Re: Who will tell me a story?

On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 09:37:55 -0600, a cat <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'd like to hear one!

Well, I was too young and dumb to be scared:
My Navy anti-sub patrol squadron was assigned to patrol a restricted
zone off Christmas Island (the one in the South Pacific, now returned
to its islander name; "Kiribati), where B-52 bombers would drop the
occasional H-bomb, using a radar reflector a few miles off our flight
line as ground zero. I never thought "Hey, if that bombardier is just
a little off...."
We never spotted any ships foolish enough to violate the restricted
zone, but there was a Russian fishing boat _just_ outside the line.
Best equipped fishing vessel you ever saw; antennas from stem to
stern!  we picked it up on radar and flew over, just to have a look,
barely clearing the mast....the crew were playing vollyball on deck,
doubtless bored to death. In the "Bow lookout" seat (plexiglas nose
cone below and forward of the cockpit, crew electrician, good ole
Tennessee boy.
"Flight from Bow-one a them Russkies gave me the finger; what should I
do?"
Pilot: "Well, give it back!"
Bow: "But I give it ta him first!"
It can't compare with riding out a hurricane in a tin can; this old
airdale is OK with thatI

-- 
Gary Woods O- K2AHC