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Originally Posted by Mike
We always had operations out trying to catch Charlie infiltrating stuff across the border.
I got to know the AO pretty well as we always had to commo guys on the team and I could go on all the missions I wanted.
Anyways-sometimes we'd see explosions in the air along the border. These were the AF dropping drumsof CS crystals and them exploding above ground dusting the area.
It was thick canopy and vegitation, so don't know how effective that was.
Usually nearby was an unexploded drum of CS that had busted open and left a carpet of the crystals that activated when crunched.
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We walked into more than one "forgotten" CS drop..
We did likewise, but threw in NP to burn a hole in the canopy.
Some pics of a "bombing run" NNE of Nui Ba Dinh, along the Cam border. We had them rigged under a Chinook and lit them with smoke grenades.
Not sure how effective it was. If we hit a good trail, they would just move to the left or right 1K the next night.