Lol!...has to be the ugliest flying machine...

Take 4 Advil before you view this:

Am I correct to assume that the same principle applies to the USAF’s ol’ HH-43 Huskie?

I did a very poor job of wording that quick post. Thanks for your comments and for the education...4 seconds!

Very well put.

That thought crossed my mind as well.

That is a brilliant question...thank you for asking (and I applaud your choice of name).

Hey, Doc....thanks...that sounds a bit more humane...however, a submariner here who served aboard diesel subs said that when the diesels are no longer taking air from outside the sub (when a high enough sea state causes the snorkel valve to close, for example) the immediate pressure increase felt like the literal…

Otto, thank you...I’ve run across his name but didn’t know he wrote so much.

Should’ve hung around you guys on the Nimitz and TR...

Well, either you’re calling me a bastard...questioning the patriarchal identity of my birth...or...maybe...asking am I a “shit” as well?

Thanks, Nate. To hear if from one who has been there is priceless.

I humbly submit to your “Uno-ness”

BTW, I’ve read the S-4 account before from other sources and the Morse code tapping of: “Is there any hope?” will always haunt me.

Thank you for the link...at some point in what remains of this life I hope to get up to the Nautilus’ museum.

Great summation of what you read...I see that brainwashing in many sectors of American life, but not with the immediate, violent payoff if you don’t obey.

Other comments have said they do...it is a good point.

Thank you for taking the time to look at it.

Interesting...thanks for your thoughts.

Sadly, as a young sailor, I would have celebrated...especially since we are trained to dehumanize our enemies to make it easier to kill them if we have too.