Cut off M1 Carbine? -- Yum! M-14's

[CINDERS]

Those chaps RCS look like MACSOG which explains their firepower requirements, however I did also see that they went out with VC weapons as well to confuse them (the VC) into thinking they were in a blue on blue contact!
My brother inlaw a VN vet who passed away in 2022 said you never forget the sound of an AK being wracked or the sound of them firing.
Pic of him in the back of a truck whilst as he said on his "Asian Holiday".

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[Sapper740]

Those chaps RCS look like MACSOG which explains their firepower requirements, however I did also see that they went out with VC weapons as well to confuse them (the VC) into thinking they were in a blue on blue contact!

Here's a pic for you Cinders of what I believe is the second ST Idaho which had to be rebuilt after the first strike team Idaho disappeared and was never heard from again. The trooper on the left is holding an AK and a cut down M79 grenade launcher. The trooper on the right wearing the custom made "Operator's vest" is the famous Lynne Black, I believe with an XM148 grenade launcher. For many of the "Over the fence" missions into Laos and Cambodia SF troopers went 'sterile' with CISO made equipment, Indig rucksacks and quite often with Swedish K guns, a 9mm SMG. This was done to give the U.S. government plausible deniability if the A team members were captured or killed.

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Also there was the Australian field mod of the SLR during Viet Nam. The SLR barrel was cut back to the front sight and modified to fire full auto. Sometimes the
L2A1 thirty round magazine was used plus other attachments. Called the "the bitch"