Is this zombies? That's ASB.
Ooc: there seems to be confusion within the tl. I doubt it would take three days for the us to hit Pyongyang
“I had only been on the JDS Ashigara as an exchange officer for 12 days when the bloody situation went down.
My official position in the crew was ADO but that was somewhat tenuous given me being an Aussie on an exchange program and having never served on a Aegis DDG before and while my command of Japanese was good, well good for an Australian that is, it was laughably inadequate – but the whole thing happened so bloody fast and so unexpectedly that I was the most senior and would you believe it the most experienced officer on board the old girl?
Tokyo was lucky that day – the Ashigara was equipped with some SM3 ABS missiles – and had 8 of her missile cells thus equipped – and was just completing a 5 day visit to the capital when the attack happened.
Despite the lack of senior officers – she had a good crew – Solid long term specialists you know?
Knew their stuff – right? Proper professionals!
Well they made me look bloody good that day – with only 4 targets we doubled down on each one – managing to very quickly determine what was a warhead and what was a discarded booster– and we got solid hits on all 4 missiles at about 20K.
Job done. Medals all round yeah?
Like I said Tokyo got very lucky that day – what with us tied up in the dock
Kobe...wasn’t so lucky.......”
Exert taken from the History Channel documentary ‘Night of a Dozen Suns’ (Episode 4 – interview with then Commander Ralph Vaughn Royal Australian Navy)
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