2007-06-09 08:30:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Happened all the time because of enemy subs, you stop, sub fires, more military dead. It was not until the helicopter came along where they could rescue them.
2007-06-09 08:41:24 · answer #1 · answered by Tom Sh*t 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that sort of thing happened. The Task-Force has a PIM and a schedule... you can't stop for anything !! That even happened on occassion with whole SHIPS !!
Not a fun thing to be floating out there... I recovered 4 man-overboards as a helicopter-rescue swimmer in the 80's-90's.
2007-06-09 09:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by mariner31 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yep. If that was real life with the same scenario back then he wouldn't have been rescued. He shouldn't have been screwing around in the first place. They wouldn't have stopped a whole fleet of ships for one moron that chose that time and place to horse around. It would have put thousands of other people lives at risk trying to stop all those ships.
2007-06-09 08:51:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
As a Navy man this upset me and it wasn't explained in the movie. My guess is the ships were all in formation (they are all on the same course) so they would have to break formation to pick him up. And I guess one ship changing course could cause a collision with another ship and put hundreds of lives in danger.
2007-06-09 08:51:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-06-09 09:40:59 · answer #5 · answered by oldhippypaul 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋