Were you there when a Scout Pilot named Louwassa (sic) was making legends? He and I met vicariously in-country and wound up in the same National Guard unit afterwards.
It seems he was sat on his Vietnamese made folding chair cleaning his rifle when a burst of machine gun fire straddled where he was sat. As he told that tale in our bar at the NG Armory, he identified the source of the gunfire as being a Chinook. Someone then asked me "Didn't you fly Chinooks out of Phu Loi?" I quickly answered "Nay!".
It was my right door gunner that fired off the rounds....the entire trigger mechanism fell off the M-60 when he closed the feed cover over the belt of ammo and the gun ran away. The gunner immediately twisted the belt and shut the gun down.
I quizzed the crew on what had happened and they promised me on their Mum's Grave that none of the rounds went inside the airfield perimeter. Three years later the truth came out during a game of Pool.
Lou was the scout pilot who got pinned down by a .51 Caliber MG on the side of Nui Ba Dinh mountain. Every time he tried to climb out of the crevice he was hiding the aircraft in....the .51 let loose on him getting the occasional hit. After no short time he announced to his Cobra buddies that he was running out of stuff to hide behind as the .51 was trimming the trees down which he was hiding behind. His buddies asked him how he was doing and Lou said "I think I am winning!" as his gunner was shooting back with an M-60.