BEagle quote:
Since when did anyone listen to a Fighter Confuser's story.....
"A Few Good controllers"
You want the truth, pilot? You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a
world that has bogeys, and those bogeys have to be identified by controllers
with TPS-75s. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Major Stick Monkey? We
have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for
a colo(u)r display and a decent box lunch, and you curse the controllers. You
have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know—that
a receiver turn-on, while tragic, probably saves time; and my
existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, dominates the
electromagnetic spectrum. You don't want the truth because deep down in
places you don't talk about at parties, you want me in that radar—you
need me in that radar. We use words like "working," "unable," “merged”
and "Green, west." We use these words as the backbone of a life spent
frustrating the enemy. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the
time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who flies and fights
under the blanket of recommended vectors that I provide and then
questions the manner in which I provide them! I would rather that you just
said "thank you" and fly the heading. Otherwise, I suggest you take
the next Predator assignment that comes down. Either way, I don't give
a damn what you think you’re entitled to fly.
Yes, it's been done before..........