What is it about the Garand?

[levallois]

Didn't Tom Laughlin carry a Garand in "Billy Jack" too? Of course, he didn't need it with all that kung-fu stuff. Also there is the Gene Hackman movie that I can't remember the title to where he went back to Vietnam to find his son - he carried and used a Garand after their modern gear was confiscated. There were also Tommys and a BAR if I remember correctly?

What other movies were post-Korean War modern but where the hero used a Garand?

John

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[ltcboy]

Didn't Tom Laughlin carry a Garand in "Billy Jack" too? Of course, he didn't need it with all that kung-fu stuff. Also there is the Gene Hackman movie that I can't remember the title to where he went back to Vietnam to find his son - he carried and used a Garand after their modern gear was confiscated. There were also Tommys and a BAR if I remember correctly?

What other movies were post-Korean War modern but where the hero used a Garand?

John

Yes Billy Jack did have an M1 and Gene Hackman, aka., Col. Rhodes (Korean Marine vet) went back to Vietnam with Sailor (Randall "Tex" Cobb) to get his son in Uncommon Valor. Great Movie it was from 1983.

Mike