The next time my ROTC instructor asked, “Who here wants to be a pilot?” I raised my hand. After years of keeping my head down, I seemed to catch him off guard. “Oh, what do you want to fly?” In front of my entire class, I replied, “Fighters.” I think I sounded confident, even if I didn’t feel it. “You know how you can tell there’s a fighter pilot in the room?” he asked. “How?” “They’ll tell you.”
