The a$$bag who didn't pull his fair share/hang his own 6 out like the rest of us but drops one down the smokestack or gets a lucky bandit off target and flies back to the ship for his victory roll will soon find his belongings drifting in the wake. Keep it up and his own behind will join his goodies aft of the ship.
It seems to me that a peloton has to work together as much as each individual needs to look out for number one, hence a notion that it is as much as a 'team' effort as it is a dogfight in the endgame. While there's no honor among thieves, I regard the peloton at least one rung up on the social ladder, no???
Build a hundred bridges, and you're a bridgebuilder. But suck one wheel, and you're a wheelsucker...
And yes- if I was strong enough to pull the little ba$tard and still win, I wouldn't be griping, now would I?