When I was with the 271st “Innkeepers” a Chinook unit based at Can Tho, we helped move some company out of their area. I don't recall if the company was being relocated or deactivated. Our involvement was to sling out a big pile of lumber. Listening in on the conversation between the ground people and our Pilot, they told him to get the hell out of there because they were in a hurry to leave.
As I was the one “running the hole” (that is; to guide the pilot over the hookup man) I asked about 3 or 4 pallets of rockets sitting nearby. Pilots asks the ground person. He said “we'll have a Cobra in and blow them up so Charlie can't make use of them”.
That's the military for you.

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