Robert Webster

I was point man for quite awhile. It was a big responsibility, because a lot of guys behind, you know, especially in a company size or even platoon size patrols, our operations that we went on. I tried to be as, you know, as careful as I could, and all that, so. I think one other time, I was going across a big, that was whole, I think that was platoon size operation we was on, but I was going across this one big dike, and I don't know what the hell made me stop. I just seen a little piece of a cardboard sticking up on one corner. I don't know if the wind blew it, blew dirt off it or what. And here was, Christ it had to be about four feet by four feet maybe, I don't know where in the hell they got a big cardboard like that, you know, but then that pungy, it had that pungy pitConcealed pit filled with pungy sticks, very sharp bamboo stakes that are often coated with excrement, and planted to wound and infect the feet of enemy soldiers.
< http://www.answers.com/topic/ punji-stick > there, dug out in there. And hell, well, I would have fell in for sure, you know, cause we're spread out, you know. But that's probably just what they, as long as they get you out of the field I guess, or who knows. Maybe if I did fall in there and then called for medivac1: Emergency evacuation of the sick or wounded, as from a combat area. 2: A helicopter used for medevac.
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< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medevac > then all hell would've maybe broke loose or whatever, you know. Because you didn't know where in the hell they were, you know and stuff. But anyway, that was probably a four feet deep, you know, I don't know how damn many pungys, sticks were sticking out of there, them bamboo, you know. So, anyway, I lucked out again on that one.