maxum96 wrote:
Scott WRG Editor wrote:
I always loved the Phantoms, especially back in the day of colorful schemes.
Me too. I lived under the flight path for Miramar starting in 1972.
I booted at RTC San Diego and was based later at Point Loma in '75 aboard a diesel pigboat. Occasionally we'd check out the enlisted club at Miramar which had a pretty good one that had a budget for some decent bands. We basically operated with the fleet and shore facilities showing them what a sub "did" in various exercises and war games.
One of those games led to 5 of us being scared s*itless by a Rhino....We were assuming the Aggressor profile of a Soviet diesel sub with medium range surface-to-surface missiles. We were to surface...go thru the time period for the launch...submerge and boogey. The fleet and/or shore response was ASW aircraft or aircraft acting as responding missiles.
So, we surfaced and were timing thru the launch period with an OOD and 4 lookouts...an ungodly long time of like 15-20 minutes(hence the 2 extra lookouts) for surfacing, raise the missile tubes, launch, lower tubes and scat. We were scanning the horizon for contacts when we got a announcement over the bridge speaker, "Bridge, Radar, We have a target bearing..." SHREEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKROOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had been tagged by an F-4 acting as a missile which had come in on the deck and pulled up just off our starboard beam about 50 foot overhead. The 5 of us basically screamed our favorite most handy expletives and geeeked-out in the worst case of "mass-hysteria-willies" I've ever witnessed.
Yeah....the Phantom has a special place in my spine somewhere...
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