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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 854657" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>In my first true venture into close order combat, I lost my partner to a 7.62x39 round (actually four of them). They were fired right thru a 3/4" thick floor in a bunker used as a listening post (LP) from about five feet away. I was on the roof, and they must not have known I was up there. I had a bag of grenades and an M16 rifle. The rifle was virtually useless, and I simply rolled about six or eight grenades off the roof top. Then sprayed about three mags into the pitch black darkness. When Light finally came I came down off the roof to find him D.O.A., and four bodies laying to the right. One was still breathing, and the First Sargent was so mad that he gave him a sedative with 230 grain hardball. That's what is known as a clean humane kill in the combat zone. I put two layers of clay filled sandbags on the floor plus stacked 5.56 and 7.62x51. Sure enough they showed up at about one in the morning again. The M60 was useless as they were too close, so I sprayed a full mag that triggered a series of four duce illumination rounds. Then shot five with an M16. They were very dead by five in the morning. Humane? Well they were not shooting at me anymore! Next night I was back on the roof, but with an additional M60. Three grenades, and half a belt brought dead silence in about one minute. The guy below froze while the third guy was asleep. One had a sucking chest wound, and I listened to him for about three or four minutes out there someplace. The other four got away. We tracked the blood trails at about six in the morning. Found two about a hundred yards out. Two more about three hundred yards. All had bad chest hits. One round busted thru an ammo vest, and still didn't do it's humane kill (sic). There is no such thing 50% of the time, and it's almost amusing that anyone would think so. Top had the LP blown up at the end of the week so no other hapless fool would ever be stuck out there again. That was humane!! What you read here is a glossed over account of seven days of my life in February 1968, and there's not much to call it humane.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 854657, member: 25383"] In my first true venture into close order combat, I lost my partner to a 7.62x39 round (actually four of them). They were fired right thru a 3/4" thick floor in a bunker used as a listening post (LP) from about five feet away. I was on the roof, and they must not have known I was up there. I had a bag of grenades and an M16 rifle. The rifle was virtually useless, and I simply rolled about six or eight grenades off the roof top. Then sprayed about three mags into the pitch black darkness. When Light finally came I came down off the roof to find him D.O.A., and four bodies laying to the right. One was still breathing, and the First Sargent was so mad that he gave him a sedative with 230 grain hardball. That's what is known as a clean humane kill in the combat zone. I put two layers of clay filled sandbags on the floor plus stacked 5.56 and 7.62x51. Sure enough they showed up at about one in the morning again. The M60 was useless as they were too close, so I sprayed a full mag that triggered a series of four duce illumination rounds. Then shot five with an M16. They were very dead by five in the morning. Humane? Well they were not shooting at me anymore! Next night I was back on the roof, but with an additional M60. Three grenades, and half a belt brought dead silence in about one minute. The guy below froze while the third guy was asleep. One had a sucking chest wound, and I listened to him for about three or four minutes out there someplace. The other four got away. We tracked the blood trails at about six in the morning. Found two about a hundred yards out. Two more about three hundred yards. All had bad chest hits. One round busted thru an ammo vest, and still didn't do it's humane kill (sic). There is no such thing 50% of the time, and it's almost amusing that anyone would think so. Top had the LP blown up at the end of the week so no other hapless fool would ever be stuck out there again. That was humane!! What you read here is a glossed over account of seven days of my life in February 1968, and there's not much to call it humane. gary [/QUOTE]
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