2 March 2024 M14 Picture of the Day - 50th Anniversary of Landing in Vietnam

[Mark in Rochester]

U.S. Marines landing in Da Nang, March 8, 1965.

[Surpmil]

Boy, if you bought the right stocks about that time you'd a been set for life. Congressmen probably did.

[browningautorifle]

I remember watching the footage of them coming ashore...

[SkyKid]

Shouldn't that be 60 years ago?
Heck I was 6 years old back then

[oldfoneguy]

In reality isn't it going to be 59 years?
Unless we're in the future and if that's the case how did I get here?

[SkyKid]

Yep you are right
guess that new math doesn't work so great

[72 usmc]

I wonder why no LVT P5 s. I was later and worked on these beasts(3rd Force Service Regiment 3rd FSR) :
Odd they actually floated....LVTP-5 amphibious Amphibious Personal Carrier (1956)

and we all loved the M14

[Littlejohn]

Looks like a couple of M76s in those photos.

[eb in oregon]

Looks like a couple of M76s in those photos.

Those would be M-79 Grenade Launchers I believe.

[ssgross]

I need to get an m1a now. The m14 is the only us service rifle I don't have an example of yet.