Not sure it was the same on your side... but the smell was called “Wolf Pussy”.. (smell of the sulpher from Vietnam old powder) :p
Yup.
Still called that.
And the ammonium nitrate pellet propellants smell plenty funny themselves.
We were light towed 105mm field pieces.
Six gun battery.
We fired under our own Illume a few times.
At the time we were told that was “wrong” and “near impossible”.
We went “ uh, we’ve been doing it that way all night.”
The oc’s had a heart attack, nervously muttered among themselves for a bit.
Dunno why.