Re: Who will tell me a story?

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:35:00 -0400, Gary Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:
>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

Well, good grief Gary. There were some good old boys on my ship. Bless
their hearts.

I've seen one of those pretend trawlers as well. So many antennas and
gear, no place for fish, but they did have something resembling nets.
-- 
Jim