[Jim_Curtis]

If the other boat was close enogh for the dog to land on it then it was close enough to be within shouting range at best.

Yes. That other boat was right next to a boat that got mined ( Kerry's ). It wouldn't just keep moseying down the river when another boat was in distress. They were looking around frantically, that boat with the catapulted dog would be right there.

[randog]

They were looking around frantically, that boat with the catapulted dog would be right there.

Don't buy it. Everyone knows that all Vietnam servicemen grooved to Jimi Hendrix and The Doors and smoked mind-boggling quantities Mekong Mind-F*** (don't you watch the movies?). They'd never hear each other above the racket.

</sarcasm>