Friendly Fire
After reading the things that others have gone through in the 21st, I feel that I had a pretty easy time of it. The only time any of the choppers that I was in got hit was after we parked at NKP.
After RTB from a mission we had just taxied in and were about to unload the team into the step van.. As we were unloading the team one of them fired an M-79 round between Max Schiffman & myself & it lodged in the hoist control panel. Lucky that it didn't go far enough to arm, so it didn't explode.
When the M-79 went off, I turned around & the guy was leaning on the door M-60 that was pointed down at the floor & there was a lot aluminium honeycomb material flying around in the cabin. I thought that I had somehow unloaded the M-60 and left a round in the chamber & it went off.
After the team was loaded in the step van, one of the ground crew said, hey the bullet is in the side of the chopper. I went back in & he showed it to me. I said that's not a bullet it's an M-79 grenade you need to get away from it & call EOD, which they did. (Bill Crawford)
After RTB from a mission we had just taxied in and were about to unload the team into the step van.. As we were unloading the team one of them fired an M-79 round between Max Schiffman & myself & it lodged in the hoist control panel. Lucky that it didn't go far enough to arm, so it didn't explode.
When the M-79 went off, I turned around & the guy was leaning on the door M-60 that was pointed down at the floor & there was a lot aluminium honeycomb material flying around in the cabin. I thought that I had somehow unloaded the M-60 and left a round in the chamber & it went off.
After the team was loaded in the step van, one of the ground crew said, hey the bullet is in the side of the chopper. I went back in & he showed it to me. I said that's not a bullet it's an M-79 grenade you need to get away from it & call EOD, which they did. (Bill Crawford)
posted by Jim Moore at 1:03 PM
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