Captain Watson and Captain Crieff
because I think that they would have the cutest friendship ever. They would write letters back and forth while John is in Afghanistan so that John could balance a bit of domestic comfort into his military life and so that Martin can have an actual hobby outside of being a pilot and have a potential BF for once
Don’t ask how or why Crieff got permission to fly an army transport plane or how John was allowed on the flight deck because I have absolutely no idea. I didn’t use the handshake scene from His Last Vow I swear