On the outboard stores are white 250 lb. bombs. The Marines never had a thing on Ace Cozzalio. Imagine getting an Air Medal with V for putting an airstrike on the daytime farmers, nighttime fighters from a Cobra.

    I can hear the FAC now telling the forward observer: "This is Rash 20, I have a flight of F-4's with Nape, a flight of 105's diverted from the north with 750 pounders, and couple of crazy Army Cobra jocks up here at FL 15 with two 250 pounders, full load of mini, half a load of 40, and 38 17 pounders.
    The Cobra jocks are easy to identify because they are wearing Tan Stetsons, yellow scarves, one has a Gerber knife in his teeth, the other with saber. Each has spurs on his boots, a 357, a CAR 15, a box of WP, and a boilermaker in a cut off Black Label can on the dash next to the M-73 sight. Recommend we let those crazy bastards in first."

Hell, this could be the beginning of another tome from "Down in the Delta" which could be also sung to the Credence Clearwater Revival song "Down on the Bayou." J

Mike Sloniker
Col. US Army (Ret)