Post by Anonymous Vet on Dec 10, 2002 7:59:45 GMT -5
just to give an example of how crazy we could be, my friend<cade>and i had to pull bunker guard on the perimeter in PHU LOI one night. I was sick and had a bad earache and to top it off it was right in the middle of the monsoon season. Nobody ever went inside those bunkers especially at night so we sat on top, covered ourselves with our ponchos as best we could and got soaked.Sometime in the middle of the night I remember becoming so frustrated, cold wet sick and getting our asses eaten by mosquitos I took the M79 grenade launcher and fbutired a round way out in front of the next bunker down from us.
Next thing you know we hear the sound of a 79 being fired from that bunker and it explodes way out in front of us. Now we send another one at them only walking it in a little closer and they did the same. We go back and forth , closer and closer untill we hear the sound of
a jeep screaming up to our bunker with the headlights out of course.Its the baes defense officer and he runs up to our bunker all pissed off wanting to know who the hell is doing all the firing out here.Remember, its just pouring out and he's not happy about having to leave his cozy TOC bunker to come out and see whats going on. anyway of course we said we din'nt know anything about anyone firing out there and we no sooner told him that when we heard that familiar
"plunk" and a round exploded pretty close to our bunker. The BDO screamed at those guys "you stupid SOB's, watch your line of fire!" and hops in his jeep and goes hauling butt towards them only he forgot to use the road and burys the jeep in the mud.Being this happened in the middle of the night we could'nt actually watch him walking through the mud to get to their bunker but we sure could hear him tearing them a new you know what. To their credit they never turned us in and we never heard anymore about it. I forgot all about being sick and life went on. Not too long after that,each bunker had a bunker commander who had to inventory every round of ammo, every change of guard.Peace to all who served!Tiny T
markthyne@cybrzn.com
Next thing you know we hear the sound of a 79 being fired from that bunker and it explodes way out in front of us. Now we send another one at them only walking it in a little closer and they did the same. We go back and forth , closer and closer untill we hear the sound of
a jeep screaming up to our bunker with the headlights out of course.Its the baes defense officer and he runs up to our bunker all pissed off wanting to know who the hell is doing all the firing out here.Remember, its just pouring out and he's not happy about having to leave his cozy TOC bunker to come out and see whats going on. anyway of course we said we din'nt know anything about anyone firing out there and we no sooner told him that when we heard that familiar
"plunk" and a round exploded pretty close to our bunker. The BDO screamed at those guys "you stupid SOB's, watch your line of fire!" and hops in his jeep and goes hauling butt towards them only he forgot to use the road and burys the jeep in the mud.Being this happened in the middle of the night we could'nt actually watch him walking through the mud to get to their bunker but we sure could hear him tearing them a new you know what. To their credit they never turned us in and we never heard anymore about it. I forgot all about being sick and life went on. Not too long after that,each bunker had a bunker commander who had to inventory every round of ammo, every change of guard.Peace to all who served!Tiny T
markthyne@cybrzn.com