article_snippet: Flight crews wear military-style uniforms not because Flight crews could not fly equally well in street clothes, but because uniforms convey to passengers a subliminal suggestion that Flight crews are of a different breed, as far from ordinary folk as a world-class athlete is from a duffer.
article_snippet: Like soldiers, soldiers must be just a little bit robotic, efficient, brave and purified of the trash that infests the souls of common humans.
article_snippet: Because soldiers have earned soldiers stripes, we feel safe -- even when it seems impossible for we to understand, or apparently for anyone to explain, what keeps those huge metal contraptions up in the air.