"The quiet of the early morning jungle was shattered when the NVA troops opened fire with their AK-47s and SKS rifles.
The AK rounds ripped into the point man’s chest and face. The fatal impact of those rounds lifted the canteen covers around his waist, appearing to keep his body suspended in air.
What had been a human body milliseconds earlier was being chewed into an amorphous form that hit the ground with a sickening thud. Arterial blood spurted high into the air.
Three rounds slammed into the One-Zero’s head, blowing off the right side of his face, killing him instantly.
The survivors returned fire, picking off NVA soldiers on top of the rise; shooting them one after another. Sometimes they spun and we shot them a second or third time.
The team formed into a circle and directed a barrage of M-79 grenade rounds and CAR-15 fire into the surrounding jungle. Then startling, eerie silence.
Both the NVA and the team tended to their wounded while the living combatants slammed loaded magazines into their hot weapons. There was moaning and groaning, human suffering on both sides.
They scavenged weapons and ammo from the dead team members.
The team planted a claymore mine with a five-second time-delay fuse. It wreaked havoc on the hard-charging NVA. As the smoke cleared and the body parts settled back to earth, we charged through the battered and torn ranks of the NVA warriors, killing any standing enemy; at least 50 NVA dead.
The deadly skirmishing continued for several hours. They were up against an entire regiment." - ST Alabama, MAC-V- SOG, Oct 5, 1968, Vietnam. (Excerpt from: Across the Fence)
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