Trip flares

[39mto39g]

The last time I did something someone told me to that I didn't think I should, I set off a trip flare, I said I would never do that again, (and didn't)
Night ambush/listening post training. on the way back to the platoon, the guy I was with said "lets go down this trail" I tought it was a bad idea but didn't say anything, then SNAP and it was daylight. I guess thats what training is for.

Ron

[DMZ-LT]

Ron , you are lucky you didn't get lit up. We had all our trip flares covered with automatic weapons and would fire up the area around a trip flare if one went off

[39mto39g]

You may have missed one important word in my post "Training"
It was at Fort benning. I would hope not to get lite up.

Ron

[DMZ-LT]

Least it ain't the first important thing I have missed , just ask my wife !!

[Andy]

As some of you know in thick jungle it's hard to put out trip flares very far, well you could but it wouldn't do a lot of good. In those situations we'd have a 60 or a 50 covering the trip flare but often would also have a claymore about 15 or 20 feet back.

One night we knew we had a kill, as a result of someone walking into one of our trip flares. A claymore was blown and a .50 cranked off a lot of rounds at the point where the flare was. In the morning and after about 5 minutes of looking at "it", we determined it must have been a monkey. There was little left but not even Italian guys had that much hair on their backs.

Stay healthy,
Andy

[Packo]

It probably was a Polish Monkey! Or you killed a Wookie.

Packo

[39mto39g]

Andy killed big foots baby. Thats why there extinct.

Ron

[frisco-kid]

I, too, saw a monkey killed on our perimeter one night. When we looked at it the next morning, due to the slope of it's forehead and the hair on it's back, we thought it was this Polack kid from 1st platoon. .

Thought I'd get a call from you this weekend. I'll try one night this week.

[Andy]

Packo has much more experience with Polish women than me. If he says they have hairy backs, ok, I didn't know. I was always attracted to the little French or Italian ones. But all the Polish guys we had were way too big to be what was left of that thing in the wire.

Frisco, what the hell do you know about the Polish? You live in California where everyone changes their name to avoid prosecution. (It was a very long weekend with more company than we expected.)

Ron, maybe that animal had big feet, maybe not. There really wasn't a lot left of it. If we killed a big foot baby, sorry bout that but anyone (anything) that tripped a flare was dead meat. We had sort of a rule about that.

During the dry season anyone else pop trip flares to start a fire and clear out tall grass and whatever from an open area? With there never being any wind, damn fires came back on us more than once.

Stay healthy,
Andy

[39mto39g]

Dry season????????
i remember wet-hot-wet wet-hot hot-wet hot- and hot wet, but no dry, when was that?

Ron