"DUCK!" You make a good target
Pompous fools rarely survive combat
{Background: Top US Government
officials & the military brass hotly denied
that Russian helicopters were fighting in Vietnam...but we knew better!}
The way I remember it all starting was with the Q4 radar we had at the "Oasis" telling me that they had a strange target on the border that would pop up and down and go back and forth across the border. I fired several fire missions using artillery at the Oasis, back in late Dec. or Jan. and filed a report with DivArty.
The next thing I
knew some Major from
It was raining and I was kinda grungy-looking as compared to this
Major. We were in the slit trench with a periscope and I told him to use
it and look over at
Zing-splat!
Incoming bullet.
The round zipped past his head and slapped into the mud behind him. The next thing I knew I was looking down at him at the bottom of the trench. There he was with mud, head to foot, and all over his shiny spit-shined boots, and helmet. I finished lighting my cigarette with a smile on my face, as I did not have to say another word. He didn’t say much after that. Boy, I bet he really missed that overstuffed leather chair back in Washington, D.C.
The next thing I knew we got the Hawk missile battery sent to us at the Oasis from the coast, but no missiles! I guess he still didn’t believe….
Lt Mike Kurtgis