Any freak accident war stories u heard, do tell...?

Question

I'm in the mood for one, really am so (always am, really)

Too hard to choose!!! Kinda like every other one more than number one, cus that's not an accident that's a coinkidink

Answer 1

Well I don't have my own war stories, but I find it strange that I know someone who was part of the group that found Sadam. I'm also related to someone who was standing next to a colleague that blew up.

Answer 2

During the 60s, my dad was in a half track for a mortar team in Germany. The half track and this tank were at an intersection and the tank was swiveling it's cannon, which went over the half track's back part. This caused the guys in the back to dive to the floor (my dad was pulled down by the sergeant), but the driver of the half track was crushed when the cannon pinned him to the steering wheel.

Also during his time in the service he had cut out this article stating that during one exercise the artillery got the wrong directions and bombed their own tent city killing something like 11 guys.

One of my dad's friends was in the navy loading supplies in the cargo hold with a buddy on the top deck. This crane would drop the supplies through a large hole in the deck. During the loading, my dad's friend looked back at his buddy that wasn't there. The buddy fell through the hole several stories to his death.

My former uncle-in-law was doing parachute training for an airborne ranger. The guy was very small and so he jumps out of the plane and he is unable to pull the chute, because he was so small/light till he was at minimum altitude (aka the last second). The only thing that was happening was he was twisting in the air while the guy on the ground was screaming, "pull the chute!"

Answer 3

A long time ago in an Asian republic far, far away a weapons load crew was setting up to do functional checks on a SUU-23 gun pod on the centerline station of an F-4D. Stop me if you've heard this one. The guys zip around setting up electrical power, opening up access panels, and getting out tools and equipment.

They've done this a thousand times so who needs checklists and communications headsets, right? The jammer driver shoves a screwdriver in the nose landing gear uplock switch so the airplane will enable firing voltage to the gun. Power is applied. The two man turns power on in the jet. Ground Jettison Enabled so the weapons system will work like the jet's in flight. Master arm on.

The crew chief is just now ducking under the wing heading for the starboard side of the gun pod with the voltmeter. The other guys are ambling around the jet attending to various tasks. The Weapons Expediter is sitting in his truck right in front of the Hardened Aircraft Shelter. Number two selects up the gun and squeezes the trigger to the second detent as the crew chief realizes the drive motor and firing leads are still connected and he sees the flywheel spinning up...

Answer 4

Here is a story my dad told me during his tour in Vietnam. One peculiar experience he describes was during the day when aircrafts were departing and arriving at the base. One F-100 was accelerating down the runway for take-off when suddenly, for not reason, it exploded into flames. Then on a separate runway a RF-4C was landing when it suddenly blew its nose wheel and slid to a halt on the runway. Then on a third runway a C-172 spotter plane was departing at an angle so steep it stalled and crashed killing everyone inside. This all happened in just a few minutes.

Answer 5

I know a couple that happened durring the Vietnam War.

1. There was a group of 5 S.O.G (Studies and observations group) men who were on a snatch mission (go and grab some important looking NVA to get information out of them). Anyway, so they are sneaking around in the jungle and the leader of the group hears someone coming on the path. As he passes he jumps out at the guy to grab him but is supprised to see two NVA instead of one. In his panic he shoots one and grabs the other. Later, back at the base, they are trying to get information out of this guy who claims he knows nothing. Thinking that he is lieing theey keep pressing for info. After a while the frusterated NVA shouts out 'Why are you asking me this? Why didn't you take the General I was with instead?' After that the SOG member who grabbed him became known as the guy who shot the general to snatch the private.

2. Since the SOG members were not really supposed to be fighting in Laos at the time they had to get rid of anything that would suggest that they were American in case of capture. This meant that they got to choose their own weapons. So some of the SOG brought their own fun weapons with then (ex. bow and arrow, butcher knife, ect.) along with their guns into battle. So this story is about a SOG who brought an air horn with him. They were sneaking around the jungle when a group of NVA ambushed them. As the SOG reached for a grenade he hit the air horn instead and pressed it for a full minute. By the time he let go and looked up, all of the NVA had run away in fear of the loud sound, thus, saving the group from capture.

3. A group of SOG were patroling a section fo jungle when this vietnamese kid rode by on his bike. Upon seeing the SOG members he ditched his bike and ran for it. Since the NVA often hid secret messages on things like bikes and cars the group called in a helicopter to come and pick them up saying that they had captures a NVA bycicle. Thinking that this was a code word for a NVA General the base called back asking if they were sure it was a NVA bycicle. They assured them it was after many, what seemed to be stupid questions) and a heavily armed helicopter came to pick them up only to find that the bike was really a bike, and not a code name for general.

Ok, thats all I can remember right now, hope this satisfies your mood...