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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
I'm currently reading 'Unrestricted Warfare' The book as far in as I read has O'Kane/Morton patrols. These two guys for whatever forces were put together and became sinking machines. Sometimes Mortons ideas to bring the fight to enemy were so outlandish that O'Kane had to talk Morton out of some of the crazy ideas. But, it was aggressive guys like this that took chances and lived by the skin of their teeth that go the job done. I'm guessing it was the youthful aggressivness and big sub that they were instructed to go sink ships. Just think of yourself at that age being told to go blow things up and here is the sub to do it with. You have our blessing! Have fun and come back soon!
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Indeed, I think O'Kane is the most aggressive submarine officer I've ever read about. I seem to remember one of the Wahoo officers (could have been Grider, but I'm not sure) describing him as potentially unstable though. I tried finding what he meant, but other than his sometimes overly aggressive tactics (Morton actually had to temper O'Kane at one time in Wahoo, reminding him that Morton was in charge and that O'Kane could practice whatever tactics he deemed fit once he got his own command), I drew a blank. They were indeed a perfect match though and O'Kane's admiration of Mush really shines through in both his books.