** I'm serious as a heart attack. **

Aww, I wuz just givin' you a little tug, Carl. If I'd a been serious, I woulda put it in CAPITAL letters.

I had one semi-useless gunner (before Eggy, who was the greatest) who neglected to flip the switch on his '60 barrel, which then fell off somewhere between Pleiku and Polei Kleng on our first day into the Plei Trap. Cost me a fortune in under-seat trading material to some APC crew at Polei Kleng for one of their burnt-out barrels for the jackass. We got rid of him right after that.

He wouldn't jump either; had to push him out.

Bob