They are quite amazing...but it helps to have had 75+ years of practice.

Actually, they do!

“I also doubt they have the ability to track or find us in the open ocean, or even in the littorals...”

Yep, Evil...fear is a magnificent budget tool.

A great point...isn’t it amazing how history and geography motivate current events creating the opportunities you describe.

I hope you will consider writing a family history in the context of the wars we’ve fought...I can’t think of any other texts out there that could come from that angle...a history but lived and told through those who made it. PLEASE consider it...at the very least you have recorded their stories. You might even be able…

Outstanding! Continue to focus on school and always keep in mind that the bullshit you face in life/school right now isn’t worth a drop of sweat when you experience the reward of what you will live and feel when you sit in the front cockpit for the first time.

Phil...agreed. Our lack of foresight has brought us to this. When I left the Navy it was “Littoral-this, littoral-that.” And add the “war on terror” and we have lost the war for ASW.

Pyrrhic...I agree with you wholeheartedly. But I am one of probably 3 people who do in the US.

Evil! Thanks for the plug, sir.

What are your plans? Which branch and what platform do you want to pilot?

Words of a genuine fighter pilot!

Thinking about it further, any generic comparison will never do as you say. There are so many factors for each boat...crew (on any given day), equipment condition, environment at the moment of contact, skipper vs. skipper and his/her tactics, home-water advantage (if the skipper actually makes to time to immerse…

Another excellent consideration. Thanks for your thoughts.

That backseat should never, ever be empty. Someone missed some quality flight time.

Thanks for checking. Houfek was (is) amazing.

The temperature of the Indian Ocean also provides a helluva challenge to passive sonar as well.

Tyler, could you check your sources on the validity of a story in the Indian media that has the USS City of Corpus Christi being defeated by an Indian Navy Kilo in the recent naval exercise Malabar?

An article from Air & Space about a USAF mech who did something similar with an F-86:

In one sentence you have completely explained US-Middle East relations/history since the end of WW 1.