Posted on 07/18/2021 10:03:50 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Trying to recall the name of the plastic tubes of freshwater we occasionally received while in the bush.
We had a very good C.O. who tried to get us a hot meal when possible. With the food, we received plastic tubes of water that were DROPPED on or near to our location. IIRC They were about 8 inches in diameter and maybe 5 feet long? Usually orange or yellow, sometimes O.D. green and white?
My son, USMC Infantry 3x sandbox, was unfamiliar with them.
Yup remember those days. When we could get hands on fresh hen laid eggs we could boil about a dozen or so eggs in a steel pot helmet by using a stick or slightly more of C-4 also. We used C-4 for a lot of things I'm sure the Pentagon didn't know or approve off or was designed for either. That and TnT for blowing ant hills the size of cars and Det cord for clothes lines and for cutting down trees on occasion.
Our C-rations came in card board boxes all the time, that is when we got them.
—”that is when we got them”
We always seemed to have plenty of C’s... never enough of the LRRP rats!! A special treat!
I always thought the 11th ACR had among the best of unit insignias!
And I’m not into horses?
But at least our unit usually got at least 1 hot meal a day when in base camp, albeit powdered eggs and canned potatoes but it was hot and some kind of liquid that passed for coffee. I didn't get to spend a lot of time in camp though being a FO. The 11th ACR was a kick ass unit, its reputation almost always preceded it. We were stationed in the Iron Triangle usually around Tay Ninh, Cu Chi and the Nui Bah Dinh mountain straddling the Ho Chi Minh trail for a year and a half. Col Hal Moore's AO in the movie "We Were Soldiers" fame. It never cooled down in intensity.
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