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#273 M14 Picture of the Day - Viet Nam
Half dressed American soldiers of 9th Inf. firing at enemy troops somewhere along the South Vietnamese-Cambodian border area.
Location: Vietnam
Date taken: May 1970
Photographer: Larry Burrows
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
Mark, looks like our boys almost got caught with their pants down. M14rifleman looking over scope for a target. I had a high school friend in the 3rd. I.D. in 1970, mostly a point man, he carried a shotgun. Thanks for the pic.....Frank
Great photo... it looks like the man in the foreground is firing; If you look at the back of the soldier behind the M60 gunner it looks like a spent case was caught in mid air by the photographer.
Good eyes stripper clip, now I see the spent case, also notice the rise of his rifle. Love those shots of fighting with a cig in the lips. That was back in the day.....Frank
Can you imagine a pickey line like that today ?
No flak vest, no helmets, no goggles, or knee pads.....
The boys today look at their fathers and they think what????
The sniper wears glasses?
So I can't spell, so what!!!
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who beat their swords into ploughshares, will plough for those who don't!
Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Remember, corrective lenses are just that! That makes his eyesight correct. There are many attributes that make an exellent sniper such as patience, skill at arms, fieldcraft, marksmanship, fitness and nowhere in the book did it say he COULD NOT wear corrective lenses. He also doesn't look to be the fittest man around but maybe he has the patience of Job and shoots ten-x's all day. Besides that, who says that's HIS rifle?
Could be he inherited it also. So to speak!
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