Dirty Tricks

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Thought I'd toss this one in and see what comes up!

My demo instructor encouraged his classes to develop as many different ways to use "that stuff that goes boom"...

Here is one for an ambush that he taught us.

The patrol sets up in a standard "L" formation, at the far end of the killing ground, a marker (c-ration can, lighter etc) is left on a branch. Instead of emplacing Claymores along the line, they are emplaced in the overhead cover, tied to branches and so on. They are aimed so as to fire straight down and of course camouflaged.

Takes advantage of the human nature of not looking up when walking, something to distract the eye for a moment...

Another trick was to lay out a triple row of concertina wire...to include empty cans with a couple of pebbles in them...the trick was that the wire was rigged at either end pull/release detonators hooked to fougas barrels. Hold the wire to cut it, and when the tension was taken off the wire....

One last trick...anyone every take the time to look at photos of M-48 tanks in Vietnam? If you look closely you will see two brackets welded in front of the sprockets and another two welded near the tow pintles on the bow of the tank. The tankers would mount Claymores on these brackets and then run the wires into the driver's hatch. The NVA/VC would almost always attempt to board a tank because of the habit of the TCs riding with their hatch open...as the enemy approaches the tank, the driver would use the clacker...