Kent at Briefing “Is this geeza a Marine?”
Sunray: “No but go get him anyway”
Flew a recon helicopter and a number of others, some of which did a certain amount of exploding
Identified a crashed Huey and the unidentified tailplane of a military aircraft in the Northern end of the search zone.
Platoon tasked to locate and recover crashed Air Force F-100 pilot approx 4km south of Savage. Platoon deployed in two UH-1 helos with OH-13 armed scout and H-34 TK-1 Choctaw Stinger gunship support on call.
Hueys deployed infantry into the crater field to do a search on foot.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INFANTRY AT THIS POINT. WHAT HAPPENED?
Infantry proceeded to assault Chelt forces embedded in a village.
Blitz mildly dinged his Huey by reversing it into a Vulcan while landing at Sarge, got it repaired.
Infantry search teams extracted from crater field under fire. Blitz’ Huey lost to friendly rocket strike going wide. Mash’s Huey extracted team, moved them to LZ further South, also hot.
Solved Rotor Torque Alarm on OH-13 using the ground, switched to Stinger
Stinger dropped 38 rockets onto Blitz’s landed Huey.
OH-13 located remains of a crashed aircraft and a suitable nearby LZ. Hueys inserted infantry search team and withdrew to Vandergriff/Sarge. Infantry teams assaulted Chelt forces embedded in a village, took heavy contact and Stinger gunship was called in to support. Teams were extracted under fire from the initial LZ; one UH-1 was destroyed on the ground, no KIA.
Got lost in the jungle a lot.
Located crashed F-100, found note from pilot that he was on an alternate radio channel. Destroyed F-100 with Super Bazooka fire to deny to enemy.
Chelt Anti Air emplacement caused severe emotional distress to pilots and was dealt with.
Team members wounded by unseen attackers.
Search team was moved south to a secondary LZ and landed under fire, again with gunship support. After a lengthy search, team located the crashed F-100, destroying the wreck with Super Bazooka fire.
And also a kind of cool morse tracking down the pilot, but mostly just wandering around in circles being guided and/or shot by our own helicopters.
Found Chelt village with combatants who had been torn apart
Stuffed Stinger into gully trying to extract pilot.
MOTHERFUCKING PREDATOR
Made contact with downed pilot, extracted to hilltop LZ for extraction.
Search team RTO made contact with the F-100 pilot by W/T and later R/T, who was able to talk the team onto his position in a rocky gully just outside a Chelt village. Team took harassing fire from well concealed enemy throughout this move but was able to retain momentum.
Mash’s Huey damaged on landing, LZ came under attack by Chelt including two truckloads of infantry; held off with much HE and smoke.
Team extracted by CH-53E Jolly Green Giant; Huey destroyed to deny to enemy.
The team moved South with the pilot to a hilltop LZ for extraction, coming under attack by Chelt forces assessed to be a motorised platoon of PAVN regulars. The remaining UH-1 was damaged on the ground, and a CH-53 Jolly Green Giant was deployed from Savage to extract platoon.
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