“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 ...

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 ...

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.