Originally Posted by
Pontius Navigator
How many of you steely eyed killers got a May?
I got a few intercepts on one in a helicopter ... I kid you not. (No, we were not able to join up, obviously).
He was coming in for a low pass, and our ship's radar controller started vectoring us for intercepts. We blazed along at all of the 135 knots we could get the machine to offer, were thankfully only in forward quarter engagements. The May turned away three times, though maybe not because of us. On the fourth intercept, the TAO (LCDR who was running CIC) got wind of what the controller was doing and called "knock it off." (Somewhere in the Med, 1984.) The two of us, upon RTB, got a talking to by our OIC for having too much fun. (He thought it was hilarious, but since the captain had been somewhat annoyed at the game we were playing, he told our OIC to give us a talking to. He did. He was amused so we got both coffee and doughnuts during that conversation).