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    10 hours ago

    But what’s also true is the fighter pilot flyovers,

    Not positive on this one, but I think pilots need to regularly fly a certain number of hours in different types of aircraft to maintain their pilot rating or improve it. If they have to fly anyway, at least this way taxpayers get to see what they’re paying for instead of the same flight hours occurring over some desert or mountain range far away from people.

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      9 hours ago

      They do.

      However the flyovers and other military displays during sporting events were originally done as a recruitment tool.

      An advertisement for the military.

      It has nothing to do with deliberately planning flight hours for pilots, the hours are a secondary benefit.