Ok, that made me chuckle. Well done.
A friend’s brother was a SEAL. Retired in about 2005. He joined us on a hunting trip. He told a funny Helo story.
Said they had to do a dog and pony show for a bunch of Academy Midshipmen.
So it’s night, a 53 comes up and they throw out an inflatable boat and a bunch of SEALS. The boat had a light stick taped to it so it didn’t vanish in the dark.
In the discussion afterwards a Midshipman commented that he didn’t think it was tactically sound to have that light stick on it because a sentry could see that.
He said he told the kid that someone in a position to see the light stick could also probably see the largest helicopter in the free world hovering 15 feet above it.
Yes... he got called in and told to reign the sarcasm in a little bit.
But his re-enactment of an imagined conversation between two sentries on the beach was comedy gold. “I don’t see the light you are talking about”. “Look, right there underneath that giant helicopter”.
Good stuff.