Yours truly on op with ARVN Counterparts, dry rice paddies southwest of Danang, PRC-25 tactical radio, rifle and cigarette, calling for routine extraction after two weeks humping the boonies.
Two of my teammates, "Paladin" (M79) and "Stretch" (M60) suppressing fire from a tree-line. Sometimes it's necessary to expose yourself to get the rounds on target. January 1971. You can see the 40mm HE round in midair, upper right.
Two more of my teammates, "RJ" and "Frenchy", full combat loadout, LZ Baldy, Quang Nam Province. Normally for rifles we carried about twenty 20-round mags. For the M79s, a bag for HE and another bag for lume and flechette rounds. We hated helmets so we never wore them. Combined Action units were fairly autonomous so uniform regs were largely ignored. We had grenade rings in our hats, our dog tags in our boots.
Me, postwar, salty NCO taking 5 in Cuba.
Two of my teammates, "Paladin" (M79) and "Stretch" (M60) suppressing fire from a tree-line. Sometimes it's necessary to expose yourself to get the rounds on target. January 1971. You can see the 40mm HE round in midair, upper right.
Two more of my teammates, "RJ" and "Frenchy", full combat loadout, LZ Baldy, Quang Nam Province. Normally for rifles we carried about twenty 20-round mags. For the M79s, a bag for HE and another bag for lume and flechette rounds. We hated helmets so we never wore them. Combined Action units were fairly autonomous so uniform regs were largely ignored. We had grenade rings in our hats, our dog tags in our boots.
Me, postwar, salty NCO taking 5 in Cuba.