Guess the rain has passed here for now. Sun is out and the roads are dry. I think that means I may need to go for a little putt around town.

 

We are getting rain but nothing like what is going on around us.

 

I think you should check ice cream inventories.

 

Good idea....I may do a quick drive-by of a few local DQ's

 

I kind of skipped across that, might do more later, could have been condensed down by more than half and still had all the pertinent information. Yes, the other side had green tracers, also white and red. I saw more red than green. Rifle fire often burned out before 2000', but I saw green one night from a long way off to the side go by us at 2000' and continue on up a few seconds, must have traveled a couple miles still visible. That was a big one, possibly 37mm, they had a few of those. A Huey wouldn't handle many of those.

I wondered if this would refer to the Cambodian invasion in the spring/summer of 1968 but didn't hear any reference to that. Officially we didn't put troops in Cambodia until 1970, but in 1968 the 240th provided air support, and Army APCs and Navy gunboats along with a lot of Army troops hit NVA in Cambodia for a few days. The 240th Assault Helicopter Company lost a gunship in Cambodia (lost, as in it wasn't there when a recovery team went in to retrieve it, the crew had to run for it with NVA closing in). The 240th was a company that was formed up in Texas the same time and place as mine, so I knew several guys in it, and running across a few of them later, got the same story from all of them. Sounds like a movie. I wonder how many actions and events in that war will be lost to history when the guys involved are all gone. Probably the same for all wars.

 

Doc, what color tracers did you see the most?

 

 

Nice ******, Juan El!

 

Food **** anyone?

 

Oh what the hell, one more...........................


We all have one of these in our kitchen, right?