The captain chooses his people himself

"The cavalry captain chooses his own men. During the winter, he travelled around the fighter schools and fighter squadrons and inspected the operations. He no longer gets his fighter pilots assigned ‘through official channels’. He is allowed to get them himself. And if anyone has an eye for faces and demeanour, for shooting skills and flying skills and for daredevils and non-daredevils, it's him. He has some damn hot chestnuts to pull out of the fire, and for that he needs people who can grab them quickly and get them out before they burn their fingers. The squadron can't afford ‘lazy’ airmen, i.e. those who don't know the razor-sharp word ‘ran!’."