Funniest thing to happen in BUD/s, Training, or Combat???

[tfwmissions]

So what is the funniest thing to happen in BUD/s, in Training, or in Combat? Either it happen to you or to someone else?

[Wazz]

In the War Movies this would look silly, but it was real life with the equipment we had then.

We took our LCPR (small 22') boat into shore to shoot up an enemy encampment at night. While down shore a group of British Commandos were doing a RR tunnel. Our boat was loaded with guys with BAR's (older machine guns), me on the bow .30 cal, and my friend Shep at the stern .30 cal that we secured by line (rope).

When we eased into position I heard this train going overhead, then a loudest explosion I had ever heard. I almost filled my pants. Then more trains and explosions. What they forgot to tell me was that the supporting APD was going to, and was at the time dropping Star Shells over the enemy encampment.

After shooting up the hooches and soldiers good for approx 2 minutes we turn to high tail it out of there, which means bow to seaward and stern to the beach. I yelled down everone, so I could get a clear shot at the beach as we pulled away. But we had never had a man with a tied down gun on the stern. So when the bow rose from the power, with me unloading ordnance, my rounds inadvertantly missed my friend's head by about a foot. And yes, he did complain when we got back to the APD.

[Chickenhawk]

One of my more memorable moments was during a trainup for Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. A bunch of us were practicing fastrope insertions, around September 1994 or so. I was in the door, so it was my job on this particular run to kick the fastrope. As our Blackhawk made its approach and flared, I kicked out our rope, somehow snagging my Camelbak mouthpiece in the process. The mouthpiece pulled off, and the hose began whipping around in the rotorwash, spraying all of us inside the helicopter. Needless to say, this caused a frenzy of activity, which ended as soon as I tied a knot in the hose, then slid down the rope. Upon talking to observers on the ground, we got an outsider's point of view of the helicopter cabin circus that we just starred in. The guys on the ground thought for sure a grenade had come loose on someone's web gear, possibly with the pin pulled, and that we were scrambling to contain or toss it. When they found out it was just an accidental dicharge of a Camelbak, they just about fell down laughing. Oh, for some video of that debacle!