Eyes Behind The Lines L Company Rangers In Vietnam – Gary A Linderer

We both nodded in agreement. “Seems like the only thing to do, sir,” I responded with a smile on my face. I would have enjoyed taking one good kick at that damned can myself. Fadeley and I returned to the team and broke the news to them. They weren’t nearly as upset as I had suspected. They had pretty well figured on their own that there was a slim chance of getting out ahead of the line doggies.

Well, at least we weren’t lost, alone, and starving anymore. It was an improvement over the previous night’s situation. As the infantry company started to break camp in preparation for moving back down the spine of the ridge, a pair of Cobra gunships radioed that they were going to try to get into us with a few cases of C rats and some fresh radio batteries.

They had monitored the plight of the medevac that had tried to get into us earlier. The pilots of the two Cobras were from the same squadron as the gunship that had been shot down on the side of the mountain below us. Captain Ross told them to go ahead and try.

He would talk them in. Soon we could hear the deep, pulsing sound of the first Cobra as it took up a position over us. It sounded a good thousand feet above us. But with the thick fog muffling the sounds, it was probably much lower. Captain Ross set up his radio in the center of the saddle and put a couple of his men on each of the flanking knolls with flash panels. He was smart enough not to use any smoke grenades, which would only have added to the mist covering the mountaintop.

We watched as he coached the first gunship down through the cloud cover. The engine noise grew louder, until it seemed like it was in the perimeter with us. Suddenly, the Cobra’s rotor wash began swirling the thick layer of fog around us until we could see the skids of the chopper break though into the pocket of dense, moisture-laden air around our perimeter.

Closson quickly corrected, “Left five-zero, drop five-zero. Fire for effect!” The fire control officer called back for verification, warning Closson that the rounds would be almost on top of our position. “Affirmative, that’s where the enemy is,” Closson told him. We ate dirt as we flattened ourselves into the depression that served as our NDP. We knew that final “drop five-zero” would put the next salvo just outside our claymores. And if that didn’t stop them, they’d be in the perimeter with us.

Seconds passed, then we heard the deafening whoosh that accompanies a large steel projectile as it punches a hole through the sky. The incoming rounds sounded like an express train … with us waiting at the depot. I nearly ruptured my eyelids as I clenched my teeth and waited for the end of my life.… OceanofPDF.com By Gary A. Linderer: THE EYES OF THE EAGLE: F Company LRPs in Vietnam, 1968 SIX SILENT MEN: 101st LRP Rangers: Book Three PHANTOM WARRIORS: Book I: LLRPs, LRPs, and Rangers in Vietnam PHANTOM WARRIORS: Book II OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com A Presidio Press Book Published by The Random House Publishing Group Copyright © 1991 by Gary A.

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