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Link Posted: 1/22/2011 12:03:45 PM EDT
[#1]
Originally Posted By RTUtah:
Okay, here are some photos I pulled from Facebook; all photos belong to Lynne M. Black Jr.

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/7.jpg


Soviet-made .51-cal (12.7mm) AA gun among other captured munitions and small-arms.



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/2.jpg


This was one of the hooch maids at FOB 1. We took her to the firing range one day and she out shot everyone on the team. In this photo she is holding my CAR-15, which has a braided sling made from a couple of medical cravats. The two sections of rod taped to the barrel is a cleaning rod in case of jammed cartridges. If a cartridge got jammed in the breach we would put the rod down the barrel and jam it against a rock or tree to free the cartridge.


Also notice the trigger guard partially removed and taped up and out of the way.  Recon guys were some crafty SOBs.


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/4.jpg


RT Idaho loading up at FOB 1 for a Prairie Fire mission, 1968.



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/6.jpg

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/5.jpg


RT Idaho socked-in somewhere in the DMZ; lots and LOTS of NVA moved around in the valley below.



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/1.jpg


October 5, 1968 - RT Alabama lead by SSG James Stride (One Zero), Steve Englke (One One), and Lynne Black (One Two), with six VN Indig team members fought a North Vietnamese Division of 10,000 NVA for eight hours. Stride, Cuong, and Hoa were killed along with twenty-one other Army, Air Force, Marine, and Vietnamese air support personnel. The NVA suffered over 8,000 killed.

Colonel Jack Warren the Commander of Command & Control North awarded me the Silver Star, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart.

The History Channel did a one hour show as part of a series called Heroes Under Fire. The name of the show is Jungle Ambush.



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/3.jpg


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/8.jpg


General Stillwell inspects RT Idaho at FOB 1, 1968.



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/10.jpg


http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/11.jpg


Riding strings out of Laos.



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/9.jpg


Coming out of Laos on rope-ladders.  That is an almost impossible climb up into the chopper when it's moving at full speed to escape the small arms fire that is being thrown at you.  Cold is right! You're hands were frozen and like clubs.



http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r249/RTUtah/12.jpg


Heading back across the fence.


Those are amazing pictures. The guy in the shades is in a ton of pics it seems..Totally awesome.

Link Posted: 1/22/2011 12:40:20 PM EDT
[#2]
Originally Posted By b_rogers:
Those are amazing pictures. The guy in the shades is in a ton of pics it seems..Totally awesome.



His name is Nguyen Cong Hiep and was RT Idaho's senior Vietnamese interpreter; he was fluent in three languages including English, and understood the North Vietnamese dialect.  Hiep was also a certified BAMF.

Link Posted: 1/22/2011 9:42:39 PM EDT
[#3]
Thanks for those pics - they're great!  That string/ladder extract is crazy!  I've read about stuff like that, but....  
Link Posted: 1/23/2011 4:37:42 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Hntrman] [#4]
Link Posted: 1/23/2011 4:54:19 PM EDT
[#5]
Originally Posted By Hntrman:


http://AR-15AK-47
Link Posted: 1/23/2011 11:41:37 PM EDT
[#6]
Originally Posted By RTUtah:
Originally Posted By b_rogers:
Those are amazing pictures. The guy in the shades is in a ton of pics it seems..Totally awesome.



His name is Nguyen Cong Hiep and was RT Idaho's senior Vietnamese interpreter; he was fluent in three languages including English, and understood the North Vietnamese dialect.  Hiep was also a certified BAMF.



My father in law was in the 173rd airborne  3rd 502? IIRC  66-68 and was Friendly Fire wounded (5.56 to the lower back) at hill 875 Dak To.  His pictures are lost in boxes somewhere, but i will try to get him looking for them. A few combat shots from 875 after the hill was taken (not his, buddy took them) and some camp shots.

Link Posted: 2/9/2011 7:00:17 AM EDT
[#7]


not mine, but somehow still in service.
Link Posted: 2/9/2011 9:53:48 AM EDT
[#8]
Originally Posted By HaveBlue83:
<a href="http://img46.imageshack.us/i/img0559h.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2028/img0559h.jpg</a>

not mine, but somehow still in service.

Vietnam era M16A1. It's absolutely beautiful!
Link Posted: 2/9/2011 10:18:28 AM EDT
[#9]
i have more picts. I'll try to post them up.

we have 2. one is a hydra-matic/GM, the other is a colt.

the unit also has 2 1911A1's. remington rand from 1945, and a colt from 1943.
Link Posted: 2/9/2011 11:51:27 AM EDT
[#10]
Originally Posted By HaveBlue83:
i have more picts. I'll try to post them up.

we have 2. one is a hydra-matic/GM, the other is a colt.

the unit also has 2 1911A1's. remington rand from 1945, and a colt from 1943.


Please post!
Link Posted: 2/9/2011 5:11:23 PM EDT
[#11]
Originally Posted By HaveBlue83:
i have more picts. I'll try to post them up.

we have 2. one is a hydra-matic/GM, the other is a colt.

the unit also has 2 1911A1's. remington rand from 1945, and a colt from 1943.


Nice!  I especially like the Remington Rand 1911A1 from 45....particularly since I have one of that vintage.

CMS

Link Posted: 2/9/2011 6:15:39 PM EDT
[Last Edit: HaveBlue83] [#12]
SORRY for the iPhone grainy picts. we dont normally have cameras around.







pardon the non M16 picts. it's worth it tho....

Colt went to ANAD in 73, Remington did not. Both were FJA inspected.




Link Posted: 2/9/2011 6:53:30 PM EDT
[Last Edit: somebob] [#13]
Originally Posted By HaveBlue83:
SORRY for the iPhone grainy picts. we dont normally have cameras around.

<a href="http://img844.imageshack.us/i/img0556ls.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/9277/img0556ls.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img543.imageshack.us/i/img0554q.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/2392/img0554q.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img163.imageshack.us/i/img0550v.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/2654/img0550v.jpg</a>

pardon the non M16 picts. it's worth it tho....

Colt went to ANAD in 73, Remington did not. Both were FJA inspected.

<a href="http://img18.imageshack.us/i/img0538df.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5537/img0538df.jpg</a>

<a href="http://img810.imageshack.us/i/img0534o.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/4606/img0534o.jpg</a>


Thanks!  About that Hydra-Matic, is there forging flash on the front or back of the carry handle?  

(Edit)  Do you know the details to look for?  What kind of barrel is on it?  Look for Colt proof marks, maybe the upper was swapped out at some point etc.  I'm guessing you know what to consult: http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=123&t=241681
Link Posted: 2/9/2011 7:01:32 PM EDT
[#14]
Thanks much for the pictures, HaveBlue83.
Link Posted: 2/9/2011 7:02:45 PM EDT
[#15]
^^I would have to go and look at it again. being giddy while holding history doesn't lend me to be precise. LOL

hers a pict i have from the upper....I cant see any flash, but its a bad pic.




Link Posted: 3/2/2011 7:06:53 AM EDT
[#16]
Originally Posted By HaveBlue83:
^^I would have to go and look at it again. being giddy while holding history doesn't lend me to be precise. LOL

hers a pict i have from the upper....I cant see any flash, but its a bad pic.

<a href="http://img199.imageshack.us/i/img0549dx.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6083/img0549dx.jpg</a>




That's awesome to see those weapons still serving
Link Posted: 4/7/2011 1:53:52 AM EDT
[#17]
Here is a pic of my Dad 1/9th Cav.  1969/70 Vietnam  he was a LOH pilot.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/dragon25/165610_1401841786488_1845645920_755511_7889487_n.jpg
Link Posted: 4/7/2011 10:24:57 PM EDT
[#18]
Originally Posted By ctschatz:
Here is a pic of my Dad 1/9th Cav.  1969/70 Vietnam  he was a LOH pilot.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/dragon25/165610_1401841786488_1845645920_755511_7889487_n.jpg


For a LOH pilot, he goes around awfully well armed.

Link Posted: 4/8/2011 8:48:20 PM EDT
[#19]
Originally Posted By M-Forgery:
Originally Posted By ctschatz:
Here is a pic of my Dad 1/9th Cav.  1969/70 Vietnam  he was a LOH pilot.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/dragon25/165610_1401841786488_1845645920_755511_7889487_n.jpg


For a LOH pilot, he goes around awfully well armed.



Because they could.
Link Posted: 4/10/2011 4:36:25 PM EDT
[#20]
from the US Army Facebook page



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Link Posted: 4/22/2011 1:46:30 AM EDT
[#21]
Originally Posted By HaveBlue83:
^^I would have to go and look at it again. being giddy while holding history doesn't lend me to be precise. LOL

hers a pict i have from the upper....I cant see any flash, but its a bad pic.

<a href="http://img199.imageshack.us/i/img0549dx.jpg/" target="_blank">http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6083/img0549dx.jpg</a>




Awesome pix. I spy a many circles mag button!
Link Posted: 4/22/2011 2:47:31 PM EDT
[#22]
A new 652 is born!  What do you think?

Link Posted: 5/12/2011 5:41:17 PM EDT
[#23]
Aussies with war dogs (and 603s):







(With thanks to ColonelHurtz.)

Link Posted: 5/13/2011 12:54:50 PM EDT
[#24]
More Australian SAS photos:













Source: http://www.mvca.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1547
Link Posted: 5/14/2011 2:33:26 PM EDT
[#25]
have blue- if one of the 1911a1's you're calling a colt was fja inspected that makes it an ithaca or remington frame with a colt slide.
Link Posted: 5/17/2011 7:12:40 PM EDT
[#26]
Well, I've spent the better part of my shift at work looking at these pictures. Wish I'd taken some when I went to Iraq, I think the M-16 I was issued would have qualified based on the 3-prong flash hider alone. Yes, I was in the Air Force. I gotta find some pics of my dad when he was in Viet Nam. He would have liked looking at these.
Link Posted: 5/25/2011 1:09:50 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GI-45] [#27]
Some images that I've pulled from the films in my Vietnam War documentaries thread:
25th Infantry Division troopers, circa 1968. Note the 30-round magazine:




25th Infantry Division soldier firing an XM177E1, circa 1968:




US Army advisor with Colt 601, circa 1963-64. Note the waffle mag:






 
Link Posted: 5/27/2011 9:55:45 AM EDT
[#28]
Looks like an early, fully curved mag in the first pic. That's an E1 not an E2 though in the second pic. Got any more?
Link Posted: 5/27/2011 2:27:01 PM EDT
[Last Edit: GI-45] [#29]







Originally Posted By Morg308:




Looks like an early, fully curved mag in the first pic. That's an E1 not an E2 though in the second pic. Got any more?




Correction noted, thanks.






The 30-rounder caught my eye due to the relatively early date (from a documentary produced in 1968), and also that the soldiers were "regular grunts," not LRRPs or SEALs.






I'll post more as I watch more of those documentaries.
 
Link Posted: 5/29/2011 12:24:01 PM EDT
[#30]
Forgive me if these have been posted before.





Link Posted: 6/5/2011 9:43:43 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RTUtah] [#32]
Stumbled across these photos of SEALs while doing research on water-borne insertion techniques they employed along the Mekong.









And here's a small sample of what I'm writing to supplement my research:



He considered the face that stared back at him – splotchy and green, like that of a reptile’s but with big black circles around the eyes and long streaks from his jaw down his neck.

That’s me… but it doesn’t look like me.  I look like a fucking demon.  A recon demon.  He smeared his fingers into the black face paint and added a few more diagonal streaks through the green to break the form up.  A recon demon, he mused.

They all looked the same: him, Bruce, Nick, Hyuk and Nui and the others.  They were all painted to look like demons out of some heart-stopping nightmare.  The type of heart-stopping nightmare the NVA feared.  Frank wanted his team to be feared, needed them to be feared because in the Parrot’s Beak, they’d need all the edge they could muster.

That’s where they were heading.  The Parrot’s Beak.  Cambodia.
Link Posted: 6/5/2011 11:26:55 PM EDT
[#33]
RT - that's a great writing sample. As I told you before, I'd love to be one of your readers when you finish it. As to waterborne insertion techniques, seems like it'd be pretty much like this:

1. Jump off bow of PBR into hip deep mud loaded down with every damn weapon the Navy issues.
2.  Struggle to dry land.
3. Watch PBR slowly pull away and leave your ass behind enemy lines with hundreds of pissed off Vietcong and NVA regulars looking for you who would love nothing better than to skin you alive.
4. Proceed to target.

Those guys really had big brass ones. Again, great writing!
Link Posted: 6/6/2011 4:57:36 PM EDT
[#34]



Originally Posted By RTUtah:


Stumbled across these photos of SEALs while doing research on water-borne insertion techniques they employed along the Mekong.



http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r9/mercenary25/1171on0.jpg



http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/MARKHITCOM/VN%20field%20gear/b-3.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v679/vietnammarine/stoner/P1010003Large.jpg



http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/uploads//monthly_11_2010/post-5339-1288721133.jpg



And here's a small sample of what I'm writing to supplement my research:








He considered the face that stared back at him – splotchy and green, like that of a reptile’s but with big black circles around the eyes and long streaks from his jaw down his neck.



That’s me… but it doesn’t look like me.  I look like a fucking demon.  A recon demon.  He smeared his fingers into the black face paint and added a few more diagonal streaks through the green to break the form up.  A recon demon, he mused.



They all looked the same: him, Bruce, Nick, Hyuk and Nui and the others.  They were all painted to look like demons out of some heart-stopping nightmare.  The type of heart-stopping nightmare the NVA feared.  Frank wanted his team to be feared, needed them to be feared because in the Parrot’s Beak, they’d need all the edge they could muster.



That’s where they were heading.  The Parrot’s Beak.  Cambodia.


RT,



Just curious, but have you ever come across any photos of 604s being carried by SEALs? I've found several photos showing 604s being used by PBR crews, so I'm assuming that some may have been used by SEALs as well.





 
Link Posted: 6/6/2011 8:15:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RTUtah] [#35]
Originally Posted By GI-45:
RT,

Just curious, but have you ever come across any photos of 604s being carried by SEALs? I've found several photos showing 604s being used by PBR crews, so I'm assuming that some may have been used by SEALs as well.

 


Well considering SEALs and UDT units arrived in-country in 1962, I would have to assume that there are some photos of them with 604s floating around.  Strangely enough, I don't get too caught up in trying to figure out which M16 they're carrying since most of the guys I'm researching rolled with CAR-15s or sawed-off RPDs, etc. etc. (SOG recon).

Link Posted: 6/7/2011 12:12:34 AM EDT
[#36]
From the 5.56 Timeline, in May 1962:  (http://www.thegunzone.com/556dw-1.html)

The US Navy orders a small quantity of AR-15 rifles for service testing by its SEAL teams. Ultimately, 172 rifles are ordered for team use. (One source claims that SEAL Team Two's Lt. Ray Boehm used the open purchase system to procure 136 rifles straight from Colt, with 66 going to SEAL Team Two and the remainder to SEAL Team One.)


You can't tell from this picture, but the rifle with the XM148 has a partial fence lower:
'


602's, early 603's?





Here are some archive threads about Navy use of 604's (PBR sailors mostly):
http://beta.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=3&f=123&t=514450
http://www.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=3&f=123&t=447646
Link Posted: 6/14/2011 8:23:40 PM EDT
[#37]
Link Posted: 6/14/2011 8:25:38 PM EDT
[#38]
Link Posted: 6/15/2011 12:30:37 AM EDT
[Last Edit: b_rogers] [#39]
Originally Posted By TimJ:

Originally Posted By b_rogers:
Originally Posted By RTUtah:
Originally Posted By b_rogers:
Those are amazing pictures. The guy in the shades is in a ton of pics it seems..Totally awesome.



His name is Nguyen Cong Hiep and was RT Idaho's senior Vietnamese interpreter; he was fluent in three languages including English, and understood the North Vietnamese dialect.  Hiep was also a certified BAMF.



My father in law was in the 173rd airborne  3rd 502? IIRC  66-68 and was Friendly Fire wounded (5.56 to the lower back) at hill 875 Dak To.  His pictures are lost in boxes somewhere, but i will try to get him looking for them. A few combat shots from 875 after the hill was taken (not his, buddy took them) and some camp shots.


Dak To was the 503rd infantry, 2nd and 4th (IIRC) Bn....I was in 2/503rd in 1989 and the SMAJ of our Regiment (honorary) was SMAJ Okendo, he was at Dak To (and in WWII and Korea).....  



Yeah, I was going from memory from stuff hanging on the wall in his living room.

I asked him again about it recently.. I remember he had the round removed from his back a few years ago, as it was migrating close to his spine and looked like a lemon size tumor. He had it made into a neat bracelet that lets him spin it around and play with it.  I told him about the youtube video with the radio transmissions from that day and he said "I don't want to ever hear that"

He always told me it was a AK round, so he thought. He doesnt remember much from that day other than it was very dark and you couldn't see anything but muzzle flashes shooting at you from the bush and the ground, further up the hill, the canopy, from everywhere, and he was very, very afraid and didn't expect to make it off that hill alive. He kept falling down, twisting his ankle and knee from the snarl of trees and roots everywhere. He remembers the sounds of the rounds hitting the trees and bouncing around him. He was pinned down by a machine gun for several minutes in a crook of a fallen tree by himself. He started to lose it and was shaking uncontrollably, unable to reload his rifle. In his head he kept repeating something a very powerful man asked him when he was young, asking him "Dominick, would you rather be the fox or the lion? The lion is powerful, but the fox is elusive and clever" " He kept repeating the correct answer.. "I am the lion and the fox" and managed to get reloaded and calm down. Finally the NVA pulled back farther up the hill and he was able to get away and regroup.  They were trying to advance up to another bunker type thing that they were taking fire from and running, then the rest is gone. One straight through the calf, shrapnel from somewhere? and the round in his back.  Sounds like some movie shit, but I assure you, this guy doesn't BS, hes a stand up guy.

The VA doc didn't seem surprised at all that the slug in his back wasnt a enemy round.
Link Posted: 6/24/2011 4:16:59 PM EDT
[#40]
Here are some fine retro pics, crisp quality to...

Excuse me if they have been posted before



Link Posted: 6/24/2011 5:14:14 PM EDT
[#41]
Originally Posted By nougabol:
Here are some fine retro pics, crisp quality to...

Excuse me if they have been posted before

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u265/londerzeel/misc22.jpg

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u265/londerzeel/Farriorgunhelmetgasmask1-1.jpg

XM16E1 hotness! Nice first post, nougabol!
Link Posted: 7/22/2011 9:20:43 PM EDT
[#42]






















His name is Bobby Pruett, he was the 1-0 of MAC V SOG RT New York from December of 1971 to March of 1972. Photos are from Jason Hardy's book, SOG: Team History and Insignia of a Clandestine Army, Vol 2, and some of the previous pictures are available from other SOG books. Jason Hardy's SOG book is a fantastic read, and I recommend it.



Link Posted: 8/11/2011 4:22:23 AM EDT
[#43]
Link Posted: 8/11/2011 12:24:19 PM EDT
[#44]
Link Posted: 8/12/2011 3:16:02 PM EDT
[#45]
Originally Posted By Frens:
from the US Army Facebook page

<a href="http://img857.imageshack.us/i/immagine1bk.png/" target="_blank">http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/6789/immagine1bk.th.png</a>

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This looks to be a "rubber duck" and not an actual M16A1.
Link Posted: 8/23/2011 11:47:35 PM EDT
[#46]
Link Posted: 8/26/2011 11:12:19 PM EDT
[#47]
Another Air Force rifle: {note the lower}


.
Link Posted: 8/26/2011 11:21:12 PM EDT
[#48]
Originally Posted By osprey21:
http://i54.tinypic.com/2u7yqdf.jpg  


Semper Fi!!!
Link Posted: 9/4/2011 5:10:29 PM EDT
[#49]
Originally Posted By AMMOTECH:
Another Air Force rifle: {note the lower}
http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/070810-F-7289S-216.JPG

.


I would like to point out that all of the M16's I have seen in my two years in the AF have had A1 lowers
Link Posted: 9/26/2011 3:40:54 PM EDT
[#50]
Pretty cool vid I found of some guy explaining his M16, video says Burma... could be Hmong rebel

That 30 rounder's feeding lips  are real on the edge, ejection port cover is missing, bolt catch is broken off, buffer pin is... ?
Anybody go more more info just by looking at it ?

Hydramatic ? by looking at the markings



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqzFItaJ1uc&feature=related

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