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There's a sick joke among us "black shoes", The ship'e officers on the Navy's flattops, When referring to the flight pay of the "brown shoes": "They don't make more money, just faster." Then it stops. Flying from flattops is a dangerous business. The mortality rate is regrettably high. So is the incidence of cancers among tar sands employees. How can it help but be when polution is everywhere that meets the eye? And lots of places where it is invisible. In lots of places where it can't be seen. In the air that they breathe, in the food that they eat. No one's admitting it, but perhaps their gasoline. Bitumen's one of the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. That's why they pay so much to get most carcinogens out. For many young "invincibles" who can't imagine getting sick, Like those gung-ho Navy pilots the end can come quick. With most tar sands cancers you get six moths, perhaps. Take your money to Vegas and blow it on women and craps. That's what those pilots do on their training cruises. A few rolls of the dice in Monte Carlo, then up, up and away to see whose launch or landing loses.
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