Airmen

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

The pilots are the only people who are called "airmen" by the military.

The perception of extraterrestrials as gods hinges on human psychology and cultural context. Imagine a scenario: a sleek, shimmering craft descends, and beings emerge who can heal diseases with a touch, manipulate gravity, or communicate telepathically. To a medieval peasant—or even a modern person unfamiliar with advanced tech—this might scream "divine intervention." Anthropologically, we see this pattern in cargo cults of the Pacific, where isolated tribes revered WWII airmen as gods because their planes and goods defied explanation.