I saw a LOACH get shot down by a HOE near Duc-Pho. The idiot pilot kept buzzing this dink who was working in his rice paddy and finally the dink flipped the hoe into the air as the LOACH made it's last pass. The hoe impacted the blades and the pilot had to put it down in the next paddy. We were laughing our a$$es off and the farmer made a hasty retreat. We had to secure the a/c until it could be lifted out by a slick. We told the pilot what a dumba$$ he was and also told him that if the bird wasn't hooked out by 4 pm we would take out the gun and radios and torch it. Helo's were mortar magnets when the sun went down.
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