarre panoply of personality problems that made him "difficult" now in hindsight reads as all too common for the kind of broken person who joins the military looking for dangerous jobs in the first place and then leaves it with a huge dose of untreated PTSD
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