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Title: Stalking
Post by: cav58d on October 11, 2006, 12:15:08 AM: Does anyone know of any accounts of tiger's or any other large cats, stalking and even killing US Servicemen during the Vietnam war?
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Post by: Billy Joe Bob on October 11, 2006, 12:24:04 AM: no but i have never thought of that happening.....
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Post by: JB88 on October 11, 2006, 12:33:11 AM: (http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/images/galleries/65/65_2_medium.jpg)
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Post by: Stoney74 on October 11, 2006, 01:10:25 AM: "I'm gonna get some mangos..."

--Chef--

Appocalypse Now
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Post by: Obie303 on October 11, 2006, 01:30:54 AM: Being attacked, no. But my uncle did tell me a story of his platoon finding a charred tiger after a napalm run in the I Corp. (He was in the 5th Marines in 68')
Title: Re: Stalking
Post by: Debonair on October 11, 2006, 01:58:47 AM: Quote
Originally posted by cav58d
Does anyone know of any accounts of tiger's or any other large cats, stalking and even killing US Servicemen during the Vietnam war?

i was never in siagon, but i hear there were some big ******* after gi joe there
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Post by: MoeRon on October 11, 2006, 02:34:14 AM: i think tigers were the last thing on there minds with asian cobras, king cobras, coral snakes, kraits, and numerous vipers and pit vipers stalking you.
:huh
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Post by: B@tfinkV on October 11, 2006, 02:48:27 AM: i woulda thought the small and nimble creatures with automatic rifles would have been a concern at some point also.
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Post by: JB88 on October 11, 2006, 03:20:26 AM: Quote
Originally posted by B@tfinkV
i woulda thought the small and nimble creatures with automatic rifles would have been a concern at some point also.

lol
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Post by: Bluedog on October 11, 2006, 03:32:31 AM: A mate leant me a book years ago called 'RECCONDO. LRRPs of the 101st Airborne.' by Larry Chambers. ISBN 0-8041-0843-9

There is a bit in that where they run into what they presumed was a tiger one night in the bush. (they didn't see it, just heard it and the screams of their scout as he was killed by it)
On the same patrol, their radioman was struck by lightning.

One hell of a walk in the bush, one that I bet none of the participants will ever forget.

I was reading another book at the same time, about roughly the same thing (long range recon patrols in Vietnam) and it may have been in that, not reccondo, unfortunately I cannot remember the title or author of the second book.
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Post by: Blank on October 11, 2006, 04:10:48 AM: found this, a few accounts and photos near the bottom of the page:

http://www.ichiban1.org/html/stories/story_46_tiger.htm
Title: Re: Re: Stalking
Post by: Thrawn on October 11, 2006, 06:26:15 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Debonair
i was never in siagon, but i hear there were some big ******* after gi joe there

Quote
Originally posted by MoeRon
i think tigers were the last thing on there minds with asian cobras, king cobras, coral snakes, kraits, and numerous vipers and pit vipers stalking you.

What's the problem, G.I. Joe always kicked Cobra's ass.
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Post by: MoeRon on October 11, 2006, 08:31:04 AM: Quote
A bowl of tiger noodle soup can fetch $350 in Taiwan and South Korea
:O

from Blanks post, thats crazy. I've never paid more than $250
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Post by: indy007 on October 11, 2006, 09:25:34 AM: I've read 2 accounts about tigers in Vietnam from the same book.

Maverick: The Personal War of a Vietnam Cobra Pilot (http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/0515106623.html)

In one instance, the "blues" (air cav infantry) had set a typical horseshoe ambush for the night. A pair of Tigers showed up sniffing around their positions. They were too terrified to even shoot them.

Another instance popped up with a Tiger snatching kids from the local village. They took the village chief up in a Huey to go look for it, and eventually flushed it out. The chief freaked out, jumping up & down in the cargo bay (he was really short). They ended up popping it with a grenade launcher, and the crew were later given the claws on a necklace by the villagers.
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Post by: FUNKED1 on October 11, 2006, 12:36:22 PM: Never get out of the boat. Absolutely whoopee right. Unless you were goin' all the way.
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Post by: SIK1 on October 11, 2006, 01:28:19 PM: I have a friend that was a LRRP, G co Ranger. He told me a story about a patrol they were on where the point man had slipped down a hill, next thing they know the guy empties his m16. When they get down to him it turns out that he landed face to face with a tiger. The best part is that he didn't hit a damn thing, they found no tiger, no blood trail, nothing.

SIK1
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Post by: Yeager on October 11, 2006, 01:51:27 PM: I used to know a guy at work (since retired) that was a maintenance dog in the USAF staioned in the Nam during the great police action. He loved to tell the story about going to some zoo (Saigon?) and when leaned up against the Tiger cage for a photo op the damned cat grabed him and tore his jacket off. He always maintained that the cat nearly got him then he would laugh, haha.....