Ambush
Day time ambush? I can't recall any, useually we were on the reciving end of those, and it wasn't what you would really call an ambush, we would walk up on a few VC/NVA and all hell would break loose, we would find 1 or 2 bodies , everyone would pat each other on the back for what a good job we did in beating back the Ambush.
Night ambush was a little different, ours were only done with 5 or 6 guys, we would set up in the middle of some thick area with claymores and hand gernades, If we made contact, we would set off claymores, and gernades and fire a bunch and get the hell out of there, and don't look back, The next day a company would go back into the area and look for what we shot up, more times than not what they found was a water buffalow or just nothing, after the first snap of a twig and the noise starts, uless they use tracers, you can't hear which way is up. All we would have with us was water and ammo, no talking and everyone awake. The hardest thing for me was the shivering from the cold. Man it was cold.
Ron
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