we i think back at the time it was,nt funny but now i have a good giggle,
during the battle at the lombar river in angolas we all sitting in our rattles,armoured troop carrier,as we where going into the attack we where hearing the ping ping ping of the small arms fire hit our vechile,we where told by intelegance that the enemy tanks had no fuel and where low on ammo,well needless to say i saw trees being cut in half by the enemy fire,as the order came stop, stap uit our vechile was hit there was a load bang the whole rattle had lifted in the air came down quite hard and our ears where ringing all we heard was fire,actually our gunner said prepare for fire ,well we hit the fire buttons which had come loose and our 2 rifleman grabbed the hand held fire extinguisher and started spraying,their was ****ing whitepowder everywhere,from the main extinguisher and smaller ones one thing i did notice we where reversing very quickly,as we stopped further back where it was relatively safe we climbed out ,well all 7 rifleman where covered in this fine white powder from giggles to histerical fits of laughter our major could,nt untill he saw us what we found so funny in the middle of a firefight.We found out later that our front left had side our vechile had been hit by T54 tank round it chewed up all the metal veered of and exploded somewhere behind us.Well i am not ashamed to admit it but a few of us had to change our pants after that
