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Originally Posted by chickennoodle77
Would the military even accept an aging 33 year old whose hand eye coordination is clearly in decline based on his batting averages.
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You mean a guy that, say, had batted close to 40 points below his career average through the age of 30 during his 31 year-old and 32 year-old seasons?
Gosh, what sort of stupid army would take that guy for anything? Hell, it's not like he would serve in the Marines, for crying out loud......he's in decline and worthless....maybe as a cook, in the Army. How much harm could he do there? No way this guy could handle something as hand-eye intensive as, I dunno, flying a fighter jet. He's down 40 points. He has shown he doesn't have those skills, anymore. If the guy in the OP is going to fly a fighter jet in combat then this is a completely unrealistic storyline and should be turned off.
"On May 1, 1952, at the age of 33, Williams was recalled to active duty for service in the Korean War....After eight weeks of refresher flight training and qualification in the F9F Panther jet fighter at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Williams was assigned to VMF-311, Marine Aircraft Group 33 (MAG-33), based at the K-3 airfield in Pohang, South Korea....In Korea, Williams flew 39 combat missions before being withdrawn from flight status in June 1953 after a hospitalization for pneumonia. This resulted in the discovery of an inner ear infection that disqualified him from flight status.[131] During the Korean War, Williams also served in the same Marine Corps unit with John Glenn; the future astronaut described Williams as one of the best pilots he knew.[129] In the last half of his missions, Williams was flying as Glenn's wingman."
Ted Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OOTP is so unrealistic. Someone needs to fix this.