I’m married to an ex RN aviator. He used to fly to the deck in the days when we had aircraft carriers. He was neither wet nor useless.
Flying to the deck in the middle of an ocean that’s making the deck rise and fall when there is nowhere else to go, takes a certain kind of lunacy for sure, but it has nothing to do with being wet or useless.
Oh, and he thinks Top Gun is a pile of crap, And I think he includes Tom Cruise in that.