** I hated elephant grass. **

How about the punji stakes, Ron?

Hovered into a field of elephant grass on a lrrp extraction out of An Khe, on the dark side of dusk. Lrrps were on the run, carrying one wia. I just saw the stakes at the last second, just in time, as our wash blew the grass down. Big 'uns, 5 or 6 footers, probably designed to go into the belly of the ship and/or skewer anybody who dropped out of one.

Yikes.

Bob