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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: April 17th, 2016, 12:13am |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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This is another one that we saw only once in the field....it was LZ Mellon...while on guard duty at night some of us started to notice something "flying" from one tree to another top of a tree a short distance away...they were going as if in slow motion......couldnt really tell what it was....so the consensus was that they were "flying monkeys".
welllllllllllllllll, we were wrong.....it wasnt until a few years ago wheni was watching National Geographic documentary that i learned what they were.......the documentary was made in a SE Asian country (i forget which one) possibly Thailand or the PHilipines....and i learned that the were some type of squirrels with webbing between the legs and the body that gave them the ability to glide short distances....
we only saw them at night...perhaps we were too busy during the day to notice them
I did a super quick search on YOUTUBE and i came up with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfVq8N9TSlA |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: April 17th, 2016, 4:11pm |
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It would be interesting to hear what creatures vets here encountered in Vietnam.
I spent just about the full eleven months (thanks, Darby) of my tour in the field, jungle down south and more open up north.
Maybe my memory is fading, but aside from water buffalo, dogs and humans there were no mammals. Nope, not even rats where we were. No flying squirrels.
There were chickens, but I don't remember any other birds, except for sounds in the night.
Frogs made up the reptiles. No snakes.
Things like scorpions, ants, bees, wasps, centipedes. etc. were everywhere, all the time. |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
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| Jim Armstrong |
| Posted on: April 17th, 2016, 4:19pm |
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| And spiders the size of of dinner plates in webs stretched from rubber tree to rubber tree at eye level. |
Jim Armstrong
C, HQ, A 2/1
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| Frenchie |
| Posted on: April 17th, 2016, 7:54pm |
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Maximum Member2 LIke to hear from anyone that was Co C 4/31
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Jim: i rarely saw any wild life......no tigers, no elephants, no monkeys, even no snakes.
These animals are the ones everyone kept telling me about mostly near tay ninh ...
as far as the little things......leaches, mosquitoes come to mind......thats about it
I dont recall birds either even tho i probably heard them |
Frenchie - Gilbert E Manasselian
C 4/31 Feb 68 to Feb 69
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| Gregory B Peters |
| Posted on: May 1st, 2016, 6:41pm |
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Maximum Member2 B company, 3/21/196th, incountry 07/1966-07/1967
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| LOL, you guys must have never walked the point or the flank or went out in squad size recon. you saw everything when you were hyper alert :-) of course you didn't see much in triple canopy but the monkeys and birds were there. we usually followed animal trails and I think most were made by the wild boars that were popular. I also remember a little deer or pronghorn I called rikki tikki, they would run through the saw grass but also jump straight up in order to see and get their bearings. never saw the big cats, but heard them. seems to me we would get worried if we didn't hear the bugs, frogs and birds, usually meant something was coming or already there. If you saw rats, then no snakes. If you saw snakes, then no rats. The thing to remember was that Vietnam has been war torn and poor for hundreds of years. what wasn't scared off for good was killed and eaten. going to an open air market in Tay Ninh was not a pretty sight. Also think what agent orange and B-52 strikes did to the animal population. I had buddies up in DaNang and they talked about the Rock Ape, a Vietnamese Sasquach, but I think it was just regular monkeys fucking with them at nite. Our Filipino friends also had access to a lot of fresh meat, but I didn't ask what it was, just ate it :-) I also remember going through Chu Chi and seeing pet monkeys, mongooses, squirrels and wild cats. Dogs were a different story, don't remember ever seeing them or hearing them in the villages. I guess now a days they are raised as a major meat source. other than that most meals inland are vegeterian while seafood is added on the coast. |
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