The show is now available in the podcast section. I will be welcoming three guests on tonight. One of my guests writes “In 1996 I was stationed at Fort Stewart Ga I was part of a four man crew on Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
It was the last week in July and we were in the field I remember it so hot. Our Bradley troop was on a defensive screen line which means the Bradleys were around 150 to 200 meters a part. Scanning in front of us for enemy movement.
We would be out there for days and someone had to man the turrent all times of day. My shift was at 2.00 am So we would use the turrent to traverse rotating the horizon it was equipped with FLIR forward looking infrared.
You can use the vision to see at night or day directly through smoke. So while I was scanning I noticed what I thought was a person low crawling about 300 meters in front of me. When your scanning at night you have to take a break because you would develop green eye where everything you look at is green.
So I looked away for 30 seconds and looked back saw and it laying flat just watching us. I reported it to the vehicle next to us and he saw it too. Immediately we thought it was a scout probing our position it stayed laying down position for about an hour and got up and walked to our right and disappeared into the thick pines. We described it as Chewbacca at least that’s what we reporting the way it looked through comms we were being humorous about it. I was pretty nervous through out the year while dismounting scout mission running into that thing.
When the sun came up we walked to measure where it stood up and it was estimated 8ft. Never saw it again and never reported it. But I will never forget it, we were advised to not report it to our CO…”
Dovie D
Awesome thank you Wes sounds great ??