(Though there's a whole side story about a character who was supposed to be the PoV character in Currahee, and then die in a training accident to prove that the situation was serious, but the actor playing him pissed off TPTB so much they rewrote AND reshot the episode to cut his character).

Wow.

And the Bloody 100th had a HILARIOUSLY cursed time at training too, at one point they were trying to do a cross country flight from Nebraska to California, and one of the forts ended up in Tennessee!

That would have been delightful to watch, and what's more, it would have made a good buildup to their unhilariously cursed fog-scrubbed mission.

Even a brief intro would have helped Masters of the Air a lot. The whip-round of the voiceover really doesn't compensate. And again, medias res is a time-honored mode of dropping into a story, I don't understand why everything is so slightly out of focus here.

Plus Marge (the blonde from the first episode) and Cleven were actually childhood sweethearts who met up again while he was training in Texas, which is kind of a sweet story, if they had to include her.

Yeah, seriously, coming into this story with no historical knowledge of any of the characters, she just registers as J. Random Blonde.