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Article: Scotland's beautiful, but I don't want to be a permanent part of it.(Joint Maritime Course, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United States Air Force Maneuver)(Brief Article)(Column)
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- January 1, 2002
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We were in the North Atlantic, flying off the coast of Scotland, in the annual British-run exorcise called the Joint Maritime Course (JMC). Our two-plane, three-crew detachment was working a round-the-clock ops on USW, ASUW, NGFS, you name it. Our ship successfully had prosecuted submarines, fired missiles, and coordinated air defense. The air department tracked four submarines; spotted and eliminated numerous patrol boats, and conducted a maritime interdiction operation. Our NATO counterparts were impressed with everything, except one helicopter crew.
That crew, when they got in the air, accomplished nothing. They got airborne, they dropped buoys, they streamed ...