“Since I started putting this data together,” Jake told the Colonel, “I’ve become a big fan of attack submarines.”
“Why don’t you say what you really think?”
“Yes, sir. Attacking a Soviet task group with free-fall bombs will be a spectacular way to commit suicide.”
“If the balloon goes up, we’ll go when we’re told to go, suicide or not.”
-from The Intruders, by Stephen Coonts.