Nothing new, Luger accidental death

Roadkill · 02-05-2004, 09:48 AM

I was up close and personal with several "accidents" in Vietnam, first was on a mine clearing operation, a grunt security squad was on our left flank, one was carrying his rifle like a squirrel hunter, it went off and hit the searchlight between the tank commander and me. Second time a M79 dude slipped in the mud climbing up on a rice paddy dike, it went off and hit a SSG in the hip, didn't explode but broke the guy's leg. Third time we set up in the dark in the woods, heard movement, one of McNamara's 100,000 threw a grendae, it hit a bamboo thicket and bounced back, two wounded. Add the slam fires, grenades pulled off LBE, etc. You could get hurt.

rk

02-05-2004, 09:48 AM	#5
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,634 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	I was up close and personal with several "accidents" in Vietnam, first was on a mine clearing operation, a grunt security squad was on our left flank, one was carrying his rifle like a squirrel hunter, it went off and hit the searchlight between the tank commander and me. Second time a M79 dude slipped in the mud climbing up on a rice paddy dike, it went off and hit a SSG in the hip, didn't explode but broke the guy's leg. Third time we set up in the dark in the woods, heard movement, one of McNamara's 100,000 threw a grendae, it hit a bamboo thicket and bounced back, two wounded. Add the slam fires, grenades pulled off LBE, etc. You could get hurt. rk