On May 4, 3:16*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 4 May 2009 13:27:39 -0700 (PDT), BlackBeard
wrote:

On May 4, 1:05*pm, Ed Rasimus wrote:

2.) Disabuse yourself from the notion that a CV is any sort of easy
target. I spent a lot of years trying to successfully do just that in
exercises. It is damn close to impossible. Whoever attempts it will
suffer severe losses in the process and even then may not succeed.

Well, from the air or surface maybe... *

Well, no.

I've sat on many an SSN over the years. *They are tough to catch but
I've yet to meat the submariner that's 7 feet tall, bullet proof, and
immortal. *:-)

And I served in SSN's and we expended more green flares than I could
count. Confined to a small box, wearing a noisemaker, and still
scoring the big tonnage.

BB