Vietnam

What an inane thread, you should try killing yourself

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>>28437120
>Try finding a Vietnam photo cooler than this
Here you go

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Namthread is a go?

M16 is more accurate?
AK is more reliable?
Bitch, please.

>>28437120
Does anyone have any photos of Mac 10's being used in combat? I've heard that some were used during Vietnam but I've never seen any concrete evidence

>>28437120
Was the G3 ever used in nam?

>>28437342
Everything was used in Nam'

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>>28437120
Glad there is a new Nam thread.
Is there any tips/tricks in modifying or altering M-56 web gear to be... well, better.
One i can think of is changing the alice clips so that the smooth sides rests again your hips and that is alot better.
Friend was in vietnam and he said that NOBODY ever looked up into the trees. So that might be a good place to hide or look in general.

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>>28437547
Also here is some picture my buddy brought back

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>>28437351

obligatory

>>28437120
What is this? A cool pic for ants?

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>extendo

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>>28437120
Found one.

>>28437868
Is that Moot?

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>>28437120
Yes I can

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>>28437900

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>>28437897
Maybe

>more extendos

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/r/ing the pic of the navy guy loading an M14 with a foregrip. Ya'll know what i b talking about.

>>28437342
Maybe the CETME was..Who knows.

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>>28437930
One of the best pics around

Which is the best tiger stripe?

>>28437966
That hair is fockin flawless m8

>>28437974
>Which is the best tiger stripe?
The best is actually woodland camo and dirty ODs.
See:
>>28437917

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From a museum I visited in agent orange land .

>>28437336
Fake

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Is this a new Vietnam thread? I just read a story in a book about SOG that I thought you guys might like to hear

>1965, Vietnam War

>Pentagon has authorized MACV-SOG to conduct operations over the border into Laos as part of Operation Shining Brass

>SOG Recon Team Alaska is inserted into the Laotian wilderness to gather intelligence on the Ho Chi Minh trail

>Overcast skies and rainy conditions provide good cover for the team despite the high levels of activity; however, RT Alaska is happened upon by an NVA patrol; the patrol is eliminated, but the team lost one of its indigenous personnel and was forced into E&E mode

>RT Alaska spends four days evading enemy search parties; the NVA presence increases daily, until finally, contact becomes unavoidable

>RT Alaska is pursued by a large NVA element; severely outnumbered, they are forced to retreat up a hill and into a large patch of elephant grass

>RT Alaska's One-Two radios the USAF forward air controller circling the area in an old Cessna O-1 Bird Dog and requests tac air and an immediate extract

>Meanwhile, the NVA have surrounded Alaska's position; rather than pursue them into the grass however, they set the thicket on fire with flamethrowers, in the hopes of forcing the team into the open

>Coughing against the smoke and forced to switch positions several times within the thicket, Alaska nevertheless refuses to exit the grass

>A pair of F-105s begins strafing the NVA with 20mm cannon fire and bombs; the NVA refuse to retreat, and begin firing upon the thicket and the CAS birds

>At some point, an H-34 Kingbee helicopter, piloted by Cowboy, one of SOG's South Vietnamese Air Force pilots, lands right in the middle of the thicket, despite the flames and heavy enemy fire

>Aside from the one man killed in the initial firefight, every member of RT Alaska is extracted alive and unharmed

This was one of SOG's very first recon missions. And that isn't even the craziest story I've heard about them.

>>28437137
Van Darkholme?

>>28437120
oh this is perfect.

taking a course on the US in Vietnam. Any good topics to do my paper on?

Im leaning towards the air war or to the tactics of the US armed forces during search and destroy missions.

Im not asking to be spoon fed, but want input in what would be a good topic.

Maybe operation phoenix (though I don't have much info on it)

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My favorite plane aesthetically

>>28438661
How bout the fact we shouldn't have been there in the first place

>>28438742
Shutup hippie

>>28437120
I thoroughly enjoy going through my dad's marine induction yearbook.

>tfw marksmen.
>landmine - guam - refused home and landmine again - guam - died from anesthesia.

>will post pics if want

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>>28437120

This one looks less staged and more authentic.

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>>28437120
Right in the feels

>>28438917
>>will post pics if want
Yes, please!

>>28437312
That is so fucking important that you never saw any evidence. Call the goddamn DOD, basement Cheetos muncher needs proof. Go fuck mcnigerater up his nigger ass

>>28438944
I hope those guys survived and returned home to a generous retirement.


Nah, they all dismembered and died in pain.

:'(

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>>28437120

>>28439012
we don't know he might have been a rapist who shot and killed women and children

>>28438661
The disconnect between the CIA's estimation of the south's abilities and the policies that backed them.

Or maybe
Ho Chi Minh's entreaty to have the the US back the North, in the 1950s.

>>28439133
>The disconnect between the CIA's estimation of the south's abilities and the policies that backed them.
ooooh that sounds interesting. Might have to look into it to see if there's enough scholarly articles to do a project on it.

I'll keep the theme in mind and look into CIA operations in Vietnam

>>28438956

look at the feel in his eyes

>>28437281
Is that a starlight scope?

I don't know much or seen much of pre gulf war equipment so please enlighten me

>>28437966
Never knew Kaz served in nam

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>>28439161
Here's a freebie:

Not 100% accurate, but that's where the paper comes in.

>>28437917
Anyone know where I can get AR handguards like that?

>>28437917
>FAL
>Underbarrel GL
>ERDL

muh dikkkkk

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This happened & was actually dropped on the enemy.

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>>28439301
It's called "The Bitch" - it was a common field modification for the SASR.

>Cut it down.
>Make it full giggle.
>Knick a GL off the merrycans.
>Remove unnecessary furniture.
Then proceed to kill everything in sight.

>>28439299
They look like heat shields - probably impossible to get nowadays, but it should be easy to nigger rig using the heat shield off on an 870, and a slim AR barrel shroud as a base.

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Look at this fly motherfucker.

>>28439324
>>28439301
Also, it supposedly sounded like a fucking .50 going off due to the shorter barrel.

>>28439353
>Cut down RPD
Yeah, that could do some damage...

>>28438944
Dat Western W49

>>28439353
I'm confused, it looks like that has both a drum mag and is belt fed.

>>28439532
As opposed to an M249, then?

Belts gotta go somewhere.

>>28439532
Type RPD in google.

>>28439321
I think i remeber the context of the pic. Toilet was dropped due to a 1 bilion US dollars spent on vietnam war?

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This brotha not fucking around.

>>28439011
Calm your tits you edgelord faggot, I just want to see some mac10 pictures in Vietnam.

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>>28439214
Don't you know? Diamond Dogs was all over that shit.

>>28439555
>>28439737
I'm apparently just retarded. I've seen the canvas bags for M249s before but because it was made out of metal i somehow thought it would be different.

>>28439825
That and I always forget there are belts which dont disintegrate.

>>28437892
Hat doesn't match, not impressed.

>>28438362
>H-34 Kingbee helicopter
>I used to ride one of these things to a drilling ship
>sounded like a racecar
>had an open driveshaft spinning overhead inside it
>loved that old bird

>>28439130
you say that like its a bad thing

>>28440138
Those Kingbees they used were old even back then. They leaked hydraulic fluid constantly, their inner workings were exposed in the troop compartment, and they usually weren't armed with anything more than old WWII-surplus M1919 machine guns. Despite all that, the early recon teams loved them. They were tough as nails, and tall enough that you could set one down against a slope for a hillside extract without having to worry about damage to the main rotor.

Even more loved than the birds were the pilots. South Vietnamese Air Force, mostly. Very flamboyant, and the bravest sons of bitches most of those men had ever met.


Still, for all of that, I'm sure there weren't many complaints when they switched over to modified UH-1s.

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MAS 49/56

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>Lt. Col. A. Peter Dewey
>killed by the Viet Minh on September 26, 1945,
>they thought he was French

>>28441204
He looks pretty French.
And I'm not even VC.

>>28439353
That's a Rhodie...

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>>28439011
Talk about overreacting

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>>28441379
No this is a rhodesian.

Explain the jungle fatigues and M56 webbing.

Thread theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Beda3kFNjo

>>28437120
That picture has a lack of F-4 Phantoms, thus is not a cool vietnam photo.

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>French 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment, Hanoi 1950

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>A French Naval Aviation Grumman F8F Bearcat dropping napalm on Viet Minh, November 1953, Operation Mouette

>>28439401
Damn, i wish i had one.
All i ever find is cheap Pakistani knock offs
Very underrated knife.

>>28441403
Now THAT is a streetsweeper.

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>>28441423
>video title it ain't me
>triggered

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>French supply drop, Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954

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>Capt James "Earthquake McGoon" B. McGovern, Jr.

>died flying CIA missions for the French during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954

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>>28437897

mind : blown

>>28439189
>literally the filename

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>>28437120
>>28437892

He looks a lot like Woody Harrelson.

>>28439774
>According to Squadron Historian Holt Livesay, on 4 November on the last mission of the 1965 cruise, CDR Clarence W. Stoddard, Jr., Executive Officer of VA-25 "Fist of the Fleet", flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 "Paper Tiger II" from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese, It was to commemorate the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped. This bomb was unique because of the type... it was a toilet!

>>28438362
A hell of lot of SOG missions were crazier than any bollywood action film.

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>>28437120

>>28437911
mother fucker looks happy as shit

Must be My Lai

>>28437646
this is a picture of some NZ SAS guy you fucking retard

>>28438362

John Plaster's book is fucking awesome.

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>French Marines posing with Lebel Model 1886s, Tonkin, Vietnam, 1888

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>>28438406
Fuck you.

>>28437133
>inane
that's my trigger word
it's like 2011 all over again

I have never found what the goal for victory was in vietnam. Best I can conclude is that we were protecting the south from invasion by the NVA?

Was the plan to break the NVAs back, and have them surrender?

>>28442526
The plan was to succeed where the French failed after a US policy U-turn on communists that they supported in WWII.

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Not Nam' but still badass.

>>28442526
The goal was a negotiated settlement like the one that ended the Korean War.

>>28442773
The French already did that though in 1955 with the Geneva Conference, in fact it's the same negotiated settlement that ended the Korean war.

>>28442044
>died flying CIA missions
He's a big guy.

>>28442250
You can't be serious bruh. Everyone knows the SOG 1st Oogabooga Amphibious squadron were issues mark seventeens. Fucking noguns.

>>28442387
No fuck you leather head!

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>>28443136
4u

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>you will never be a French commando strutting through the streets of Saigon with defeated Japanese soldiers saluting you

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>>28438661
Perhaps the Vietnamese perspective of Americans and how it changed from before the war, during the war, and to the present day. For some reason I cannot fathom they seem to like us a lot today despite everything that happened. Another interesting tidbit is that Ho Chi Minh liked to smoke American cigarettes and drink Heineken (the last one may not be true).
>>28441204
If I remember correctly, wasn't this the guy who was driving through Hanoi (or Saigon, can't remember) at night and the Viet Minh ambushed his car, and then later apologized because they didn't know he was American? Up until a certain point HCM really wanted us to back him and we had OSS guys with them for a bit. If FDR had lived, he may have gone against the French and approved of an independent Vietnam. Or not, what-ifs leave too much to the imagination.
>>28442384
Jesus, were the French in that bad of shape to issue their guys outdated gear like that? Also do you have any more of the French in 'Nam?
>>28442526
Keep South Vietnam intact, stop the VC, stop NVA incursions from the North, Laos, and Cambodia all while not going to a full war setting and with extremely vague immediate goals, oftentimes nonexistant.
>>28437120
I've got an Aussie with a FAL, does that count?

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>>28443600
In the meantime I'll add some more pics.

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>>28443600
The Lebel Model 1886 was pretty cutting edge fuck everything else, they are French Colonial Marines not the French army.

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>>28443664

>>28442219
>tfw you will never ride down the Perfume river setting fire to VC huta with flaming arrows

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>>28437699

>>28443813
Why does French military equipment always look so... weird and silly?

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>>28443705

>>28443600
that's a pretty long CLIP

>>28443600
>For some reason I cannot fathom they seem to like us a lot today despite everything that happened
It's simple really.

1)It's ancient history for a lot of Vietnamese people. It was a long time ago and most people are over it or were born after it had ended.

2)USA helps keep China in check. Vietnam will always hate China more than anybody.

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>>28443864

>>28443876
I would expect more animosity given the amount of people that died, and shit like My Lai. We were at war for over a decade, then we embargoed them for about two more. And yet relations have never been better.

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>French soldiers in Tonkin, c.1890


>>28443844
They are French.

>>28443600
They like us because Clinton thawed relations with Vietnam, plus ever since the US left Vietnam. China has been an ever growing threat to the Vietnamese. They fought one war and had a skirmish with them. So the Vietnamese have to deal with something more threatening and thus don't have time to think about the war they fought against the US and France

What makes the west more likable is that although we fought them, we were a foreign power (so when we left from a military point of view, we really DID leave) and because we basically put the conflict behind us.

Plus the US just lifted its arms embargo on Vietnam two years ago, which means that we're going to probably start selling them western equipment once Russia's alliance with China becomes a dealbreaker ( e.g. Russia doesn't want to give more equipment to Vietnam for fear of angering china) for Vietnamese purchase of Russian equipment

>>28443876
They HATE Chinese there. A guy I met while there gave me a huge lecture on how they hate Chinese and how Chinese who go there are treated like shit.

>>28443286
Leather MAN.

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>>28443900

>>28443912
So basically, we're going to become the buddies HCM always wanted us to be?

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>>28438944
>tfw you wil never operate innanam with an Obrez M14

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>>28443926

>>28439280
DESU we should have backed Mao after the Sino Soviet split. As bad as we knew communism could be, it wasn't our job to fight it for them. Let them go commie first and experience the hell, then slowly bring them back to a moderate position.

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>French Colonial Marine Infantry Officer in Vietnam, circa 1919

>>28437120
How about finding one more that ten pixels wide?

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>>28443951
We did back them, it just took a little longer for us to figure out how to leverage the split.
>>28443950

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>FFL, c1953

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>>28443970

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>>28444032

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Fucking faggy French.

>>28443926
Basically.

Russia is really trying to hold onto Vietnam as an ally, but geopolitics will mean that it will slowly shift towards the US and its pacific allies.

Im probably over estimating, but expect them to start flying F35's (or other western fighters) as of 2025

>>28437281
dat gun
dat scope
dat grenade launcher

>>28443951
There's that assumption that all communism is created equal.

Initially, Ho Chi Minh wanted to build a democracy, because, he wanted American support a whole hell of a lot more than Russian.

As mentioned, Vietnamese Hate the Chinese. That gets even easier when they've just killled 80 million peasants.

>>28437966
>dat hair
He's like Dirty Harry.
With an M1A.
On a fucking ship.
With mad operator skills.
My dick is literally diamonds. It hurts so much.

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>>28437930
I have two

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>>28437930

>>28443940
That's an M1 carbine you tard.

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>Moroccan Colonial Marine in Vietnam.

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>>28444171
Thats a XM177E2 you nerd
Not a M14

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>Vietnamese Soldiers at the Battle of Ypres 1916

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>>28439824
What shotgun is that?

>>28438635
a bottle of oil in his helmet band?

>>28444205
shit I read wrong, I thought he said M16

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>>28444242
That or insect repellent. He was a M60 operator so im gonna assume it was oil. That shit was extremely common brah

>>28444242
That pig ain't gonna oil itself, anon.

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First female reporting casualty in war died in the first year. She was kinda dumb goin with the marines desu, those guys always had it hard

>>28443600
It was closer to dawn, and his jeep was no longer flying a U.S. flag as was his normal practice. Ho accepted responsibility, but provided no details. Just as likely Dewey was killed by English (Gurkha) forces in the area.

>>28444242
Yeah, guys used to strap all sorts of things to their helmetbands: packs of cigs, deathcards, stripper clipazines of 5.56, and bottles of LSA like in that pic. There were concerns over the white bottles compromising the effectiveness of the helmets' camo so the clear bottles were discontinued and manufactured in OD green instead

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I always liked gunboats from vietnam.

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>>28444365
Especially with flamethrowers.

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>Sgt Guillou (1st platoon / 4th Coy/ 2nd BEP)

>>28444372
Looks Early war... what the fuck kind of sole is that??? Dosent look like panama or vibram

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>>28444402

>>28444432
There are French during the First Indochina War.

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Vietcong guerrilla holding SKS

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>French clearing a Viet Minh tunnel

>>28444458
They*

Post marky mark ty

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>>28444576
>marky mark

>>28439189
>please enlighten me
exactly

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>>28444432
Did somebody say soles?!

>>28437120
If the Stoner 63A was so good, then why did it get shit canned?

>>28444593
Yes he was a true hero in da nam

>>28444620
The seams and heel would print throught if the mud was deep enough lol. They shoulda made guys who hade size 5-7 wear these types so that it would work perfectly

>>28444683
I love how people say women can't handle guns. Most women can shoot a nugget easily. Many will flinch but that can be corrected.

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>French Weapons

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>>28437917
>Muzzle in the fucking dirt
AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!

>>28444720
He looks like the french john wayne.

>>28444683

> tfw you will never have a qt Viet Cong gf who will make you banh mi and shoot nuggets

Fuck life, man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAxMGyshRkk

>>28444668

> get a bunch of 6'7" fuckers
> put them in proportionate footprint boots
> have them tromp around innaboonies
> the NVA thinks they're fighting goddamned sasquatch

>>28444361
Neat. I was thinking the same thing about the picture right about it with the razor blade and whatever else in the band >>28438623 Glint for days.

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>FFL being fags

>>28437281
Jesus, how heavy were those fucking things. I mean considering the stalight scope looks about the same size of fuggin tank shell I'm assuming it wasn't like carrying a can of coke

>>28444761
It's simple anon, you clean the barrel with REAL FN NATO.

>>28444775
>Make moi day, le pilgrim

I've got essentially nothing to contribute to this thread aside from the fact that Vietnamese people are absolutely fucking based. I just got back from a wedding of a good friend (Viet exchange student) I met in university. I stayed in Ho Chi Minh City for the most part and nearly every person, young or old, was so incredibly nice to me. I had a particularly good conversation with a friend of the bride's about how our grandfathers likely fought against each other at the Tet Offensive in May of 1968 and ended up getting drunk together in 2015. Shit was so surreal and cool.

10/10 will be going back again

>>28445004
Australia dominated in the jungle with every thing they learned in ww2

>>28442376
I'm re-reading it right now. Surprised somebody knew where that story was from.

>>28442175
The next big war movie really should be about them. Guarantee people would say the stories depicted were exaggerated though.

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I was in 'Nam too guys

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Laos is close enough.

>>28444620
Oh, I remember these. CISO cooked them up for MACV-SOG after a few recon teams were tracked by the NVA via their bootprints.

The first solution to that was to wear Ho Chi Minh sandals over the boots. For some reason that didn't pan out.

Then came these cockamamie things. They didn't last long. They were uncomfortable and had zero traction.

Then when the NVA started wearing bata boots, which were basically, for lack of a better term, militarized sneakers, SOG followed suit. But that never fully caught on either.

Finally they just decided to put a pair of socks over their boots whenever they had to cross trails or shallow streams.

For every simple and effective solution, there are five crazy ideas that preceded it. Sure makes for interesting reading though.

>>28444626
Politics.

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>>28444626
Because it was fairly mechanically complex, and you basically had to keep it dripping with LSA at all times. Probably an exaggeration, but you get the idea.

It was excellent for special operations, but not for line troops. Weapons that only see limited issue of that kind tend not to stick around, regardless of quality.

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>>28445469
I remember reading about a former VC who claimed that they legitimately feared the Aussies in the jungle, said they often managed to anticipate ambushes a lot better than US soldiers at the time.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu#Trench_warfare

The French got their shit pushed in hard even with USAF/CIA operations helping them.

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>>28445667
That's what happens when you choose a shit position and grossly underestimate your enemy. The French commander of the artillery an heroed after he figured out that his own arty could not counter the incoming Vietminh arty.

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>>28445092
Well, the PVS-4 weighed about 4 pounds, so the PVS-2 is about the same.

SOG pretty much only used them for roadwatch missions or other things involving static positions and low light conditions.

They actually had night vision goggles available to them, but they had shit batterly life, required an IR light source, and projected light onto your face, which could possibly give away your position at night. Most of the guys went without them. After a few nights in the bush, most of them could see fairly well in the dark anyway. Better to pack more food and ammo instead.

>>28445781
>Piroth was critically wounded during an ambush though he remained in command until he was eventually evacuated to Saigon, where his arm was amputated without anaesthesia

>>28442219
thats pretty badass

>>28445656
Partly true. They tended to fear Australian infantry more than US infantry for that reason.

However, the South Koreans commanded the same level of fear. And the special ops forces from all three nations inspired outright terror.

In particular, the US Navy SEALs and Australian SASR were basically thought of as murderous ghosts who appear from nowhere, kill everything in sight, and melt back into the jungle. It wasn't far from the truth.

The Army's Special Forces and LRRPs were afforded a high level of respect as well.

MACV-SOG's recon teams and Hatchet Forces must've been viewed as some relentless destructive force. Somebody certainly thought so. There was a bounty on the heads of every recon man at one point.

>>28443844
The open neck makes the face look silly above all the equipment. Netting on the already wide looking helmets makes them look even larger.
Also, the bags are literally all hanging over the dick, jesus christ.

met a guy who i though was just an older hippy
>volunteered for 3 tours
>did forward scouting and recon

respect level went past 9000 after i got to talking to him about his service
>said he heard a hell of a noise up a head in the jungle
>they all though it was NVA building a camp
>call in air support or artillery?
>bombed an elephant
he felt bad about it

>said the vietcong had a unique smell
>aussie were badass'
>he took a group of them to S.F. on leave
>no one paid for a drink the whole time
Cali used to be pretty based he said

>>28439824
Is there an unedited, larger version of this pic?

>>28445003
>tfw you will never be an action figure innajungle
why even live

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I go through this entire thread, and nobody posted the coolest 'nam picture. For shame /k/

>>28444242

Skeeter spray. You put it in your boots to get a medical profile and try not to get caught by your platoon sergeant.

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>>28446258
>mfw

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>>28437120
300% cooler

>>28445592
What rifles? They look like some last-ditch thrown together thing

>browsing /k/
>saw tiger stripe camp
>immediately entered thread

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>>28446401
reverse image search has succeeded. MAS-36
Looks kinda funky

>>28446401
It's the bolt action rifle the French gave to it's colonial defence forces.

>>28438742
Stupid faggot. Go suck Stalins cock,

>>28445092
The sight weighs about 6 pounds, the rifle is around 7 and the launcher is around 4.

So my guess is at around 17-18 pounds worth of rifle. It wasn't meant to be hauled around, that particular rifle was used by USAF security forces for base security and perimeter defense so it was operated from a fixed position.

>>28444715
are you a fucking retard?

>>28441403
>you will never carry a sawed off RPD in short shorts

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Before you disregard me as an edgy retard hear me out.
Nam has to be one of the most interesting conflicts of all time and I wish that I was a part of it, in the field, or that a modern conflict of similar merit would arise.
I am in no way discounting those that died but listen, look through these photos, these men were given the orders to kill as many of those slants they could and that gave way to all these cut down, modified, mall ninja'd to fuck out guns that make my dick harder than diamonds, not to mention the CAS aircraft developed by taking civilian craft and strapping rockets and machineguns on them, fucking brilliant. On top of that tanks were in a power struggle because of the Cold War, we needed good tanks but they had to be able to fight inna jungle. That's another reason why Nam is so fucking neat to read about, the jungle. A jungle is a force of nature imo, not a location, something that military cant just change no matter how much gasoline Bomber Harris arclights into the vicinity and the NVA showed that. The jungle has every battlefield imaginable, rivers, hills, mountains, deserts, fields, you name it.
And to top it all off fucking psyops. Psyops had to be some of the most ridiculous shit, repeating chants of dead people to spook the nva into surrendering is genius.
Sorry if I come off as edgy I was about to go to bed before this thread popped up.

>>28439665
What unit were these guys?
>>28443940
uh senpai I got news

>>28445072
That nigga on the right, is he in a kilt? An operator kilt? If so 10/10 fucking badass

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I have a few in my vietnam folder that I don't see here. Dumping.

respect to both sides, well at least the infantry

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>>28446401
MAS 36 para version, the stock is of a different color

>>28447109
They were draftees doing their best to survive the next year. What you imagine it was nothing like what it was.

>>28444269
for a second, I thought that the black dot at the right of this was a casing ejecting after that little puke NDed and that DI is just staring lasers through him

>>28444502
I chortled

>>28444720
Bill Murray?

>>28444775
>Jean Ouaine

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>>28437120
Operating with levis

>>28442656
That's pretty gay, but what can you expect from the navy

>>28447225
Ahh, that's why it looks so stupid. Thanks

>>28446441
French fag here.
Smooth action and fucking accurate piece of history. Handloads almost mandatory nowadays.

>>28447225
Same french fag. The funky stock is actually an under folder.

>>28437966
Not Nam, that's 90s Delta force or something like that I believe.

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>The British started the Vietnam war when they ordered the surrendered Japanese to rearm to fight Ho Chi Minh in September 1945

>>28444936
Btw that is Nixon meeting French Union soldiers.

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>French surrendering to the Vietnamese

>>28448548
Cool, I see the cutout for the trigger guard now. That explains the big pin above the trigger.

>>28447270
And that's why the ingenuity and creativity astounds me you fucking sperg.
Tripfags not even once.

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>>28445032
That's an army can opener, not a razor blade. Not to be an autist, just heads up.

>>28447270
Most of the guys who fought in Vietnam were volunteers. If you want draftees just trying to survive, you're looking for World War II.

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>>28443950
All I want in life is to operate in tightly fitting tiger stripe camies and a CAR-15
>you will never be LRRP inna Nam

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My grandfather fought in Vietnam, albeit it was driving French colonialists out in the first Indochina war. He fled to the South afterwards. He never liked the communists, but he makes his gripes with the US government known now.

>>28443600
And yet I hear now we have great relations with Vietnam. Tourism and pressure from China maybe? I know their army does joint exercises with the Oregon Nattys regularly.

>>28443912
Does someone have a link to that video of the Vietnamese guy screaming his head off while he takes forever to burn a Chinese flag

>>28446386
I wear his memorial bracelet

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>>28437120
Look at this! Look at him!

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>>28437120

I kinda can.

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>>28448620
Hell yeah its the 90's you see those fucking oakley razorblades?

>>28444201
Are you blind or mentally handicapped?
That's a famas

>>28437966
I fucking love the olive drab one colour things, are they flight suits or something?

>>28444328
>those guys had it hard
That might be why she chose to go with the marines. The right story is worth the risks for most war reporters.

>>28439532
My dad used them. They load by belt or by magazine

>>28437699
Muffled It ain't me starts playing

>>28449862

what's Peter North doing with a revolver?

>>28438661

Dunno, but read A Better War by Lewis Sorley if you haven't already. Also Vietnam: The Necessary War by Michael Lind if they aren't already on your reading list.