I wonder what they do with the other half of the second pilot...
-edited to add something relevant-
If they do use the old naval practices for squadron/wing designations(although there's no reason they shouldn't, a lot can change over that length of time), the Midway would have a fairly large amount of squadrons... we only hear of three squadrons doing all the work, however. Confusing. I mean, I could see Marshall being stuck in charge of 15 pilots, on merit of experience alone, but 84 pilots? You may as well load those pilots into cap-missles, because they'd all be dead. (although, we do see Maniac finally starting to become a responsible leader in WCP...)
Not to mention we see no other squadrons, and about 45 pilots total... where are the other pilots/ships? Are there just extra fighters kept in repair/storage until needed for a particular mission? (which would make a bit of sense, but I doubt they'd have 250+ fighters for 45 pilots.) If the extra pilots existed, why the heck don't we see them on Midway scrambles? (generally, I'd think a scramble in emergency would spew forth as many fighters as possible.) They'd need specialized pilots for specialized jobs. Bomber pilots don't often fly fighters, they are trained just to go in, bomb, and get out. Fighter pilots aren't really taught the complexity of a bomber. (then again, it could be explained away by saying that the coming years would have simpler fighters, ones even a trained chimp could fly... we are talking about space here. Falling out of the sky because you're used to a F16 and flying a C130 wouldn't be an issue really.)
Although, flying bombing and fighter missions was fun, I'd seriously doubt they'd transfer a specialized pilot around from ship-type to ship-type (not like Rapier to Sabre, I mean Rapier to Broadsword(takes a whole other style of flying to survive in one of those babies)"You did so good as a interceptor pilot, we're going to stuff you into a large hulking mass with explosives strapped to it and no manouverability! Congratulations!"
For gameplay's sake I'm glad they went that way, but it wasn't really sensible to bounce Blair back and forth between fighters and bombers and back to fighters... He was good at both, true, but who is to say that Casey was? Unusual...