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    Quote Originally Posted by painter777 View Post
    Have seen many pictures of 'Modified' carbine stocks.
    The NVA apparently liked them too. I've seen several versions of what they did that looked like these.
    Regards, Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by browningautorifleicon View Post
    The NVA apparently liked them too. I've seen several versions of what they did that looked like these.
    Like this one here, Jim

    Unknown Date: Ho Chi Minh with VC Guerilla pointing to M2 selector lever.

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    I think they see it's a hand stamped!

    Sorry just had to.

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    Here is Bring Back M2 that a Vietnam Soldier got caught with. It doesn't say what happened to him. I wonder if I can chase this story down where I found it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by painter777 View Post
    it's a hand stamped!
    So...they realize it needs BATF paper? Now they're worried?
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    I was in IFFV

    It was kind of a catch-all command that they used when things got bigger faster. When I arrived in May 1966 we were attached to the 1st Cav. Went from there to MACV which was country wide. when that got too big it went to corps size control. For II Corps up in the highlands and coastal provinces Khan Hoa, Binh dinh, etc. It became IFFV , down south they had 2FFV. Maneuver battalions were 25 Div 101st 1st Cav. 4th Div replaced the 25th which went south. There were single units that were used in IFFV , 50th Inf a track unit was use a lot up by Bong Son area. My guess is that these guys are engineers, arty or something other than Infantry. We used to wear jungle fatigues with absolutely nothing on them, no patch, rank nothing, but infantry usually has the CIB on their blouse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DaveHH View Post
    We used to wear jungle fatigues with absolutely nothing on them, no patch, rank nothing, but infantry usually has the CIB on their blouse.
    Good points Dave, that's the sort of stuff not written in these Wiki details...
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    I was north of there a year later... It was possible back then to trade for or buy a variety of weapons if you were in rear areas - so you might run into almost any sort of odd materiel... I kept a sawed off shotgun with a musette bag with a hundred rounds just for my jeep to keep anyone from jumping on board (I was out and about occasionally by myself.... just south of Hue). NO it wasn't a particularly good idea - and I didn't learn until years later how little I knew about shotguns or tactics back then... Any time we came into contact with spooks, though, we always knew who they were just by their weaponry (they were the only folks in my area that had Uzi's).

    I pretty much figured anyone actually using weapons in regular units wouldn't ever have bothered with some of the exotic stuff you'd find in rear areas - but I could be wrong...
    Remember the accepted figure during that era was seven personnel in rear areas for every one actual combat soldier out on the pointy edge of things...

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    Quote Originally Posted by lemaymiami View Post
    It was possible back then to trade for or buy a variety of weapons if you were in rear areas
    That was what I was referring to earlier. Still sort of that way...
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    It sure does look like this Short M2 was sought after by some Vietnam Soldiers. One Soldier is Proudly Showing off his and the other guy is looking at his like he just acquired one or maybe traded for it and looking it over and getting ideas to go get some.

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