Strange War Time Ambushes..

[Travelingchild]

While looking at Youtube videos during a flu spell.

This popped up.
The Strange Ambush of Team Rock Mat, Vietnam 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpDnlGT3LxY

Was wondering if stuff like this happens more than reported.

So to our Military Members what's the Strangest thing that has happened to you in the field.

[Averageman]

My Dad told me about LP's getting spooked by jungle animals.
He mentioned some kind of monkey that would make noise and move around.
A freaking tiger taking someone out, that's crazy.

[SteyrAUG]

Never get out of the boat.

[Chubbs103]

I have had always found the predators at the top of the food chain pretty fascinating. I've also spent a fair amount of time solo in the woods. This included some close-up encounters with black bears, and I've come across mountain lion tracks while hiking. I always found it exciting.

In 2006, I watched a group of hyenas slink by in Iraq and it really freaked me out. Maybe it was because I had no idea there were fu@&ing hyenas in Iraq. It chilled something deep inside of me. I have never had a reaction like that to any animal sighting before or since.

[26 Inf]

I've had folks tell me that monkeys in the area of the Jungle Warfare School in Panama would move in squad team formation - apparent learned behavior

[turnburglar]

In Afghanistan we worked at night usually. It was pretty common to run into dogs, sheep, camels, goats, and fowl. One night I stayed behind to do whatever around the trucks, and the rest of the squad went on patrol. When everyone got back to the trucks they where all super freaked out. Like 12 out of the 13 people on the patrol swear they saw something they could only describe as the chupacabra. By their description it looked like a 60 pound dog but was hairless and looked super weird and ran away when it noticed them notice it. Keep in mind most of these accounts are from dudes wearing NVG's. Some where better condition than others for sure.

This wasn't even deployed. I worked at Nellis, and due to a power outage they had to put 2 bodies physically in one of the abandoned armories since the remote alarms where not operational. So basically its me and a buddy getting dropped in the middle of the mostly abandoned munitions armories adjacent to the nuclear storage (also abandoned), during a complete power outage. So no street lights or even normal fluorescent building lights. Just the 2 cell surefire I normally carried on my duty belt, our radios, cell phones (**** sprint) and a lantern my buddy was smart enough to bring. We also had our M9's obviously. This was right before my first deployment but my buddy already had a few under his belt, and was a total alcoholic at that point. He wasn't super easily spooked. The whole night (12 hour shifts) felt like a week of darkness. We would do our hourly radio checks, that sometimes would work, and other times wouldn't. Like even standing in the exact same spot as we did the last time. The way the door worked on the armory we had to have one guy on the inside, otherwise the door would lock. So if we needed to go to the bathroom or do a radio check or just get some air outside of the 90* it was inside the building, you had to do it alone. This shift was straight out of resident evil. Taking even a quick piss in the desert, you would get the most dreadful feeling of imminent demise, even though we where supposed to be one of the furtherest posts on base. I guess besides the constant fear and being forced to live by flashlight for 12 hours, nothing really out of the blue happened.

Now that I am thinking about it, working security at nights for 4 years the stories really start to add up.

[Travelingchild]

Found this, more contemporary , might have even been posted here at one time.

https://www.newsweek.com/isis-fighte...vilians-589816

[Chubbs103]

Like 12 out of the 13 people on the patrol swear they saw something they could only describe as the chupacabra. By their description it looked like a 60 pound dog but was hairless and looked super weird and ran away when it noticed them notice it. Keep in mind most of these accounts are from dudes wearing NVG's. Some where better condition than others for sure.

In Kabul we used to see cats that had some flesh eating disease. Patches of their skin would rot and you could see their muscles working. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the dogs caught something similar and lost their hair.

We had quite a few feral dogs that followed us around my last deployment. They would try to catch the monstrous porcupines we had in the mountains. I worked with an SFC that would pull quills out of the same dog about every week.

[T2C]

When you swim in the ocean or enter the jungle, you become part of the food chain. It's nothing personal.

[Diamondback]

This wasn't even deployed. I worked at Nellis, and due to a power outage they had to put 2 bodies physically in one of the abandoned armories since the remote alarms where not operational. So basically its me and a buddy getting dropped in the middle of the mostly abandoned munitions armories adjacent to the nuclear storage (also abandoned), during a complete power outage. So no street lights or even normal fluorescent building lights. Just the 2 cell surefire I normally carried on my duty belt, our radios, cell phones (**** sprint) and a lantern my buddy was smart enough to bring. We also had our M9's obviously. This was right before my first deployment but my buddy already had a few under his belt, and was a total alcoholic at that point. He wasn't super easily spooked. The whole night (12 hour shifts) felt like a week of darkness. We would do our hourly radio checks, that sometimes would work, and other times wouldn't. Like even standing in the exact same spot as we did the last time. The way the door worked on the armory we had to have one guy on the inside, otherwise the door would lock. So if we needed to go to the bathroom or do a radio check or just get some air outside of the 90* it was inside the building, you had to do it alone. This shift was straight out of resident evil. Taking even a quick piss in the desert, you would get the most dreadful feeling of imminent demise, even though we where supposed to be one of the furtherest posts on base. I guess besides the constant fear and being forced to live by flashlight for 12 hours, nothing really out of the blue happened.

That makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand just reading it...