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Originally posted by The Reaper
Also depends on the terrain.
I have learned the hard way that even with NODs, it can be so dark that it is dangerous to move in certain terrain.
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LOL - I never saw him fall, but sounds like there's a story in there.
When I went through, we had a Nepalese LT on my RS Team. Wouldn't move at night. So I asked him why. "I'm standing here beside myself not understanding why you Americans insist on moving around at night. You must very still be at night."
Took two days, but he finally told me why: "There are tigers in the woods and they hunt at night."
Never was able to convince the TACs that there were tigers in the woods in NC.
I did watch one CO fall one night, on a pipe over a deep ditch. I was medicking and humping the radio. Point 1 was about 500 meters before the ditch. So he says call it in
"Code word"
"Roger Out"
Point 2 was just short of the ditch
"Call it in"
"Code word"
"Roger Out".
So he starts across the ditch and falls, straddling the pipe.
I called in the Point 1 code word again
"Code word 1"
"Roger...Huh?", and the CO heard me.
"Smart-assed medic. Help me up and find something in that bag for my testes." LOL
Funny thing was, he and I were doing it all in hand signals in the dark, but I understood every word. Hard not to laugh when you're whispering and using hand signals.