Branch brought this up the other night, and I agree. This is basically what happened to us (VF-17) on Friday.
Those late-frame fights in FSO, where only maybe 20-30 guys per side are still alive, and they're all the best pilots. You expand your patrol to find some action, and find a friendly base flashing. Your section leader decides to go for it, just the three of you, to find out what it is. You find two cons lower than you, and decide to press the advantage. You start mixing it up, pushing lower and lower, when before you know it, you are surrounded by 12-15 high cons, outnumbered 4 to 1. The nearest help is a sector and a half away, and for the next ten minutes all you can do to survive is break and extend. You have lost the initiative in a matter of seconds, and you cannot escape the frenzied pursuers. However as the outcome is looking more and more bleak, you see three flights of friendly fighters who were redirected to help you. Pretty soon, you drive off the attackers and gain superiority once more.
When you emerge from the worst possible situation in FSO without so much as a scratch, that gets the blood pumping
