That's idiotic, the average age of fighter pilots is about 30 with training and all.  Most pilots don't even graduate from college until they are 22.  Then they have years of training.  It's not about sharpness of youth, it's about experience.  Just like 70 years olds are often better drivers than 18 year olds.

Fighters and attackers are all pretty close in difficulty.  The Air Force has about the same number of attackers as fighters.  Even though an attacker doesn't get into dogfights, people will still want to fly them.  Plus the best of the best fly fighters, then the ones that are just below are attackers, bombers, then they get ...

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