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To: unclewest who wrote (131299)	8/10/2005 2:24:12 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793729

Awe, you guys are so exciting!! All I ever shot was a goat that wondered into our perimeter at night. Thought it was a VC. (gg) jdn

To: unclewest who wrote (131299)	8/10/2005 4:01:51 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Respond to of 793729

At that time we were in 111 corps in the central highlands. It was mountain country (the most mountainous I saw there) with tall bamboo, way in the middle of nowhere. The tiger didn't really approach us, in the early morning it walked into an auto ambush we'd set on our back trail. We were about a klick away and we back tracked to see what had blown it. There were only a few small holes in him where the claymore pellets had hit but he was lying dead. That tiger was working a big NVA trail with bamboo matting on the trail and bamboo constructed trestles over a couple of small ravines. It was a BIG trail far, far out of artillery range and we were the only company in there. I'd heard the tiger make a coughing noise a couple of times on the first evening after we choppered in on top of a mountain. It was down below in the mist and it was such a tremendous sound that I wondered what could make such a noise. I was hoping that with a wild animal like that around maybe no NVA were there, but there were a lot of NVA there and I think the tiger was feeding on them. We had some bodies mysteriously disappearing with some still left and that tiger was well fed. I wouldn't have been surprised if it had been stalking and killing them on the trail before we arrived and made it easy for him. He was so big that my first thought when I saw his body was that a man would be like a mouse to that cat. He could easily take a man in his jaws and his front foreleg was as big around as my waist. His fangs were about 4 inches long and everything about him was awesomely powerful. I've seen Bengal tigers in the zoo and it's the comparison between seeing Walter Mitty and a heavyweight power lifter. The night after we killed him there was another tiger calling. By the way, they pulled us out after 4 days. We'd been walking a fine line between getting out and getting wiped out and I always wondered what they were going to do with that place. A chopper pilot told me later that they pulled an entire army division out of the Delta and dropped them onto that piece of jungle. He said they didn't have enough medivacs to pull out the dead and wounded guys from that division and that it took a couple of weeks before they could get them all back out and sent back to the Delta. They should have known better than to drop Delta soldiers into the jungle and that was a bad, bad place. I don't think the army ever went back there. It was that kind of area. I heard one story over there about a guy taking a dump who was grabbed by a tiger. The story I heard was the cat was bounding off with him in the tiger's mouth hollering when his buddies opened up with their 16s. The tiger dropped him and took off and he lived. Now that's a story he probably can't tell cause no one will believe him. You must have been hidden pretty well when you had a tiger approach. Were you one of the guys who spotted your tiger? Did you get to see it for a while or was it just a flash? Did you get that "WOW" feeling at the power of him that I got when I saw the dead tiger? Ed