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We had the son of a bitch. He did what I'd counted on. I knew
what he was going to do. I knew I could watch him and I told him:
"okay, you wait a second; Okay, we got him." He's changing modes.
He's flipping switches, turning off turbines, and all kinds of stuff. He's
fixing to come up to talk to the Russians and see what they want him to
do. They said: "How can you know this?" "I know this skipper, trust
me." I said. "The sun is coming up in fifteen minutes. By the time the
sun comes up, give me a sea [reading], how tall are the waves out
here?" And they were about twelve feet, you know, smooth ocean but
twelve foot curling swells of wave. She'll broach, come through the
water. He's gonna have to get close enough to the surface to talk to his
people and we're gonna catch this guy on the surface. And the sun
came up, and one minute after sunrise we were right down his peri-
scope flying straight in to him. Just like that!
And they said: "Mac, how did you know that?" I said: "Because I
read the book. I studied this guy. I watched him." We had flown thirty
something missions on this guy. Thirty times ten is three hundred
hours. "You guys don't look at this stuff. You don't talk to the other
operators. You brag about your take-offs and landings. You're pilots
not analysts." There's that pressure still building.
BOC: Wayne Gretzky says: "I skate to where the puck is going to be."
People think it just comes; yet it only comes because they put every-
thing into knowing how...
GM: I had difficulty understanding that question. I'm not a hockey per-
son. There's a round rink. I went to a street fight one time and a hockey
game broke out.
BOC: It's like calling somebody an overnight success, a performer,
you're not...
GM: Well, twenty-five years is not quite overnight.
BOC: And I think it's the people like you. You knew this guy in every
sense.GM: I wanted him.
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O'Connor, Brian Clark; Copeland, Jud H., 1943- & Kearns, Jodi L. Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna, book, 2003; [Lanham, Maryland]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83323/m1/41/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.