Semper Fi
Chainmail
whoa, thanks!
1. Do you always keep a pistol on your nightstand?
2. Do you refuse to travel without a firearm?
3. Do you sometimes find yourself checking to ensure you locked the house...a second time?
4. Do you get anxious in tight crowds, so much so that you avoid them?
5. Are you often startled by your wife just because she approached you from behind in the kitchen...laundry room etc?...
A plausible fear of being killed often results in the above.
I met a man at the local VA...a group I attend...72yrs old. Viet Nam vet.
Diagnosed with PTSD last year. He had been living with it since his return and finally decided to see if he could fix it.
Keep it up!
Collect the stories.
You may have a very successful book at the end.
Assuming the one killed by Dog Handler was enemy?
Thank you for your service and for sharing this.
Semper Fi
BFL!
Great piece of writing, recalling a chilling event. Thanks for your service and for posting Chainmail.
“The Dog Handler told me that when the dog silently alerted, he put his hand with the .45 on the dog’s head and fired at where the dog was looking.”
Pretty clever. I wonder if that is something he was taught, or just figured out then and there - being so dark and all.
Thank you for posting, and thank you for your service.
Please post some more if you can.
A few minutes later, he was there in the cold with the sentries, arms at the ready, trying to figure out what the noises they were hearing intermittently meant. It seemed as if North Korean infiltrators were slowly creeping through the brush on the nearby hills and ravines to get into position for an attack. Yet searchlights directed at the menacing noises revealed nothing amiss, with neither troops nor animals nor civilians visible.
Should they nevertheless put the base on alert? Or should they take no chances and pepper the hillsides with gunfire? Or should they at least send up flares to get a comprehensive view of the scene? Or were they letting their imaginations run away with them?
Fortunately, my friend the young lieutenant called for a veteran NCO, who quickly came to the gate. After a moment of listening, the NCO declared that they were in no danger. It was just a bone-chilling cold front slowly moving in from Siberia. The noises they were hearing was the vegetation freezing as the cold air hit. A few minutes later, the front arrived as if the door to a deep freeze had opened and theyy had been shoved inside.
Semper fi, good read. ;)
Very well written. Intense. Glad you made it home.
Good dog. Extra biscuit for you!