Vietnam Jungle Sensor Mission Encounter

What is the scariest story you know that is 100% true? Before my Dad died, he once told me

a story from when he was in Vietnam in the 1960s. He told me about a mission where

he and one other American with five CIDG strikers (South Vietnamese villagers turned fighters)

were tasked to emplace seismic ground sensors along a trail network deep in the jungle. He said they were

about two days into the mission when he and two of the strikers split off from the main group

to go watch a nearby trail intersection. He said the jungle was pretty quite that day,

just the sounds of birds and bugs and an occasional monkey. He said they had

been watching the trail intersection for about three or four hours and were deciding on