I'd say that while they may not be the superstitions you and I recognize as the tripe they are, there absolutely are safehold superstitions. We just haven't been told about them yet. Besides the ones passed on by the crew, inadvertently or not, it only takes one or two sufficiently catastrophic incidents to create a new vein of bad juju.
For example. Around 2002, maybe 2003 a pair of marine ch53e super stallions were bombed by an air force bomber while they were in a plateau overlooking gadoria (sic?) range in Djibouti Africa. If memory serves, those planes were side numbers 11 and 12. Fast forward a few years. Another squadron of 53's suffers a midair collision, the planes crash into godoria bay, within a few miles, and definitely sight of, the first accident. Side numbers 10 and 13. You can tell me that that was a coincidence all you want. I'm still not manning a plane with a side number of 09 or 14. That place is collecting sequential numbers!
