[Ambush Master]

While at One-Zero School at Camp Long Thanh, there was a leg S4 Captain who had been bugging the Instructors for months to let him go for a Stabo Ride. The day our Class got to go on a few rides, to learn how to safely use the rigs, our Instructors spied said Capt. with a rig and talking with the Helicopter Pilots. After we were through, and headed back to the classroom, the Instructors stopped us and said to wait a minute. After we heard the Choppers take off, we were called back to the heli-pad and there went the Captain straight up a few hundred feet. The chopper, with him in tow, then pitched over and sort of dove a little to gain translational lift. The Capt. was screaming his head off. He was then flown around the camp a few times and then the Instructors, laughing their asses off, said WATCH THIS !!! The chopper took him almost out of sight, to where the 25th ID "Waste Treatment Pond" was located, descended, then proceeded to DRAG THE CAPT THROUGH IT !!!! They brought him back, set him down to the side of the pad and cut the rope then left. !!! His Jungle Fatigue Pockets were BULGING !!! He was totally covered with extremely smelly waste.

Back in the classrooms we found out that the instructors had made a deal with the Pilot to give him the extra special ride. Before we graduated, said Captain had requested and was granted a transfer to a leg line unit.