At the end of the day he wore them to eat. The third thing everyone facing combat must deal with, according to Welsh, is fear. The folks who have been in ground combat will tell you that it's kind of soaking fear. It's darkness, big noise, almost paralyzing moments followed by huge adrenaline rushes. Aerial combat's different than that.
Aerial combat happens at a thousand miles an hour.
It comes, and then it's over just like that. Air, sea and land combat take different training, different kinds of leadership and different types of people, he said. But fear is a constant among them all. Welsh said there are many ways of dealing with these issues, but faith was most significant to most of the people in his organization. He related preparing to go out on his first combat mission and finding Father John waiting at the nose of his airplane.