One Tough Girl Marine!

[leftywa]

Originally Posted by slugger6

a forward fire base near the Cambodian border.

Ok so I did not read it the first time.

[CPES]

That was pretty damn cool. My hats off to her.

By the way, the kid firing the gun? Totally fake if you ask me. He manipulated the slide waaaay too easily, like it was an airsoft gun or something. On top of that, the timing for the gunshot sound is off, and firing a gun inside would NOT have that echo effect.

Just my .02 though.

[pinpointshot]

Originally Posted by Krackels

What was she saying?

"attack the bag" which was what she was doing.

[slugger6]

Originally Posted by leftywa

Where were you? Were you in Quang Tri area? 3rd mardiv? I was a peacetime Marine. I served when there was nothing going on. You guys who did the heavy lifting had a much different experience.

That incident happened when I was assigned to the First Cav. I was based out of Phouc Vinh...and I do mean out of. As the OIC of the sniper team I deployed all over the AO. My brothers-in-law are Marines, however.

[bat1159man]

Originally Posted by slugger6

On my combat tours in Vietnam I was in the field most of the time. Once I managed to overnight at a forward fire base near the Cambodian border. I was enjoying the first "hot" shower I'd had in months when the damn VC started lobbing in mortars. Mixed among the HE were some CS rounds. I'm here to tell you, that gas chamber exercise is a walk in the park compared to being soaking wet when a cloud of CS engulfs you. I'm not ashamed to say I una**ed the showers in record time without the modesty of a towel. Oddly enough I wasn't hit. After that episode it became personal with the Viet Cong.

Hi ya Slugger, Jim has related how you were not always so lucky. 3 PHs speak volumes - Great Job, Brother!

[AZXD]

DAMN!
What else is there to say but,
DAMN!

[jtkratzer]

Tough cookie...I kept thinking of Pat Benatar...

[Talon]

Excellent.. It goes to show that you can work through it if you don't panic.. OC is painfull, the lighter complected you are the more intense the pain.. If you noticed she was not inhaling as the spray was deployed. When OC is inhaled (deeper the better) more often then not, the subject will drop immediately

Back in the day when OC was first being offered to the department I was with at the time, It was from Def-Tec and wasn't nearly the heat unit capacity of what is offered today.

The very first time I deployed OC in the field was on a 350 pound Samoan islander, he was lit up and running his mouth, at the point of spray he said to me "You C...-...ker brah, I'..." I sprayed on his inhale of I' as he moved forward . He hit the ground with a dead weight thud as if blue lightening had hit him, the only word he could utter was "Doctor,doctor.."

For me, the absolute worst OC I was hit with in training was a foam delivery base. It leaves the can as "silly string" upon contact the foam rapidly expands. When shot to the face (eyes) the bodies immediate natural reaction is to wipe away anything that contacts the eyes. With this stuff all you accomplish is rubbing it deeply into your eye sockets ..
Holy Sweet Mary I carried for three days a "S" shape pattern from my forehead to my mouth where that inital foam contact touched my flesh

'get some" marine!

Peace Talon

[gsh341]

Originally Posted by slugger6

On my combat tours in Vietnam I was in the field most of the time. Once I managed to overnight at a forward fire base near the Cambodian border. I was enjoying the first "hot" shower I'd had in months when the damn VC started lobbing in mortars. Mixed among the HE were some CS rounds. I'm here to tell you, that gas chamber exercise is a walk in the park compared to being soaking wet when a cloud of CS engulfs you. I'm not ashamed to say I una**ed the showers in record time without the modesty of a towel. Oddly enough I wasn't hit. After that episode it became personal with the Viet Cong.

You're right, real CS is a LOT worse than the gas chamber. While I never got hit with it during a war, I was gassed by some POS who mixed a CS cannister in with the smoke cannisters during training. The smoke was just for disorienting us during an exercise. No one had any masks and we just ran through the smoke. Well, I ran through a real thick "smoke cloud" and discovered the joys of a full on CS contact. I was running and breathing hard and sucked in a BIG lung-full of it. I was vomiting and snot seemed to be flying from my nose. Not to mention the sweat made it burn even worse and it was in every inch of my clothes. And I mean EVERY inch, including my underwear. I would've beat the crap out of the idiot that put the CS in with the smoke, but my buddies stopped me.

That Marine was tough though. Gotta give her credit for that.

[texasm203]

Originally Posted by gsh341

I would've beat the crap out of the idiot that put the CS in with the smoke, but my buddies stopped me.

Well, that there deserves an ass whoopin'.