Did the troops in Vietnam ever encounter Hostile animals?(Ex:boars,snakes,sharks,and ect)
2007-01-11 14:04:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In 1968 while mounting guard duty at Bearcat Base, three of us where posted to a post on the berm wall. Sandbagged watch point with a bunker under the post. A buddy tossed his equipment into the bunker, a half hour later he went to the bunker to retrive something and encountered a Cobra with fully opened hood ready to strike. He shot the Cobra, and when the snake was dragged out of the bunker, and measured it was 11 and half feet long.
Dustyvet
HQ and HQ Battery
1ST BN 11th Artillery (ON TIME)
9TH Infantry Division ( The Old Releliables)
Bearcat Base
Dong Tam Base
Mekong River Delta
Vietnam 1967-68
2007-01-11 14:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by Jim Ignatowski 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snake and Scorpion bites were just as lethal as "Charlie". Not to mention the little life forms in the water.
2007-01-11 14:07:24 · answer #2 · answered by no name brand canned beans 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poisonous snakes,one was called the 2 step thats all you do when your bit. Wasps,Hornet ants ,mosquitoes,A small fish that no lying would go up urine stream inside Urethra,where it becomes imbedded,surgecaly removed.
2007-01-11 14:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by thresher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some probably did die from poisonous bites, but the worst would be the mental damage. Some guys would hear like orchastra's playing, even though it would be totally quite. Its quite sad though.
2007-01-11 14:06:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i had a hard assed leading chief who was the worst animal i ever ran into in my life....and he supposedly passed as human...if he had a bigger hole in the top of his head he coulda been the largest prick in the world...
2007-01-11 14:07:32 · answer #5 · answered by badjanssen 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
More than that!
2007-01-11 14:17:05 · answer #6 · answered by oldster 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋