As Pugs said, in the military you do things that have to be done. Period. I took off in a combat emergency once during the Vietnamese monsoon. The field was closed being below IFR minimums, so I took off VFR in that little bug smasher over there under my name. Once off the runway, there was no way to come back and land. I went. I found my team that was in a fire fight. I got shot at, but I got the team out. Oh, and the two Vietnamese helicopter crews launched in those same conditions. All of us eventually found the field again and landed. Illegally.
In civilian life? no flipping way would I even THINK about doing that.
