Just in answer to your question, Jim, . . . one time several decades back, I was on watch at our BEQ in southeastern Saigon. I had the midnite to 6, which was when charlie liked to blow the place up with his little VW trucks loaded with C4.
When I came on watch, I was handed an M14 and two mags of ball ammo, and told that I would probably get rained on. Yeah, I did.
I also surveyed out the situation, knowing that if charlie came tonight, he would come down from my left, the second street out, would probably make a high speed right turn, try ducking the barricades, and head for the BEQ. There was a midnite to 4 curfew, . . . but lots of locals paid it no mind at all.
Sure enough, . . . just after 3, . . . when all was a bit rainy and quiet, . . . and I had moved across the street and out of the rain: here comes the VW truck, back loaded with wooden boxes, two folks (driver & gunner??), high speed right turn, and ducking around the barricades.
I had previously marked my place for a warning shot, . . . JIC, . . . knowing that the M14 would do the driver first and the engine second. When the VW hit my warning shot line, I laid one round just over the cab, pulled down onto the driver to see what would happen next.
Dude may have been carrying C4, . . . but it was probably fish, . . . he stood that VW on its nose, put her in reverse, and backed up for 2 full blocks.
Moral of the story, . . . some of us have seen bad scenarios, . . . this one just turned out right. When I went to police up my brass later, . . . I couldn't find it. Nowhere!!!!! Finally checked the chamber, . . . voila!!!! Seems someone had changed the gas valve, . . . and of course I didn't check it.
The whole thing could have turned out a whole lot worse, . . . and I still get somewhat scared sometimes when I remember that one.
May God bless,
Dwight