Post by timelegend on Jan 20, 2003 14:48:33 GMT -5
The two accounts of strange but true events happen in IV Corps to me during my tour. Members of my unit know these events happened.
I was stationed at Vinh Long Air Field in IV Corps the Mekong Delta from Dec69 to Dec70. These events happen to me after I had been in country for over 7 months.
The first event happen back at the airfield I had retired for the night in our wooden hooch, on the second floor. I remember waking up and it was silvery colored due to the full moon shining into the hooch. I got out of bed and looked at the mattress and I was still lying in bed. I felt so light I was confused so I walked outside and continued to walk out into the perimeter and into the single canopy jungle. I walked for miles and it was the Monsoon cycle and it started to pour. I was able to walk in between the raindrops that seem to come down in slow motion. Next thing I knew I was in a middle of a fire fight. I recognized the unit that was pinned down they were the 9th Inf Div. I tried to talk to them but no one could see me or hear me. When a Mortar exploded right near me I felt my body being pulled back at a tremendous speed and I woke up physically. I told the story the next day to members of my unit MACV they laughed at me. Then the sound of Medivac choppers echoed in our ears and we rushed to the flight line. They were bringing in wounded from the 9th Inf Div. Later that day those wounded soldiers gave an exact account of the battle just as I had done and from that point on the men in my unit stayed clear of me and called me the units psychic.
The second story happened as I was out on patrol with the 7/1CAV Troop C from Vinh Long. Our destination was an old French Rubber Plantation. We were only a few clicks from the target when I got this strange feeling I had been here before. I went to the CO, Lt Pearson, and told him I knew a way into the plantation other than the main trail that we were on. He thought I was weird and did not believe me. I kept being persistant, something inside of me said to take the way I knew. Finally some of the other men confirmed my first experience and asked the CO to take a chance on what I was telling him. I showed him on the OP Map the trail I remembered. It wasnt even on the map that made him more leary of me and what I was saying. He finally gave in and we took the route not on the map. I took the unit to an old trail grown over and barely visible and we followed it to the plantation. When we arrived we caught Charlie getting ready to go out the trail we were originally coming in on. If we stayed on the original trail we would either have been ambushed or would have run smack into Charlie.
Dennis
MACV IV Corps