My Inland goes nicely with my Retro AR

Recent threads caused me to get my carbine out for a quick, affectionate fondle (don't tell my wife, she'll get jealous). I have been so preoccupied with my 1962 vintage Colt Model 601 repro, I have been neglecting my little Inland! Looking at old early 60s Vietnam pictures, I realize that my "duck hunter" pattern advisers camo I have coming would look just as correct with the M1 Carbine with upgrades, as a 601 Model Ar15!

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...2514x472-1.jpg

This is the type of early green stocked AR I am doing...
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...2437x357-1.jpg

Those are some tough looking guys. Very early 60's I would think.....Frank

They are AR-15 Model 601 (1/14" twist), project AGILE 1962, and Model 602 (1/12" twist) from around 1963. Advisers from the Pre-MACV/SOG days. Many were armed with M2 carbines because the indigenous forces. I knew one (my company 1st Sgt. in 1974), and he was a very tough man.

Dang, I could be looking at my biological father and not know it. Very strange.

J, here's some more. what's the story? Was your dad in country 62-64?

More of the early advisers with duck hunter, M2 Carbines, and 601 & 602s.

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Four more...


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The story is that I'm a "war orphan" that was put up for adoption after my father was killed in Viet Nam '62 or '63. Never got much more detail than that. I reckon I could find out more w/o hurting feelings now, but have just never felt a real need to pursue it. Just idle curiousity for me, and there's the possible stress imposed on any biological relatives at this late date. So...

It is never too late. My wife did not know for sure who her real father was. She finally found out at 54 years old, confirmed it with DNA, and met her brothers and sisters she did not know she had. (They look just like her). They did not know about her, either. It worked out awesome. In fact Debbie's entry into her biological father's family has been a uniting effect. Siblings that had not spoken in years are now involved with each other on a daily basis. A dysfunctional family is now unified. PM me, we should really talk. It has filled a void my wife never admitted she had. I've gotten pretty good on ancestry.com....

I turned 18 in '63 and had no idea what was going on in the 'Nam. I sure found out on Dec. 22, 1965: Greetings from the president of the United States.... Amazingly, even though I was drafted, I wound up in a stateside outfit and never went anywhere. And at that time, I was very much okay with that.

I am building an M16A1 replica like the guy in the second picture is holding (guy sitting down)
Interesting to see an M1 carbine next to it in the first picture, I have one of those also and never thought they were used side by side.