Navy - 28 years...
We used to work with both the Pigs & the Hornets... Hornet pilots wouldn't fly the profiles we needed to simulate missile defence... The pig jockeys would fly sea skimming profile for us anytime we asked...
Those guys (& girls later) were NUTS!!
We had a pair one exercise come in at very low level pulling rooster tails of sea water behind them... one dipped his wings between our main mast & Air Search Radar whilst the other disappeared below our bow as they shot past...
Frigging NUTS!! However... really down to earth folk for RAAFIES... F18 pilots were Primadonnas by comparison...
Sadly, I was involved with the search for the one that speared in off the coast just off Sydney Heads in the 80's... we didn't find much...
I tip me hat to those Pig Jockeys... they had huge balls & they were NUTS!!