They may find me dead in a ditch somewhere. But by Gawd, there'll be a pile of empty brass around me....
--usually seen attributed to Trooper M. Padgett....
Yep I have seen places ike that and pics of places that stand out as alamo last stands or record......The 051 bunker at Tan Son Nhut Air Base .
Security team there was abandoned as they were thought to have been captured / killed in initial stages of the fight there when the base was overrun.
That bunker was trashed by B40’s PG 2 etc and so many chinks in the concrete bunkers surface it looked like the moon. Those guys had 3 or 4 M-60’s , personal GAU5/A’s XM177’s etc and had the mini gun cans (20mm) of ammo stashed inside. lots of it . The 1:10 ratio of tracer kind in beau coup pucker factor belts. They melted a few barrels and used cases of 40mm fired in old M148’s but those guys took on a hell of a stand against all odds . they found em in day light looking like meerkats in shock.
Last place I saw a floor covered with brass was Kuwait airport when we got jumped by stragglers that tried to take out a team from Campbell I was assigned too (ODA591 ?)...... the then new M249’s w/ 200 hundred round boxes were smoking as we had to shoot and scoot out of a tunnel with no side egress or cover. A poor boy peel of the nth degree as they tried to throw grenades down the long tunnel at us but the wimps never got close with em. LOT’s of brass that few minutes !
Pucker factor was high for me.....the girl scouts I was with were happy as pigs in mud. Go figure.......:o)