"I wanted to balance out the weight distribution by having me on one side of the helicopter and Bubba on the other," he says. "It was impossible to tell for sure which ropes went where so I took a wild guess and hope for the best." The Huey somehow came up with the power it needed, but we had to push our way through some branches,. We were being lifted straight up. With my feet dangling in the air, I fired around from my M 79. Still gaining altitude, I then pulled the pins on two hand grenades and tossed them down at about the same time the claymore went off.