In a message to Robert Linenweber  David Kirschbaum wrote:
 DK> We used "shineys", those E&E mirrors, whenever possible to show him
Vietnam made me a real believer in mirrors.  People used to pop smoke for me 
all the time and they were hard to find.  Somebody hit me with a mirror flash
one day and I was amazed how easy that was.  Very noticeable and very precise
(not like smoke that drifted everywhere before it came up through the trees).
 DK> I was in II Corp, with most of our support coming out of Pleiku.
 DK> Tri-Border area.  Usually used Dak To, Dak Pek, or Ben Het as forward
 DK> launch sites to get our chopper launch closer to the target area.
I sure wish I could remember the name of the place we went to get away from 
the typhoon.  I'm sure it was in your neighborhood.  They told us there was a 
high probability of having a serious attack that night.  I destroyed 
everything in my wallet except my ID card.  I didn't want the folks who cut 
off my head to have an address to send it to my parents.  When I got back to 
the states I wrote to Texaco and told them how I cut up my Texaco credit card 
in Vietnam and they wrote back and told me I couldn't have a new once since I 
was now a student on the GI Bill and didn't make enough money for one of 
their cards.  You could put all the Texaco gas I have bought since then in a 
thimble and have room left over.
 DK> strip to refuel or get some maintenance, or to Pleiku (I think to
 DK> goof off and meet their lady friends) .. but mostly they lived right
Goodness, your memory IS getting fuzzy.  That wasn't the words we used.
 DK> What?  You got LOST?  Tch tch tch.  :-)
Yep.  I did an even more public one in the states one time.  I landed in the 
middle of a Blue Angles air show.
 DK> That must've been embarrassing .. to have to ask some very curious SF
 DK> guy just where in the world you were :-)
I didn't land that time.  For starters, I wasn't SURE we were in Vietnam. 
However, for embarrassment, nothing beats landing among the Blue Angels (when 
you ain't one).
 DK>  > first put on a uniform March 1996 and still in uniform (and
 DK> 1996?  That's a typo, right?
Right (or maybe I should try to tell you I was just checking you).  1966. 25 
MAR 66 to be exact.
 DK> (For you lurkers out there, hope we aren't boring you with these old
 DK> war stories.  Especially "muddy boot" war stories :-)
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