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Top-Gun Navy pilots fly at the extremes. The @USNavy is now investigating whether years of “catapult launches” 
& high-speed maneuvers by fighter-crew pilots can result in traumatic brain injury.
“When you launch from the carrier, you accelerate from zero to almost 200mph in 2 seconds, and your brain gets squished to the back of your skull. You can heal from that once—you can heal from it 10 times. But I did it 750 times.”
Some top pilots become confused, erratic, depressed,1/2
incur lapses in memory & several committed suicide in their 40s. This sounds eerily like football players 
who develop #CTE after years of repeated concussive hits—but here, the opponent appears to be invisible G-forces…
Gift: https://shorturl.at/FPxfY #tbi #press #braininjury #CTE
@cbarbermd I guess no Navy fighter pilot is unaware of doing a job carrying risks like physical harm or even loss of the pilot's life along. Excellent training may minimize many risks, but a 100% risk-free job in the military is an illusion.
If I don't like the prospect of possible brain traumata by piloting a jet being catapulted at high speed off of an aircraft carrier, did I choose the right job?