Vietnam war story

Liberator · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:11 am **Posts:** 837

From a person who was there --

"One of our Pink Teams (OH-6 low and AH-1G high) was scouting near O Rang. The low bird radioed the AH-1G Snake and said that he needed to break off because he was running out of fuel. The high bird said that wasn't possible - they'd only been flying about an hour and his fuel gauge must be screwed up. They kept flying the mission until the OH-6 flamed out and crashed.

Moral of the story? ------- When we recovered the Loach we found a 5' Montagnard arrow sticking out of the belly - it got him in the fuel tank."

Sometimes even the most primitive weapon cant destroy a modern war machine.

Phil

gemmer · **Joined:** Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:54 am **Posts:** 312

Reminds me of the bit in an F Troop episode. "IT IS BALLOOOOOON!!!!!"

We had a gunner who almost shot down a Loach when it crossed into his line of fire on a flame drop. The Loach driver didn't know the the gunner was going to fire up the flame with tracers to set it off.

Duane

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:14 pm

Liberator wrote:

From a person who was there --

"One of our Pink Teams (OH-6 low and AH-1G high) was scouting near O Rang. The low bird radioed the AH-1G Snake and said that he needed to break off because he was running out of fuel. The high bird said that wasn't possible - they'd only been flying about an hour and his fuel gauge must be screwed up. They kept flying the mission until the OH-6 flamed out and crashed.

Moral of the story? ------- When we recovered the Loach we found a 5' Montagnard arrow sticking out of the belly - it got him in the fuel tank."

Sometimes even the most primitive weapon cant destroy a modern war machine.

Phil

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