A very good friend of mine was a door gunner in 69. Wanna hear some stories?
>>29897594
greentext them nigger. did he hit anyone in the middle of running while the chopper was flying? make any vehicles explode?
>>29897594
How did he shoot women and children?
How can you kill women and children?
>>29897604
He did mention dropping makeshift barrel bombs
>>29897611
Easy!
>>29897631
You just don't lead them as much?
>>29897594
excuse our autism.
yes, we would like to hear them.
please, greentext these stories for us, anon.
Pic related is who he served with. >Was at one of the furtherest north bases
>dropping off recon in cambodia and loas was common
>secluded enough that he had no knowledge of the moon landing till his tour ended
>flying into a hot LZ
>Armed Forces Radio blastin 60s jams
>he was 'boopin' and dislodged his ammo container
>watched 1000+ rounds fall into the jungle
>entered a hot LZ with just a .45
>didnt die
>got chewed out pretty bad for that one
>>29897728
shitttttttttttttttttttttttttttt did he shoot his 45? they didnt give m16s to the gunners or just have a couple spare in a rack on the chopper for the pilots during emergencies???
Im just gonna call him 'Larry'
>dropping off green troops
>the mood isnt too bad/pretty relaxed
>guys are joking and laughing
>experienced sgt asks larry what the LZ is like
>larry doesnt lie, says its a pretty hot
>watched as the facesand spirits of those young men drop as they heard the news
>the reality that most of them would be hits larry
>"I felt so bad had to pull my visor down I started crying."
>>29897780
Why did that guy in the pick saw the stock off his carbine? Or is it just a folded stock?
>>29897780
What a fag
This story, to my knowledge, is true
>doing resupply and reenforcements
>green pilot
>dropping squad off in rice paddy
>come under heavy heavy fire
>pilot freaking out that the troops need to get out
>they file out
>as they try to move forward the pilot lifts too fast too sharply to get out of there
>mows down the entire group
>"The blades hit em and broke them apart in big chunks"
>they landed again and larry and the other gunner collected the pieces
And loaded them back into the bird
>>29897805
>carbine
That's an M14, and it appears it is sawed off. Don't know why he did it.
>>29897842
shiet.
>>29897805
That's an M14 bruh
>>29897842
jesus christ.
not trying to be a dick but I do have to wonder what the fuck kind of angle was going on if him lifting shredded the infantry.
i mean, the rear blade sure, but the main rotor? I dunno.
>>29897844
he made a motherfucking nam obrez
>>29897842
>helicopter being shot at
>helicopter accidentally kills dozens of people simultaneously
>enemy magically disappears so that helicopter can land and spend time collecting the dead
>helicopter flies away without any further incident, end of story
Complete
Fucking
Bullshit
I said before that he was involved in some spoopy shit
>"special forces or someone else"
>come back with two dudes theyre "questioning"
>tie both men up
>take them in helicopter
>go up 10ft, throw one out, land, pick him up
>go up 20ft, throw him out, land, pick him up
>go up 30ft, and so on
>dropped the guy til he died from internal bleeding
>second guy watched the whole time
>>29897842
What happened to the Pilot? Did he eat a bullet after that?
>>29897867
The VC probably died laughing after that.
> Be viet cong, fighting great peoples fight for country and communism.
> be hidden in jungle firing at yankee invaders.
> watch as helo chops up a whole squad.
> stop firing cause your to busy laughing.
> decide that yankee pilots is O K.
> he can live to keep killing GIs.
The base he was stationed at sounded shitty too
>have nothing to do
>vietnamese guy whos a barber
>one guy gets a shit cut from the guy
>shoots the dude in the face
>larry said the guys body laid out near the tarmac for days till someone scooped it up with a front loader
>>29897644
kek
>>29897842
I really hope that is fake.
>>29897897
No larry said he was never cleared for flying after that. Dont know what happened after
>>29897842
Today on Things That Never Happened
>>29898164
Today on things the goverment would never admit happened.
Fixed that for ya.
my buddies dad was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, he's told me more than a few stories of some crazy shit he saw.
>be flying several missions dropping off several SF squads over the border in Cambodia
>stuff that wasn't technically kosher
>gets to know them
>starts to hand out with them some
>turns out SF guys are bat shit fucking nuts
>observes them at their table in the officers club
>passing around their own vomit
>would play that knife finger game where you stab in between you open hand with combat knifes
>and worse things that he wouldn't go into detail about
>have some douche bag officer in transit from point
a to point b
>some sort of verbal discrepancy
>decides to fuck with him
>does some sort of flying maneuver involving climbing high altitude until the helicopter stalls
>comes screaming back down to earth and levels out after a good while
>officer shits his pants (don't remember if he mental physically or metaphorically)
>is warrant officer so no fucks given
>nice quiet ride the rest of the way
>picking up wounded for med evac
>remembers seeing someones fingers all melted together
>carried chi-com spike folder AK and a sawn off single shot grenade launcher, as well as a .38 snubby for taking his own life if it came to that
>would shoot the grenade launcher a monkeys and giant lizards
>>29898358
>one time got the sting urge to fold out his "chicken plate" which was some sort of shield for bullets
>shortly after that "bink"
>ak bullet hits the plate
>showed me the bullet
>would shoot at giant hogs
>giant fucking hogs
>south Vietnamese would retrieve them
>just the hindquarter was enough to feed everyone of the the Army guys with him
>vietnamese would chop it down so fast
>was on a patrol once
>he was the last helicopter
>call sign snoopy 1 2 and 3
>hes snoopy 3
>hes buddy was snoopy 2
>best friend gets shot down
>has his name from the memorial sketched on a piece of paper with pencil in a frame
>>29898380
>would sometimes be flying and see US forces burning captured marijuana and opium poppy fields that the VC grew
>would fly through it on purpose to try to get fucked up
>lots of drinking a good time
>also told me about a swedish k he shot all the time over there
>said you could get anything you wanted in the way of women guns or dope if that was your thing
>has a silver star and distinguished flying cross
>>29897842
I've heard similar stories before. Nasty way to go.
>>29898390
>>would sometimes be flying and see US forces burning captured marijuana and opium poppy fields that the VC grew
>>would fly through it on purpose to try to get fucked up
the absolute madman
Story from one of my dads good freind, tanker in vietnam.
>be a welder and make decent cash
>oh shit got drafted
>train in bootcamp with m14, go to war with m16
>areyoufuckingkiddingme
>tanker anyway so whatever
>after being in the shit for weeks one day there is a russle in the bushes
>sombody gives the go ahead to light em' up
>after 15 sec one sided fire fight a loose farming elephant is found dead in the elephant grass
>Whoopsy daisies
>village asks small price for elephant and invites tanker crew to elephant feast.
It sounded far fetched to me but he is an honorable sane man so i believe him
>>29898637
Another story from tankervet. He told me this when i was a edgy teenager who smoked the devils lettuce.
>bored with tanker crew
>buddy asks if tankerbro wanna smoke the ganja for the first time
>sure why not
>buddy says "lets hotbox the tank bro"
>rest of the crew is chilling outside of the tank
>smoke first j in the tank with the hatch closed, dont feel shit yet
>smoke second j, look at the control panel and the lights are trippy, feel the effects as they come on stronger, end up both passing out inside locked down tank
>wake up hour later to screaming and beating at the hatch
>rest of the crew was locked out of tank and coulda gotten fucked up had shtf.
"And that, anon, is why i never smoked grass again"
I didnt read to much into it but it was a good story
He also said they would rather brush their teeth in beer than local water sources. Years after service he was working odd jobs for people and one person asked to may him in guns instead of cash. One of them was a military m14 with the fire selector taken out, but im pretty sure those are still illegal. It has the hole where you could see where the fire selector used to be. I love that baby, he said hes going to will it to me. M14 is my favorite rifu
>>29897594
Older guy I work with was a door gunner on a Chinnok, taxiing troops and even the USO girls around. They would take the crews flak vests to sit on since his pilot liked to go balls out fast. He would also take potshots with his 50 when they dropped people off, only time he thought he killed someone was when he shot a while box into one muzzle flash "just to be sure he got the little rice fucker", no one shot back
>>29897842
well that was a waste of dudes
>>29898358
>Fires thumper at monkeys and lizards.
Fucking. Lost it.
>>29898832
Bit like Vietnam really.
>>29897844
Likely for tunnels. Although real fucking NATO in a tunnel...
Eeeeeeeeeeeee
>>29898917
It sounds fucking awesome
>>29897594
And what's the name of this ladyfriend of yours?
>>29897844
Not everyone feels the need to be tactical operator bud.
That shit will be as easy to carry and effective as before.
>>29897867
He said he lifted "too fast and too SHARPLY" means the copter was turning as he was going up, probably got those guys with the tail rotor, numb nuts
>>29897926
Such bullshit.
Tell us stories pls
>>29897842
>This story, to my knowledge, is true
you should stop lying
>pilot rushing to get out of lz
>stopped to pickup the chunks
why don't you pickup your chunks?
>>29899149
How do you drop bombs out of a bus?
>>29897644
HAHAHAHHAHA
AIN'T WAR HELL?
One I've heard of and isn't too far fetched
>be a tanker inna Vietnam
>M60s doing M60 things
>uh-oh, looks like Charlie has confused lead tank with a jungle gym
>"tank 2, this is tank 1 requesting a back scratch, over"
>tank 2 proceeds to load canister shot and lines up tank 1 in its sights
>hamburger.jpg
>>29901178
Didnt know you were there.
>>29901677
I rememver watching a documentry that was so brutal whenever they interviewed the tanker vets.
>formation of APCs rolling through field
>charlie pops up and starts shooting
>gunners up top start returning fire
>rpg fired at first tank
>hits the gunner instead
>other gunner from another tank recalls getting struck by the guy torso flying past him
>realized later he had a huge chunk of the other guys skin stuck to his face the rest of the battle.
>>29901982
>wearing your friends skin into battle isn't normal, but on "it ain't me" it is
>>29897842
>pilot lifts up
>blades magically go down and cut people up when he's supposed to be going up
>implying he wouldn't have crashed if he got the blades down low enough to come near anyone
Fake as fuck.
>>29897594
>anyone who runs is a vc. anyone who stands still is a well-disciplined vc
>>29901677
If they were using M60s in Vietnam it's a fake story.
>>29902057
Damn everyone here is an experienced combat pilot.
You do know that hueys blades can touch the ground, thats why you never approach the front of it, but the side. Like most conventional helicopters. The ones Ive worked with for firefighting are the oposite, if you try approaching from thw side youll get killed because the blades can get as low at 2 feet off the gound.
>tfw Ive been doing this for years, argue with me cunt
>>29897924
Maybe the VC thought that was fucked up and also they had better shit to do.
>>29902163
Tell me how it's blades are touching the ground when it's making a landing to drop off troops at a hot LZ or how it's somehow going to be taking off again after the tail rotor mowing through multiple people and their gear.
I want to hear it.
>>29901997
Kek
>>29902199
Okay ill explain it like this
Helo lands
Troops get out
Helo either lifts forward way to fast, or banks to hard too the side while reaching full power
We have a few Nightstalker pilots at our station and theyve used the blades to make theyre own LZs before.
Please dont assume freak shit cant happen or that war is normal enough that something like this would be impossible.
>>29902273
>Helo either lifts forward way to fast, or banks to hard too the side while reaching full power
It's going to be touching the ground then and the gear alone is going to fuck up the rotors like you wouldn't believe, even for light infantry like in nam.
>We have a few Nightstalker pilots at our station and theyve used the blades to make theyre own LZs before.
I'm sure.
>theyre
Please don't assume everyone is as retarded as you.
>>29902302
>its going to be touching the ground then
You just know everything dont ya
Once you graduate highschool and get to see the real world you might understand
Till then maybe you can read about how many ex mil guys work for the Forrest Service.
>>29897807
That edge.
>>29897842
Upon increasing rotation speed and torque the blades bend up when they pull the weight of the helicopter upwards. The angle required to do what you say happened would have had to be extreme. Not only that, but the squad that dismounted would have had to ignore SOP and file out of the bird and then straight in front of it for that to occur instead of creating a perimeter. Likelihood of bullshit -99%
>>29897889
>"special forces or someone else"
CIA?
>>29899164
I would argue that it would be not as stable to aim since you can't press a stock up against your shoulder? Ever shoot a Mare's leg? They're awkward as fuck. Now, if you're just blasting shots off in the direction of the enemy, or shooting people in tunnels, it's fine then.
>>29899009
Hadn't considered tunnels, that makes sense though.
>>29902350
>taking off immediately after people exit the helo
>implying you have anywhere near enough clearance to tilt forward right away to mow them down
You're not fooling anyone.
>>29897609
Inb4 just don't lead em as much.
>>29898702
>One of them was a military m14 with the fire selector taken out, but im pretty sure those are still illegal. It has the hole where you could see where the fire selector used to be. I love that baby, he said hes going to will it to me. M14 is my favorite rifu
Surplus stocks with the gap meant for the fire control switch are incredibly common on M1As.
>>29897889
>>second guy watched the whole time
I bet he gave it up.
My dad had this family friend. He as well as his brother were vets. This dude was a bit scummy and a total dick but he was kinda cool and fun to talk to cause he was in Vietnam and had a bunch of fascinating He came to Christmas dinner with us once and only once. Here's how it went:
>be at Christmas dinner
>be sitting around with family and namanon
>namanon starts discussing the war
>nothing too vulgar
>saw some shit, did some things
>mostly routine stuff
>tells us about coming home after and opening a toy store in shitsville south jersey
>tells us about brothers PTSD (or shellshock for you mellenials) from being in the jungle too long
>hear about how he was some kind of FOP strategist and would crawl around and try to spot ambush points ahead of his guys encampments
>once he was home would go around neighborhood at night in full fatigues and camo face paint with a crossbow and hunt feral cats
>was so good the neighbors commended him somehow with the local police for keeping rabid animals away from houses, pets and kids
>even thwarted a would be robbery when out on the hunt
At this point I ask if him or his brother ever got any "confirmed kills" (sarcastically of course. He had a sick sense of humor)
>table goes quiet and everyone stares at him
>no...but I did shoot a nigger once
>everyone at table's mouth goes agape
>proceeds to say how he shot some dude he caught trying to break into the store (on a seperate occasion. It happened a few times)
>in the end guy got away and wasn't caught but namanon swears he put a slug through the guys back
Needless to say he was never invited to Christmas dinner again.
>>29897842
Too bad your knowledge is little and your friend is stolen valor.
>>29897842
helicopter blades just can't hit shit like 200 lbs men and not break apart and disintegrate you fucking faggot
>>29897889
HE DIDNT FLY SO GOOD!
>>29906620
Sounds like my grandpa lol
>>29904275
could be a pilot or a tanker.
would be a great gun for cbq shit, full retard real fuckin nato pistol.
funny story from family friend, redshirt on carrier in the 80s.
>get care packages, lots of them
>not all of the contents is enjoyable or maybe its spoiled by the time it gets there
>take bigass crate
>load the shitty stuff in it
>take shitty piece of metal from the bosun
>use it to make a catapult bar and hook it to the crate
>catapult back
>launch crate of shit off the carrier
>kek heartily
they apparently did this every few weeks when they had a bunch of garbage and a lull in flights
>>29897594
I have a few vietnam stories from the guys j shooting sporting clays with (met them at work. I'm 24 they are 60s and 70s)
>Talk guns with one guy as we are walking between shooting stations
>"Yeah I've got a full auto ak"
>wtf this is NY
>how'd you get that?
>I was a medic in Vietnam in '71
>went to work on a guy shot in the shoulder
>16 yr old kid comes running out of the smoke
>raises his weapon
>shot him 3 times with my .45
>bandaged the guy up and took his ak
>thing was factory new and oiled
>sent it home piece by piece to my dad
>>29906992
couldn't he have just claimed it as a war trophy, have some officer sign off on it and be good?
pretty sure you could do that in nam
>>29906992
>be couple thousand feet up in huey
>AA takes out engine
>pilot manages to get it down on the ground (autorotation, as you fall the air causes the blades to spin and when you get close to the ground you pull up on the collective and juice some lift out of the momentum of the rotors)
>Fucked up his back and legs in the crash
>I send that pilot a Christmas card every year to thank him for saving my life
>the bastard keeps living and I have to keep buying him cards
He shoots a .410 in the sporting clays competitions because he got shot in the shoulder and 12 ga is too painful.
>>29907008
Not sure. It was late war so maybe not idk. That's just what he told me
>>29907045
Another guy I shoot with told me some stories
>grew up in the Rockies. Low oxygen because altitude
>goes to basic before shipping to Nam
>the juicy oxygen rich air is great
>on 5 mile runs would light up a cigarette on the last mile to fuck with other boots
>"that shit only lasted a few weeks until I became acclimated to sea level"
Another
>posted to air force base in US
>squadron doesn't use entire allotment of avgas
>ordered to build 12x12x6 hole.
>pour avgas into hole and burn it so that they don't get allotted less fuel the next month
>>29898401
I would fly with him, over a lot of my pilots.
Just sayin.
>>29907094
Another
>in Nam
>m16 jams in his first firefight
>fuck this shit
>carries 870 rest of his tour
>"I saw vc zipped with 223 and they kept running ay us because they were always hopped up on drugs. But 00 buck always put them down"
This was at a hunting camp after several rounds of whiskey
>>29901566
You Duke's of hazard that fucker and blow the shit out of some gooks.
>>29907124
>>29906992
This sounds like bubba tier gun shop bs. I think these old guys are having fun with you because you believe every word they say
>>29897609
Better them than me.
>>29906708
He had no reason to lie. And hes was the real deal. Your life is less since you never knew him.
Dad worked with some guys who served with NZ during the Korean war, apparently one guy spent god knows how long dropping round after round of 105mm on wave after wave of charging Chinese.
I think he killed himself a while back.
>>29906620
why, is your family full of nigger lovers?
>>29904199
>Likelihood of bullshit -99%
Not taking into consideration the average IQ of low numbers in the draft scheme and your hypothesis makes sense but the US didn't send it's best and brightest. Learn about how local draft boards used the draft to get rid of it's most undesirables. God what a chapter in American history and such a deep perspective into the hive mind of small communities.
Not saying the story is legit but never underestimate the amount of stupid we had beating the bush in Vietnam.
>>29897889
>>29898204
The government also wouldn't "admit" the existence of unicorns.
That doesn't make the story any less fucking stupid.
>>29906620
>once he was home would go around neighborhood at night in full fatigues and camo face paint with a crossbow and hunt feral cats
Used to have a drinking buddy who spent to much time in the jungle. Cool guy for an old fuck.When he came back home he would disappear into the undevelopded land around his town for days. Living off of rabbits and squirrels until his brother went looking for him.
Guy was a true mantel and got stuck crawling through tunnels. I never served or saw combat but I have seen some shit in my life and his stories about hand to hand with those little gooks is fucking wild. He always bitched about how hard their little bodies were to hit with a kill shot unless you popped them in the head.
>>29906715
The fuck they can't.
>>29907008
I think they stopped allowing souvenirs back during the Korea war.
>>29901982
i know that documentary! it also had the medic who was a pacifist take up arms in his apc and start lighting fuckers up on the mg
>>29907607
Anon didn't deserve this kind of quality bait pic. Have to work harder than that to troll /k/, as easy as it is to do.
>>29909431
The amount of buried friendly fire causalities back then is astounding. I've heard shit from oldtimers about some true Darwin awards they witnessed with their own eyes.
>>29899149
That bus seems like something sparky would create.
>>29897594
One of our physics teachers was a Karabakh vet. He regularly took us out for hikes but told us only one story about the war so here goes:
>Be inna first Nagorno-Karabakh war
>Stumble upon Azeri positions
>get spotted, come under fire
>Tell the youngster to
radio in coordinates for arty and try to gtfo,
>The guy is almost crying, tells there is "No answer on the radio"
>Tell him to try again...
>shells start hitting the Azeri positions,
>A huge explosion and the enemy fire stops
> gtfo out of there and get back safely
>unit commander gets in a huge argument with the arty guys about not confirming the message was received and just shelling away
>the arty commander guy tells him to fuck off cause they ran out of shells a day ago and the supplies were not expected to arrive for 2-3 days
The funny part is that their radio guy got the wrong frequency and the arty didn't even receive the message. Also it later turned out that theirs was the only arty unit in range of the radio call, so there was no way anyone got the coordinates.
>mfw kebabs shelled their own positions
>>29901982
What documentary?
>>29909511
Yeah! And there was also a guy who talked about torturing a woman with a car battery.
>>29909897
I dont remember the name it was years ago, it had some heavy fucking shit in it though.
>>29906620
>Needless to say he was never invited to Christmas dinner again.
why is family a bunch of nigger loving queers
>>29901997
The fuck you talkin' 'bout, retard?
