Ditto on the salute..
And for another Hila monster....(being they are to heavy to hump, thats what I call them being they are ususally deployed in the sand)
Speaking of Hila monsters...Rich will no doubt enjoy this...we were somewhere in NM I think (wasn't my choice of where the bird landed) and a bud of mine damn near stepped on one of those things. Everyone of course laughed at his dancing demise when he decided to reach down and grab the thing by its tail and toss it at us. Not knowing that the thing can be a little nasty. It "flipped back" up and over his hand as he went to chuck it at us and it latched onto his "elbow armor" strap which was slightly hanging down...after being totally caught off guard by this thing (he dropped his compass, the MP5 almost hit the dirt if not for the leash and due to added weight of the NODS on the helmet, its strap was choking him firmly around the neck cause he had snapped his head back at the audacity of this thing having the nerve to latch on to his equipment. He was standing there dumbfounded with the lizard hanging on and not letting go. So we took the oppurtunity to tell the New Jersey man that they are exremely poisonous. He then damn near ripped his own arm off trying to get the elbow pad off. The Hila let go finally and he tossed his elbow pad at it at which time the monster bit it again and wouldn't let go. Needless to say, the monster won the day for time was awaist'in and the mission had to "move on" while the Hila sat there and gnawed on larrys armor...
