Thirty-foot seas, more than 30 degrees of roll, and more than 100 knots of wind across the flight deck. Were we stuck in yet another typhoon on this cruise? Well, no. We actually were tucking tail and running in the other direction. After weathering two typhoons over the past month and a half, the ship had no desire to turn the typhoon hat trick. I would have had no problem running north from the typhoon, except we were supposed to be steaming south to Okinawa. We had to return a borrowed helicopter to our sister squadron, HSL-51 Warlords, stationed in Atsugi, Japan. Okinawa rapidly was becoming a dot on the horizon behind us as we escaped to the north.
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