Tiger the Lurp Dog by Kenn Miller

Author:Kenn Miller [Miller, Kenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Men's Adventure, War & Military, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781480405530
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 1983-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter SIXTEEN

FOR FIVE DAYS RUNNING the storm clouds rolled off the ocean, lashing the scrublands and rice fields with sweeping curtains of rain and turning the Louc Ma road into a river of mud. In the town of Louc Ma the sewers overflowed into the shops and houses, and outside the town the farmers shivered under their leaf hats and plastic rain capes as they watched their fields flood and their crops wash away.

The storm swept over the coastal flatlands and lost none of its fury battering the abandoned terraces in the foothills. Far to the west, in the mountains along the Laotian border, Lurp Team Two-Two found itself without communication just after stumbling across a well-guarded high-speed trail. After a brief firelight, Two-Two successfully broke contact with a white phosphorus grenade, then, grateful for the rain that covered their movement, they hit their Escape and Evasion route for Firebase Culculine. All night and all the next day they broke bush, alternately cursing the weather for interfering with their commo and turning the slopes into treacherous mudslides, and thanking that Great Ranger in the Sky for sending the rain and misty darkness that made it easier to evade the NVA patrols that were certainly out for them after the firefight.

They kept moving night and day, pausing only in the thickest of high-ground vegetation to catch an occasional short nap and run up a wire antenna in hopes of raising the relay team. By the seventh day of what should have been a four-day mission, they were so low on food and so exhausted that the team leader broke out his pill kit and passed around the dextroamphetamines.

On the morning of the eighth day they heard signal shots on a ridgeline to their southwest and answering shots very close—a hundred meters at the most—to their northeast. Alarmed to discover the enemy moving in on them, they cut due south, crossing three trails and a freshly swollen stream. They plotted the trails and stream on their map overlays, then jogged west along the contour of a defoliated hillside.

Here, they surprised and killed three NVA couriers. The couriers were carrying oilcloth pouches full of papers. The ATL stuffed the pouches into his rucksack, and the team leader decided to take one of the dead men’s weapons—just in case they might have cause to fire again and couldn’t risk giving themselves away with the distinctive sound of their own CAR-15s.

Shortly before noon of the ninth day the weather broke, and Two-Two made its way back to its prearranged Escape and Evasion route. The team was still a long way from Culculine, but now the clouds were lifting, and with a little luck and the help of a wire antenna they ought to be able to get the relay on the horn. They had the wire, but they didn’t have any luck in raising the relay team. They pushed on to the northeast, over one ridgeline, down a steep draw, and up another ridge.

By now the men of Two-Two were thoroughly exhausted.

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