Reply #17: When I was in Vietnam we were required to expend our Ammo [View All]

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every mission. They felt if we came back with ammo we had not done our job correctly. We shot at anything that moved, monkeys, elephants, water buffalo, anything just so we could shoot at something. It was a requirement......Each doorgunner had 2500 rounds and the minis had four thousand rounds each and each rocket pod had fourteen rockets with a seventeen pound warhead. Plus each doorgunner had grenades hanging in the door to be dropped like bombs at strategic times. Every mission we were required to expend even cold missions. when the mission was a cold insertion we would visit a site on the way back to the base to "rattle a few cages" Wars are expensive and the majority is waste.