In article , "Gord Beaman"
) wrote:

Howard Berkowitz wrote:



Assuming he was an ASW pilot, where would he have seen combat?
Certainly, after the WWII ASW people retired, there was no one who saw
actual combat in that specialty, except a few Brits at the Falklands.
Did lots of ASW pilots participate in pindown, just-short-of-war
operations? Without question, in the Cold War.

Given that there were no airborne combat with subs between 1945 and
1982, how would you get people with experience in the current systems,
against a much more capable threat?

You don't need to be firing live ammo, dropping live depth
charges and torps to get experience in using all the latest
gadgets and gizmos Howard.

It's a much practiced skill. World wide competitions are held in
the science by almost every Armed Force in existance.

I agree completely. That's why I question people who say an ASW flight
crew member was "avoiding combat."


Matter of fact you likely get more skill in their use when you
aren't worried about getting yer goodies blown off. ASW is about
99 percent work and skill in detection and localization and 1
percent in the coup de grace.

Doesn't take a lot of skill to drop a string of 8 mk54's at 50
foot spacing across a sub from 50 feet when you know exactly
where he is. Tends to ruin his day too .

Now, if you wanna have a beer in the mess with him tonight you
substitute 8 SUS (signals underwater sound) for the Mk 54's and
do so...
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-Gord