IIRC, 30% had jumped off garages or other roofs at least one story high.

Guilty. Balconies too. '

Of the jumpers, 70% liked it.

Well, i don't know about _liked_ it. Was a bit fun.

A smaller subset got into knife fights,
but again, an appreciable percentage liked it.

knife *fight* was good enough for me - those things hurt!

Our impression was that the ideal candidate was somebody that was enough
of an adrenaline junkie to REALLY SCARE fighter pilots if the fighter
types got to know them.

naaaa. similar personality type but with less of an 'air of superiority'.

I flew with some really fine helo pilots and only a fraction of a percent were
what I would consider introspective - for the most part, these were guys that
were rather normal on the ground except in their choices of entertainment.
mental image of a line of 14 armed men all unloading rather large magazines
into a lake, for no reason other than 1 of them started the process...

v/r
Gordon
PS, one of the things I noticed about helo drivers is that 90% bit their nails.
Odd little factoid, but after a few years on helos, I started looking at
pilots hands and with few exceptions, this was a common trait.
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