Night Time .

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Night time in a war zone can give anyone the creeps . you see and hear things that become more and more real by the moment , the average American doesn't do well at night and he's fighting someone who use's the night to full advantage , the enemy knows he relatively safe from the Americans fire power , he will do things that will cause the Americans to give away their positions but he has also learned that though the American can get spooked the American will fight and fight hard , so the enemy does a quick hit and run doing the maximum amount of damage the damage was killing Americans because that is what upsets Americans the most .

[jerryfmcompushaft]

Things, they are a'changing, Mule. Night vision goggles have given the modern US Army a great advantage...

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Yes the goggles are there and the fear is too .

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At the Gun Show today I tried on a pair of the night vision goggles they're heavy and like the other earlier models the users eyes become blurry and like all of this type you have near zero depth perception .

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Flying from Lawson Field Georgia to Anchorage Alaska on the first leg to Vietnam , refueled at Anchorage then off to Tachicowa Japan , flying into Ton Su Nuit as we dropped down for the approach it was 11:00 pm and looking out the window I could see tracers flying through the night not at us but just looking at this I thought what in the hell was I getting into .

[mcnoch]

I saw in a Bundeswehr movie some veterans discussing about a similar issue while being on the watch. It seems the night-vision goggles, based on amplifying the remaining light isn't that big help in finding a concealed enemy. Infrared vision is much better, especially if the device is hanging on a balloon high in the air above the own position. These devices fit into a rucksack and can be carried with them onto the patrol.

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The Army is sometimes in to much of a hurry for a quick fix , the goggles are a vast improvement over the old starlight that was used in Vietnam but they are really not that useful , plain old night vision and tuned in hearing is still the best and a whole lot cheaper .

[Sir John]

In Tobruk they had no such new fangled stuff, but the garrison always said, "the night belongs to us" which is a bit difficult in a desert instead of a jungle.

The enemy never slept well.

SJ

[dontom]

Jul 27, 2013 21:06:43 GMT -5 @muleskinner07 said:

Night time in a war zone can give anyone the creeps . you see and hear things that become more and more real by the moment , the average American doesn't do well at night and he's fighting someone who use's the night to full advantage , the enemy knows he relatively safe from the Americans fire power , he will do things that will cause the Americans to give away their positions but he has also learned that though the American can get spooked the American will fight and fight hard , so the enemy does a quick hit and run doing the maximum amount of damage the damage was killing Americans because that is what upsets Americans the most .

My first night in Cambodia, a monkey jumped down from a tree onto the guy in the foxhole and he freaked and fired in automatic at around 0200 hrs. It caused chaos. It took over an hour for anybody to realize what was happening.

-Don- SF, CA

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An NVA monkey doing a hit an run .

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When I was in Vietnam there was a story in Stars and Stripes of a GI and a Orangutan the Orangutan jumped in the hole with the GI and they had a fist fight it ended with the Orangutan throwing the GI out of the hole .