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U.S. Marines landing in Da Nang, March 8, 1965.
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U.S. Marines landing in Da Nang, March 8, 1965.
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Boy, if you bought the right stocks about that time you'd a been set for life. Congressmen probably did.
I remember watching the footage of them coming ashore...
Shouldn't that be 60 years ago?:madsmile:
Heck I was 6 years old back then
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?
Yep you are right
guess that new math doesn't work so great:D
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
Looks like a couple of M76s in those photos.
I need to get an m1a now. The m14 is the only us service rifle I don't have an example of yet.
Those would be M-79 Grenade Launchers I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Littlejohn
So...the M14s set up with bipods are designated squad automatic weapons?
M14E2/M14A1Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
Selective fire version of the standard M14 used as a squad automatic weapon. Successor to the full-automatic M14 with a bipod and the never-issued M15. The developmental model was known as the M14E2. The model concept was developed by the United States Army Infantry School. The variant was known as the M14 (USAIB), after the initialism for "United States Army Infantry Board". The variant was issued in 1963 and redesignated as M14A1 in 1966.
It had a full pistol-gripped in-line stock to control recoil, a plastic upper forend to save weight, a muzzle compensator, the BAR sling, an M2 bipod, a folding metal vertical foregrip mounted under the forend of the stock, and a rubber recoil shoulder pad under the hinged butt plate. Although an improvement over the M14 when in full-auto, it was still difficult to control, overheated rapidly, and the 20-round magazine limited its ability to deliver suppressive fire.
Yes, I was aware of all that and these look to be standard rifles with the bipod. Wonder if they just kept it simple and used the bipod and FA selector? Second pic has the grenade launcher rifle, showing a selector shaft lock installed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Rochester
One of the few pieces of ancillary equipment I was unable to source here in Canada when I had all that.
Well, considering I was issued an M61E1 I've not paid much attention to the detachable rifle grenade launchers. They were already gone from general issue when I enlisted.