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Originally Posted by Dozer523
Does anyone have stories about stinging ants? I worked for a LTC at SWC who talked about these ants that formed balls that hung from the trees. Said he'd seen firefights dirrupted for both sides because the ants got disturbed.
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Not my generation, to young to see combat like the older guys, sorry fellas!
While trng with Hondurian SF, we made a jump on a well known DZ. The problem was the DZ was covered with these termite looking ants that built large cone like fortresses, standing 2.5 to 4.0 ft high. We were given the option to either land on the DZ, or chose the ocean or tree line. The ocean had it's own problems, SHARKS!, cruising the shallows in 5 to 10 ft of water, just off the DZ, or we could choose the tree line with caimens. The trees proved more dangerous than the timid caimens. I opted for the DZ, probem was I selected a perfect landing point, while my canopy cascaded over three mounds of termites. Gathering the chute was ok. I felt sorry for the truck driver who had to unload kit bags and the riggers who re-packed the gear. I took some Johnny Walker, (3 bottles, all I had) to the Hondurian soldiers and helped shake chutes.
Termites flew in the breeze!