-=> BOB KLAHN wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-   
      
    BK>  The military needs people to do almost any job you can imagine.   
    BK>  So if someone can do something, he can do it in the military.   
      
    BK>  Hell, with drones someone who can't walk can fly combat   
    BK>  missions. OTOH, I do believe it was in WWII there was a combat   
    BK>  pilot who had an artificial leg. British I believe. The pilot,   
    BK>  not just the leg.   
      
   Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Stuart Bader CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC & Bar,   
   FRAeS, DL (21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) -- and it was both legs. He   
   became a multiple ace flying a Spitfire for the RAF in WWII.   
      
   ... "Anything you people decide is fine with me." -- Col. Henry Blake   
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