Another DT from Vietnam...
A Special Forces camp located in the highlands was rather better dug in then normal; they had a nice thick shoulder-high wall, with a waist-deep ditch about 5 meters or so in front of the wall. The A-team was expecting a NVA attack and was busy reinforcing the wire/mines/booby traps when a new demo sergeant took a look at the ditch and came up with a ballsy trick. It seems that the outer wall of the ditch was about a half meter higher than the inner wall; carefully looking at the ange of the camp wall, the demo sergeant placed several Claymores into the wall, facing into the camp.
When the area between the ditch and the camp wall was filled with NVA, a ripple charge of Claymores right into their backsides!
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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