[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I remember one time, I was training a friend of mine for 688i opperations. I set up a really simple training map with some land targets, and a few non armed surface ships so I could train him how to recieve radio messages, launch missiles at land targets and how to track sea contacts. I set our subs relatively near each other so we would both be recieving the same or similar contact information from the targets we were to track together. He knew nothing of Dangerous Waters at the time so I was pretty much teaching him from scratch.
The missile launches against the "enemy bunkers" went off perfectly. So we then began our tracking of the Cathy Lee Gifford ocean liner (That we planned on sinking to the bottom in no short order). Things went perfect. We tracked it durring several turns. I taught him how to zig zag to get a decent bearing and he was doing GREAT ! I then said "Now we get to shoot !"
I showed him how to designate a target for his torpedo, how to set it up for the attack, and how to fire.
Both of us together fired a single torpedo at the ship.
Suddenly, my sonarman yells at me "TORPEDO IN THE WATER" and I hear ping..ping..pingpingpingpingPINGPINGPING !!!! and before I can even switch the screen to drop a countermeasure and run like hell.... BOOM !!! There's suddenly a LOT of water inside my sub and I fall to the bottom of the ocean like a lead sinker with my ship bent into the shape of kielbasa.
Apparently, the contact that he was following was ME and not the ship and I thought he was doing so well cuz he was turning right with me and getting pretty much the same bearings I was. hehehe.
The next time we did a training mission, the radio message I set up said "RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: DO NOT TORPEDO THE INSTRUCTOR !"

Were you dating his girlfriend without telling him at the time?