50 caliber machine gun inside a Marine CH-46D ... for America’s involvement in Vietnam. I am talking about the simplest of factors: two Marines, side by side, helping each other stay alive ...

While that may be true, it certainly took a tremendous amount of support from the air and the sea to give American soldiers and Marines ... machine gun. When U.S. troops began to deploy to Vietnam ...

Just yesterday Bill Black CPL, 0331, Machine Gun Team Leader Delta Company, 1st Bn, 4th Marines At the time of ... could carry the crew chief, a door gunner and maybe a stretcher or two.

About four decades ago, Standfast fought in the last battle of the Vietnam War ... gnawed at Marines like Standfast. The three lost men were members of a machine gun team assigned to his squad.

“It was like I went to Vietnam ... other Marines would drop their dog tags into a wicker basket. On the chopper, Mr. Wilmot usually kept at least 3,000 rounds in his M60 machine gun, because ...

In the spring of 1965, within weeks of 3,500 American Marines arriving in ... “[Twenty-year-old gunner, Pfc. Wayne] Hoilien was pouring machine-gun fire at a second V.C. gun position at the ...

The Marines realized the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN ... he jumped into a foxhole and found his M60 machine gun, his "A" gunner and the gun's ammunition replenished. Hernandez then retook ...

May 29, 2007: For the last two years, the U.S. Marine Corps ... machine-gun." U.S. Army Special Forces pioneered the development of the 5.56mm light machine-gun four decades ago, when they obtained ...

Marines on patrol ... for heroism during the Vietnam War. (Courtesy photo) Lance Cpl. James H. Stogner was a young 18-year-old Marine ammo humper serving with a machine gun team in Vietnam.

Taking over as gunner, Grantham ran into a nearby building to support another squad of Marines under fire. While returning fire with his M60 machine gun ... brutality of the Vietnam War in ...

Charles Armitage can easily remember the date his heart stopped beating during the Vietnam War ... s birthday. A Marine Corps infantryman assigned as the machine gunner for Mike Company ...