Guest post by Jack Broz In 1969 I was a Navy Corpsman assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines in Vietnam. The week of March 25th 1969, Alpha was ordered to assist Delta 1/4 which had captured LZ Argonne near the border with Laos. Delta was being sniped at by an NVA .51 caliberContinue reading “Battlefield Luck Charm For Two Generations”
Category Archives: Armed Conflicts Worldwide
From the Footlocker: Silk Map Quilt
During World War II my grandfather was a pilot in the South Pacific. Being a pilot meant getting issued silk maps. Silk might sound like an odd material for a maps but it was for the durability and waterproof qualities (it gets wet but doesn’t break down like paper or cotton). Well silk, then asContinue reading “From the Footlocker: Silk Map Quilt”
Staff Sergeant Adelbert F. Waldron III made 109 confirmed kills
From The Giant Killer facebook page The man has never gotten the credit he deserves and I am always glad to see other talk about him. Rare photo of the man who is believed to be the deadliest sniper of the Vietnam war Adelbert Waldron: During his single deployment in Vietnam, Staff Sergeant Adelbert F.Continue reading “Staff Sergeant Adelbert F. Waldron III made 109 confirmed kills”
Weaponsman Wednesday: Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: N6CC
What’s that? It sounds like a ham callsign? And we think that’s what N6CC.com stands for, although the site breaks it out as Navy 6 Combat Coms. But what we were flagged to was the site author, Tim Sammons’s, stories of his service in the Navy on a forgotten class of small combatants, the Trumpy class PTF patrol boats.Continue reading “Weaponsman Wednesday: Wednesday Weapons Website of the Week: N6CC”
Captain Robert E Lee Mexican American War
Robert E Lee distinguishes himself in the Mexican American War.
M16 Rifle Maintenance Rifle M16A1 Field Expedients 1968 US Army
I love these old vintage training films.
Interview with SOG CCC Hatchet Force member Terry Cadenbach
Our pal. Bud Gibson has another great podcast interview with a SOG vet.
The SOG “green hornet” Amphetamine pill
Yes that is meth pills issued out to US Army Special Forces.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless, Said World War II’s Top US Military Leaders
Authored by Brian McGlinchey via starkrealities.substack.com The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of American history — that those twin acts of mass civilian slaughter were necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender, and spare a half-million US soldiers who’d have otherwise died in aContinue reading “Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless, Said World War II’s Top US Military Leaders”
USMC Scout Sniper Weapons of the Vietnam War
In the past months I have written a bit about the use of and primary rifles used by the USMC for sniping use in the Vietnam war. Now I would like to talk a little about them again along with some of the supporting (spotter) weapons and equipment used by typical sniper teams during theContinue reading “USMC Scout Sniper Weapons of the Vietnam War”
Scattered Shots 