That's a fact. This year the major command selection board picked four Hornet pilots and three Tomcat radar intercept officers for the pipeline.
Previous years reflect the same trend.
Of course, that's also the way they came up. A closer look, however, raises some troubling questions about the integrity of a system that promotes officers by aircraft type as opposed to career performance. Of the seven officers selected for deep-draft major command this year, four were automatic picks based on their previous administrative selection for nuclear power training. The remainder were from the TacAir tailhook community. The real reasons are easy to see.