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Originally Posted by daft
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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. |
Out of the bunch I think Morton was a little unstable but it was a good mix that kept them in check. Notice it all went to hell when O'Kane is given Tang. Mortons voice of reason was now gone. Very interesting story between two personalities here.
Personally, I'm a Fyfe/USS Batfish fan. Talk about a cool character with another sub out in the dark, not just one time but three in three nights. He sunk them all, very cool when you matching fire with fire. Definitely one Skipper I would like to meet! That took a large set of kahunas to track three Japanese submarines in total darkness just using the radar that had to be turned off and on repeatedly so the Japanese would not pick up the Batfish. True, thrilling stuff there!!!