We did it to them all the time.
Posted on 03/19/2009 8:47:31 PM PDT by NoLibZone
They are in international waters and have just as much right to be there as the carrier does.
The same as now. Intercept them a ways away from the carrier and escort them while in the vicinity. I was on active duty in the 70's and 80's and when we were in the Med or eastern Atlantic overflights were common.
We did it to them all the time.
It is only a game.
They were just adding realism to the exercise. I mean its not like we wouldn’t be engaged in real operations w S. Korea that wouldn’t entail Russian fighters moving on us.
“..........is a lamebrain, ignorant, or a treasonous libtard.”
Too sickeningly the state of our beloved Republic.
The foundation’s starting to crumble. God bless
and protect our awesome military, who may have to
make some stunning options in the coming years.
Russian pilots have no culture. That is they are uncultured or uncivilized, which translates, I think, to something of an insult in Russian. (Of course that's true of many of our younger pilots as well. :) )
If my wife's step niece had been about, or one of the wife's sisters in law, I could have gotten a real translation, the three of them being native speakers of Russian, instead of using Bablefish. But I ran that translation from English to Russian and then back, and the general meaning was preserved. When tried "unclutured", the reverse translation implied something not grown in a nutrient broth in a petri disk. :)
Oh yeah.
From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia . . . could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.
--Abraham Lincoln, speaking in 1838 in Springfield, Illinois.
Thanks! :-)
Thank you for my new tagline.
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