"The jungle was so thick in the areas we worked you could be walking for hours and be going right besides a major NVA trail, with the enemy on it, and not know it.
Some of the old timers, support personnel from Korea, would be surprised about my tactics but again I would explain that in Korea you could see clearly for 100’s of meters. Some of my kills were 10 feet away while others were 30 feet. But still we, the enemy and I, knew the color of each others’ eyes at the moment of contact.
The huge advantage of the tracer rounds is being able to shoot from the hip. I always carried my weapon with what I call a jungle sling. My weapon is slung under my left arm, I’m left handed, and my left hand is always on the pistol grip ready to fire. I cannot tell you the times I ran into the enemy and was able to kill them while they were raising their weapon to fire.
With the tracers I would walk my rounds into them firing from the hip. I still remember my first kill with the tracer rounds. My point man and I were crossing a small trail. We crossed just a few feet down from a bend in the trail. As I stepped on the trail 3 NVA came around the bend with their weapons on their shoulders.
Again as they were bringing their AK’s down I fired from the hip. I’m sure this will be hard to believe, but I still can see the tracer rounds hit the first man. I put 3 holes across his chest. We were so close, 10 or 12 feet, I could see smoke coming out of the bullet holes as he was going down. I will never forget that.
I continued firing and killed the other two." Jim Bolen, Mac V Sog #stayzero #zerofoxtrot #ballsdeep #macvsog #military #breednightmares