As they go through basic training or flight school (once again it's the flyboys, and girls, vs. the grunts on the ground) and then into combat, "Starship Troopers" also revisits Hollywood clichis of every war that's ever been fought on the silver screen--including "Star Wars, " which, for these ahistoric recruits, is but a dim cultural memory.

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But in 1912, the school - and British flight training generally - still had a long way to go.

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By November 1981, I had completed officer training and was in Navy flight school to learn to fly jets.

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