military sergeants.
It's good you told them, so they're aware. It wouldn't have been allowed in the Royal Australian Air Force, but the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps didn't blink an eye. We needed strong mental connections to pilot jaegers together, and the strongest were often between loved ones. Siblings, parents and children, couples. We had one pair of rangers, a married couple, who held the record for the longest and most stable mental connection in their jaeger.