Sirupati comes handy in Afghanistan

PIERRE,
Thanks, I think the result would have been the same no matter what K was used!Good guys won ne! Great!!Had some good friends in Spec. Ops. !
jim
 
I am not sure I agree with you. Remember that only two blows were ever given. Takes a special knife to do such a good job.

In my days I went through a lot of blades.Cost me a fortune and every single one failed me at one time or another! In this environment, you travel light and need a blade that can perform several functions and yet still be a weapon when needed. I wish I knew Uncle Bill years ago. Would have save me a lot of beer money.

Here is a tribute to Bob and his brothers:

The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment: get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories.

Kathy said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket an the front seat of the pickup when we hit a bump in the road and the eggs went flying and broke and made a mess."
"And what's the moral of the story?" asked the teacher.

"Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"

"Very good," said the teacher. "Now, Lucy?"

"Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. We had a dozen eggs one time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks. And the moral to this story is, don't count your chickens before they're hatched."

"That's a fine story Lucy," she continued. "Johnny, do you have a story to share?"

"Yes ma'am, my daddy told me this story about my Uncle Bob. Uncle Bob was a Green Beret in Vietnam and his helicopter got hit. He had to crash land in enemy territory and all he had was a bottle of whiskey, a machine gun and a kukhri knife. He drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then he landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. He killed seventy with the machine gun until he ran out of bullets, then he killed twenty more with his Kukhri till the blade broke ( was not an HI for sure!) and then kill the last ten with his bare hands."

"Good heavens," said the teacher, "What kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?"

"Don't f.... with Uncle Bob when he's been drinking."
 
Pierre,
M43 would have taken off the arm,so would a GS! I don't think anything can tand up to ANY Kuks!! Learned how to use a knife many years ago,Kuks are the best & as for $$$ you don't want to know how much I've spent on knives(let's juist say you & Uncle would not have to buy ANY beer for a long,long,long time)! :D
Take care,
jim
 
One thing that came backsevral times upon debriefing was Bubba's question of what cut him and if all Yankees had been issued similar weapons
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I hope they told him "well that was a SMALL version that cut you, you should see the ones most guys carry!" :D:D

Thanks for detailed field report Pierre:) I was hungry for lunch, but now I can wait an hour or so;)
 
Pierre,you said Bob took less than a second to clear the scabbard.Which side was he carrying it on:strong side or crossdraw? So far I've found my Siru works better crossdraw.

Maybe someone can correct me,but I think I read somewhere that one of the reasons given for the cho was as a blade catcher.Glad it worked here.

Thanks to Bob and his pals for a job well done.

WoodOwl
 
Bob hit the R collar bone with the back of the blade (broke it too)and then hit the arm from L to R with the cutting edge of the blade in a slightly downward motion.
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I think Bubba's really lucky somebody was anxious to talk to him. Just think of that sequence starting with the sharp side hitting the collarbone. Yikes!

Dunno if using the back side was deliberate due to training with "regular" knives or the desire for capture, or the just the way things flowed. I've seen a couple of people break collar bones and they went into shock pretty instantly. Not incapacitating shock, just kinda got real dopey and stupid like.

Could help explain Bubba's later actions.
 
More details = more questions. So here are the latest answers after checking with Bob:

- Bob apologizes for the guess on the drawtime but his stopwatch was at the shop that day . He said however that it did appear to take about a second. [Keep in mind that sense of time varies greatly under stress. Anybody who has been in a car accident will confirm that it either appeared to happened in almost slow motion or that things appeared way too fast to react].

- One thing Bob said was that the whole incident (including dispatch of the other 8 hornets) seemed to last forever when if fact it was over in about 12mn (as per Bob and based on his radio log reporting 1rst encounter and last call)

- Bob think that the fight with Bubba itself did not last more than 1-2mn tops (anyone who went on for a few rounds of boxing will tell you, it is a LONG time)

- Knife was carried crossdraw on the L side.

- YES the hit with the back of the blade was deliberate. So was the other ! ( first hit to collar bone and arm was done in one fluid movement)

- Bubba did not pass out/go into shock when the collar bone broke. Bob thinks that adrenaline rush is the reason.

- Bob indicated that about 2-3 hours after the facts, he suddenly felt as if he had run 3 marathons back to back with Roseanne on his shoulders (I quote) [Bob is 5'10, 190 and holds black belts in various martial arts]

Finally, Bob has asked me to send his sincere thanks to all in the cantina for your support. He would prefer for this to die down for two reasons:

1)Any publicity is bad publicity for Bob [he has already threatened to take away my unlimited beer credit]
2) Believe it or not, Bob is really shy and does not think he did anything else than his job while trying first to stay alive.

While I agree with him on the first point, and hope most questions have been answered, I still think he did a hell of a job considering the situation and the restraint he showed.

Hope these clarifications will answer all questions and that you all understand that it has to be the end to this story.
 
Thanks, Pierre, and convey my admiration and best wishes to Bob. Everything said by him makes perfect sense to me.
 
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