Sean, did you ever serve? I can't remember. I know that when I did, pretty much every soldier I knew, would have loved to see our commander doing the types of jobs that we did... You know the dirty work, grunt work etc... Bush may have taken this opportunity to do a "photo op" but he also honored those men, by showing them that their President was a skilled and accomplished pilot just like a lot of them.... It is a major morale boost to see your leader doing your job.....