[Superman]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

It will need a sea story:

I was flying down to Andros Island in the Bahamas...there is an instrumented undersea range there in a place called the Tongue of the Ocean, 1000 fathoms. We were headed down to test some new Anti-sub gear and had range time with an LA Class boat.

We would usually stop at NAS Mayport (right hear Jax) for the night.

It was a summer day in Fla so all the line folks (the young kids who direct you to park on the ramp) were in white tee shirts. All were wearing cranials and goggles.

It was apparent that our young line person was a woman, a very well put together woman. Helo rotor wash is a wonderful equalizer...we didn't, uh, have to use our imagination at all.

As we shut down and applied the rotor brake, she stepped back and began to take off her cranial, as she did so shoulder length blond hair cascaded out...she leaned back and gathered her hair in a quick pony tail, smiling at us.

She was beautiful. Naturally so. I opened my door and she came, looking up at me with the bluest eyes, searching, gazing into mine like....


Anyway...there is not such beast as elective or cosmetic surgery in any of the services that is not the result of injury in the line of duty.

Carry on.

This is one of those events that etch themselves into our memory for good, regardless of how many years have gone by.