i was hoping this ammo was hot loads...ROFLMAO yes we did once.... There actually was a US special forces project to booby trap VC/NVA ammo caches. The early system (done in-country) was to pull bullets and replace the powder with a full load of Bullseye. Later, special ammo was reworked, (apparently at Army SF bases on Okinawa) and packed with some kind of high explosive. This was done under the code names Italian Red, Bolo Beans, and possibly Italian Green. The ammo later included fixed grenades and mortar shells. The munitions were supplied to Ranger, SF, Force Recon, and SEAL units, who would insert them into small caches of enemy supplies. This was so wide spread, that the Army had new 7.62X39 ammo manufactured for special units to use in captured AK-47s, and all troops in Vietnam were warned not to shoot captured ammo. A large project similar to this was used by the British SAS in Malaya during the Red Chinese sponsored Emergency. Near the end of the insurrection, the Chinese were in so desperate need of ammo, the SAS were replacing MOST of the captured munitions with booby trapped ammo and grenades. Sources for this info come from a number of books written by and about British SAS operations, and a fair number of books written by various US special ops people who served in Vietnam. Apparently the most prolific cache salters were the Army LURP and Ranger units. The info on the code names for the SF project, the manufacture of booby trapped ammo on Okinawa, and the manufacture of 7.62X39 ammo for US uses came, I think, from the history of SOG, published a few years ago, as well as several books written by former Rangers and SEALs.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:18:51 +0000
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