Army Life in the 70's
Copyright© 2014 by Dreaded
Chapter 4: Bobs Long Walk
After successful seasons of Fire Force the powers at large decided to deliver unto the Gooks a little of their own medicine – LAND MINES!!!! So our wonderful and sadistic engineers lead by the wonderfully sadistic Charlie decided to cook up the ultimate cake tin – that was what it looked like, a large cake tin only it was made out of Fiberglass ... This was filled with higher grade boom mix and set off by a variety of very sneaky and sadistic little devices. The main feature were slots for 3 AP mines on the top, underneath was a separate anti lift device. Separate to these were the provision for connecting a light sensor (make boom when uncovered) and a matt that when probed would close the circuit and you guessed it – BOOM ... Now these were wonderful in ways except one small little problem – they were bloody heavy!!!!
Now in a stick of 4 we could only carry 2 of these beasts but that was not a problem as we organized night air drops for the rest and planted around 2 per night...
The response and circus started around 2 days after we started ... The BOOOOM's were heard up and down the length of the area and the Gooks got really irate with Imperialistic White Smith Regime – the Gooks stopped traveling on the roads after day 3 and used tracks in the bush – this lasted another day until they found the tracks were also mined ... Giggle giggle ... On about day 5 we were watching their mine patrols clearing the roads and found that the Gooks had given up trying to defuse our mines and were just putting a grenade on top and running like hell ... As a matter of interest here any good tracker can pick up a mine in no time at all ... OK Huston we had a problem – actually no – just more fun – think of the opportunity to take out whole Gook patrols – yes the good ones are with me – lay a dummy mine, Cordex back 50m connected to 4 claymores –
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