The one word you use in military flying is duty. It's your duty. You have no control over outcome, no control over pick-and-choose. It's duty.
Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.