What Are The Odds Of Something Like This Happening?

Why not, there are thousands if not millions of retired reservist out there, consider this, it takes 20 years to retire from the Military, if you join when your 17 with your parents consent that would out you at 37 when you are eligible to retire , that is young still right, with that and life expectancy of say 75 at say only 5 percent of the population joining and then 3 percent of that actually staying in to retire. Yep its in the Millions Id say

2 out of 44 is less than 5%. Big deal. You tend to see higher percentages of military from cities like Buffalo where there is more of tradition of military service than in what be called more liberal leaning cities.

However, I think it is also just a horrible coincidence. Like the woman who was a 9/11 widow who also died in that plane crash. Sometimes situations align.

Is possible, consider military personnel make up large U.S. population. Military people need to flight too.

Also, there were two jazz musicians on that flight. They were members of Chuck Mangione's band. Coincidence, I think not.

Seriously? I think it was random. Probably friends traveling together.

you're sick