Amusing accounts especially when heard decades and thousands of miles away....but they spark a bit of recall of other events in other places that were just as amusing to the victims....afterwards!
Venue....Vietnam...Operation...Cambodia Incursion...synopsis....stream of helicopter formations (approximately 650 aircraft) from a half dozen departure points.....each unit with its assigned task and sequential take-off ("you guys follow that bunch....").
Everything went pretty smoothly...until two things happened.
The North Vietnamese Army (NVA) ignored their role as proposed by the US Army Senior Leadership....and we all began to arrive back at the refueling locations.
The FARP's were inundated with vastly more users than they could accommodate....meaning lots of aircraft having to land anywhere they could...or run out of fuel.
Then, with no organized queue for fueling....the NVA joined in the fun and games by shooting mortars, rockets, and artillery at all those sitting ducks.
A Chinese Fire Drill would have been seen as well structured, organized, and conducted in proper order and discipline.