Comacazi pilots flew planes into enemy ships to reduce the chances of their country being occupied. They were supposed to be volunteers, but many historians will use the word volunteer with quotation marks because they were forced into moral quandaries. The comacasi pilots got an immediate increase in two ranks,. And if that's the case, well, now it's even a financial decision, right? You can die in a jungle somewhere and your families at one level of poverty, or you could increase the amount of money that the state pays to innow grieving families and widows for upkeep. Or you could die a hero. That wasn't their other option. Their other option was probably dying somewhere