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>>Oh, how I remeber the fun of sneaking up on russian ‘trawlers’, and scaring the crapp out of them.

Me, too. Then the Kinder, Gentler Navy removed our 20 million candlepower spotlights. Man, did turning them on make Soviet crews crap their pants!


17 posted on 05/16/2012 7:29:17 AM PDT by pabianice
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Me, too. Then the Kinder, Gentler Navy removed our 20 million candlepower spotlights. Man, did turning them on make Soviet crews crap their pants!


Dude, you go as far back as I do! P-3s haven’t had searchlights on them since the early A models in the mid-70s. loved to illuminate trawlers, but was always a little concerned by the flaming copper slag that dribbled into the basket at the bottom of the searchlight.... Lol.


19 posted on 05/16/2012 9:20:26 AM PDT by Afterguard
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