There I was, Kandahar, Afghanistan, late February, 2002.
I worked the night shift at the 3rd BDE, 101st ABN DIV TOC, in the BDE Fire Support Element during Operation Anaconda. So, I wake up and throw on my full battle-rattle and start heading towards the terminal for another exciting night of 'net surfing. As I'm leaving my tent, a platoon from D/2-187 Inf. goes screaming past, loaded for bear in their uparmored Hum-vees; TOW launchers, M-2's, Mk-19's and SAW's pointing in every direction. They're heading towards the opposite end of the airfield and I'm left wondering what's happening. Well, once I got to the TOC, it didn't take long for me to get filled in on the situation.
Due to the hieghtened risk of rocket attacks, we had an AC-130 overhead almost constantly during the night. Well, the Spectre guys had called the TOC and reported some "suspicious" activity at a grid coordinate, which just so happened to be right next to the ammo dump. So, the Delta platoon was sent to investigate. The Spectre guys apparently knew exactly what the "suspicious" activity was all along and informed the RTO what they could see.
The "suspicious activity" turned out to be two soldiers, one male, the other, female, who thought the ammo dump was a perfectly discrete location for a midnight rendezvous. I guess they weren't aware of the AC-130 or its' capabilities. Afterwards, the BDE CDR, COL Wiercinczki gave an order, making KAF a no-sex post.
From what I heard, the AC-130 guys made copies of the tape and distributed amongst the folks back in Qatar.