All of these weapons are individual (though the M60 was considered crew served) _direct fire_ weapons. Mortars are indirect fire weapons and are not easily portable,
I was Field artillery US Army 2/77FA light artillery from 2014 to 2017 thank you for your service brother. I carried the base plate and many many many 105mm rounds and yes mortar rounds are heavy too I'm sure. Thank you for your service brother ❤ God bless you brother ❤
I was a Marine in Vietnam in 1968. Trained as an 0311( rifleman) and 0341 (81 mm motorman) prior to being sent to Nam...never used the mortar training but did use the M-16 rifle..which produced a double fed on my first ambush.. another time needed to use a m-72 law ...it failed to fire. Although.... My machete worked flawlessly 😅😅😅
Not mentioned, but should be, is the Stoner 63 modular weapon system machine gun/automatic assault rifle chambered in 5.56 mm. It saw limited use by the Special Forces and Navy Seals and they loved its firepower. It was designed by Eugene Stoner and manufactured by the Cadillac Gage Corp.
Ya know, one guy I know swears by the Stoner, says he was with the 6th Marines at Lejuene in '65 and qualified with it on the range, went to RVN, had nothing good to say about the M-16
And had far better range and killing power. Would shoot through brush and other obsticals much better. But it's most effective when the guy holding it is a marksman and not a near spray and prey grunt. IMHO the only real world in use advantage the m16 had was lower weight. But I'd still rather have m14 Or a m16 gerand for that matter.
@@scottmurphy650 You were there, and you carried an M-14? I was there, and you don't know $#!T about being in RVN and carrying an M-14! RVN '66-'67 1st Mar Div. 0311
The main reason the M16 was shipped without cleaning kits was: the ammunition first being used by American soldiers was stick powder. At the time, stick powder burned cleaner meaning the rifle didn’t need to be cleaned as often. That all changed when President Nixon’s cabinet got involved. They discovered ball powder was cheaper to produce than stick powder. So they decided to change to ball powder just to save money, but never to the soldiers in the about the change. Causing jamming while in battle. Which in turn caused more casualties.
Was a medic but carried an M-16. Medical supplies were carried inside the Flak. A few medics carried the 1911. Medics in Vietnam did NOT wear crosses on their arm or helmet.
My Bat commander had a Stoner 63 in Nam. My first year in the Army was in 93. He had it hanging in his office. The trigger and receiver had lots of damage on it. A certificate was next to the Stoner 63. It was for a silver star. A b40 rocket killed the guy in front of my Bat commander in Nam. Part of the b40 rocket hit his stoner. It saved his life..
I have 2 Remington 870s & 1 Remington 1100. I absolutely love them! You forgot that they were also used by the Tunnel Rats. The amount of care that the 870s needed was miniscule to the M-16. Whenever we were out on patrol & we came to an RP or whatever, I had my men clean & swab their 16s as well as me doing mine. The 16 doesn’t need much cleaning, just enough to clear out the gunk in the firing mechanism. And.... "can you see the light?" "I see the light!"
It didn't have such a high rate of fire, the German MG-42 far exeeded it,with the supply problems that came along with it, so the real ravenous pig was the MG- 42 chewing through 8mm Mauser! It was sensible to give the M- 60 a lower cyclic rate, the Germans opted for the high cyclic rate because they knew they were going to face a vastly numerically superior enemy esp on the Ostfront, their machine pistol MP- 40 had a substantially slower cyclic rate 500-550 rpm than the ppsh used by the Soviets, 900rpm, but the individual soldier was less burdened with ammo carry.Everything is always a trade off sometimes a high cyclic rate was advantageous and sometimes not so much!
@@janmale7767 German doctrine in WW2 was the riflemen were primarily responsible for protecting the MG crew-who did the most damage. This was because the main rifle of the Wehrmacht was the bolt-action Mauser. US doctrine was the LMG tied down enemy forces while the M1 Garand equipped infantry got into position to advance forward. The semi-auto Garand was much more formidable than the Mauser and put up a much greater rate of fire. US LMGs/HMGs had a lower rate of fire accordingly.
I’m still waiting for someone to make a video about how the 60s and 70s were similar to the 2010s In terms of how American Society and Media was effected
I served in the US Army in the early to mid 90's and we still used about half of these weapons. The M203 was so much fun to shoot even if it made my M16 heavy.
My moms cousin was,a green beret in nam. Was captured twice, escaped both times. To quote him "i used charlies weapons against him" sadly he is very sick with ptsd and other health issues. I have mad respect for him. Hes a certified bad@$$ in my book.
XM177 Commando is another example for the war, and the prototype of the iconic M4 Carbine series. That said, the jamming with this weapon is worse than the M16, to the point where you had to take two cartridge out of the weapon, especially with the 30 round mag. That said, the XM177E2 Commando was a much improvement over the original E1.
It's amazing that modern AR pattern rifles are basically the same as they were using in Vietnam. Genius design from stoner. The stoner 63 was genius too.
Those of smaller stature often traded their heavy battle rifles for the M1/M2 carbine. This started in WW2, especially in the jungles of the South Pacific islands. The M2 is not very controllable in full auto because of it's very light weight. The GI 30 round magazines were also prone to jamming in semi-auto fire as I have seen in my own GI M1 Carbine.
In basic and advance training, there were a number of weapons I was trained on, including a bazooka, as well as various explosives, such as C4. In Vietnam, due to my assignment, I only had a. 45, but later discovered a grease gun in a small attic space over my bunk bed. I used to go out shooting practice with a couple of CIA guys who trained and were responsible for a small contingency of montagnards, who were an elite, for a lack of another word, elimination team. Occasionally, I would fly as a gunner on a chopper with a. 50 cal machine gun, into LZs, as well as a midnight rescue into Cambodia. Unfortunately, as I came back from an R&R, I learned that a Special Forces colleague of mine and his interpreter were ambushed and were killed on a road I used to travel quite often alone. After that, a .45 was insufficient, so I packed a couple of frags with me all the time. Returning to the States I will agree that we weren't all that welcomed, especially in uniform and changing planes to get back to Bragg. Most of us were drafted, not necessarily interested in being in the military, nor going to war.
After reading sevral SOG books including the one that focusing on their weapons, gear and tactics I always thought the Swedish K and the M3 were some of the coolest. Frankly I would take an m3 over a Thompson
A lot of m16 problem was army supply ignored the powder that was speced for it by stoner (air force didn't have half the issues using it) and used another powder that fouled more. There was a whole lot of bs in brass who were not fans of m16 or 5.56
m16 s 1st version caused problems causing more casualty bec of the malfunctions many troops either keep there m14s or grab a enemy weapon to defend there positions
YOU don't get to choose to keep your M-14 when you are issued an M-16, you get to turn over your M-14, all the magazines that go with it, all the ammo that goes with it, then you get issued an M-16, 5 magazines, and cardboard boxes of ammo for the matty matel special, anyone who says different is full of it, I was there '66-'67 1st Mar Div. where were you? I bought a 1911 .45, off an ARVN for $50 MPC, with two magazines, and a holster for it. And that was after about a month with the M-16, before the change over, "we", did not have any idea that it was a POS, no one did, anybody tells you different is full of it.
11:53 A shotgun is one of the most successful rifles of all time. When you don't know jack sh** about firearms, things like this get said; even though the video as a whole was very informative.
The truth to the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And they appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. In 1975, the Democrats control congress cuts off funds to all US promise military aids to South Vietnam causing the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for starting the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam
Proof of videos leading to the Vietnam War on RUclips video and see/ listen yourself. 1) LBJ Admits assassinating Diem (1967) 2) JFK Speak of Diem Coup -Whitehouse Tapes Assassination. 3) Lyndon Johnson -Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. 4) Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Incident. 5) LBJ announce Vietnam increase and rise in draft. 6) Violent racism during peaceful protests in the Civil Rights Movement. 7) President Lyndon Johnson using the N word. 8) The Truth about the Vietnam War (PragerU) 9) US bombing civilian village, actual footage 10) US troops spray Agent Orange from riverboat in Vietnam. Look up the bio Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. The South Vietnamese President that US President JF Kennedy place as President of South Vietnam after he had the former South Vietnamese catholic President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his younger brother, Ngô Đình Nhu killed. Ngô Đình Diệm was appointed by Vietnam emperor Bao Dai Nguyen and France and United States agreed to stay and support him to establish a Democratic South Vietnam. But that later change when a young Democrat name John F Kennedy became US President and his Vice President LB Johnson became America Commander in Chief.
Its really not right that our veterans weren't greeted like heroes when returning home from Vietnam. They helped to increase the chances of freedom overthere higher up. True that our country, America, had no offical reason to b there. But we were helping out with the problems overs there. Its called "Doing what's right. When u have the means and sincere reasons for it".
"Doing what's right" usually means geo-political power and Big Business contracts, but if you wanna call it The Ever-glowing Torch of Freedom, knock yourself out brother.
Was that actually an M60 Rambo was firing in the end of the Rambo: First Blood 2? I know it looks very much like it but I thought there was a similar gun that was almost identical to the m60 that was also fromthe Vietnam era and mounted on Hueys sometimes. Possibly a Mag58?
@@boondocker7964 everyone older than 40 in Europe knows it as we all had to do mandatory service. It is the name, LAW is an American acronym. I served for 28 years and only GI's used the term LAW.
@@boondocker7964 it was simple and easy to use but much too vulnerable for some situations. Add that the usefulness went down over the last decade of use and we had to switch. The Panzerfaust replaced it as the Spike replaced the Carl Gustav. Just a matter of becoming obsolete. And with the draft being suspended we needed more versatile weapons that could cost more. For bunker busting they would still be useful but armour is too thick for it.
We still use the M72 LAW, be it in modernised form, in the Finnish Defence Forces. In basic traing, every conscript is taught how to use the weapon. I had the opportunity to fire a life one at a T-26 at a range. Unfortunately, the rocket didn't fly true. It struck an embankment, a metre or so beneath the tank.
Let’s also remember that the US only entered the conflict because France’s colonization of Vietnam wasn’t going well… Sure, the cover story was something about “communism and a children’s toy”, but it was purely about economic considerations (probably closer to economic exploitation if we’re still being honest). Those facts take nothing away from the service people who served, my displeasure sits entirely with the government. Funny how that’s not at all how it was represented to the public, nor does it resemble what I was taught in history class…
The M-16A1 with a extended, 30-round magazine is the sexiest rifle ever used anywhere at any time. This is the one I'd trust my life to. But then, I am heavily "brainwashed."
So American Brand weapons used against Vietnam war.but i used mostly these weapons like M79 grenade launcher M60,M3 or mp40 Greece weapon in battle Royale Games 😂😂
@@boondocker7964 My late father was a pilot during the Korean war and carried a M1911. They were told to always save the last round for themselves if shot down, the North Koreans were not known for their charitable treatment of captured pilots. At any rate, when my father turned in his gun at the end of his tour the armorer discovered it had a broken firing pin and was not functional! He had never fired it-only during his training at Boot Camp and that was ANOTHER pistol!
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They forgot the 81mm mortar. I carried the base plate, tube and rounds separately. I was with the 23rd infantry
Sounds like you carried a heavy load
Welcome Home!
All of these weapons are individual (though the M60 was considered crew served) _direct fire_ weapons. Mortars are indirect fire weapons and are not easily portable,
Thank you for your service
I was Field artillery US Army 2/77FA light artillery from 2014 to 2017 thank you for your service brother. I carried the base plate and many many many 105mm rounds and yes mortar rounds are heavy too I'm sure. Thank you for your service brother ❤ God bless you brother ❤
I was a Marine in Vietnam in 1968. Trained as an 0311( rifleman) and 0341 (81 mm motorman) prior to being sent to Nam...never used the mortar training but did use the M-16 rifle..which produced a double fed on my first ambush.. another time needed to use a m-72 law ...it failed to fire. Although.... My machete worked flawlessly 😅😅😅
@@joesteele7514 you the man. Take care
Not mentioned, but should be, is the Stoner 63 modular weapon system machine gun/automatic assault rifle chambered in 5.56 mm. It saw limited use by the Special Forces and Navy Seals and they loved its firepower. It was designed by Eugene Stoner and manufactured by the Cadillac Gage Corp.
Ya know, one guy I know swears by the Stoner, says he was with the 6th Marines at Lejuene in '65 and qualified with it on the range, went to RVN, had nothing good to say about the M-16
Less efficient M-14? Well, at least it worked 24/7, RVN '66-'67, 1st Mar Div. 0311
And had far better range and killing power. Would shoot through brush and other obsticals much better. But it's most effective when the guy holding it is a marksman and not a near spray and prey grunt. IMHO the only real world in use advantage the m16 had was lower weight. But I'd still rather have m14
Or a m16 gerand for that matter.
One of the biggest problems was the wood stock which used to swell or rot in the humid jungle environment.
@@scottmurphy650 You were there, and you carried an M-14? I was there, and you don't know $#!T about being in RVN and carrying an M-14! RVN '66-'67 1st Mar Div. 0311
@@boondocker7964lmao I was there with my trusty stick VNM 1962-1965
@@PiLLoWHanDs267 Where and when?
The main reason the M16 was shipped without cleaning kits was: the ammunition first being used by American soldiers was stick powder. At the time, stick powder burned cleaner meaning the rifle didn’t need to be cleaned as often. That all changed when President Nixon’s cabinet got involved. They discovered ball powder was cheaper to produce than stick powder. So they decided to change to ball powder just to save money, but never to the soldiers in the about the change. Causing jamming while in battle. Which in turn caused more casualties.
Or Was it the ordnance boards anti m16 tactic.
You have it backwards! The ball powder was used first, the carbon build up was horrific.
@@jamespeterson4465 thank you for your comment
Wrong powder and non-chrome lined barrels.
@@jamespeterson4465 CORRECT.
Was a medic but carried an M-16. Medical supplies were carried inside the Flak. A few medics carried the 1911. Medics in Vietnam did NOT wear crosses on their arm or helmet.
My Bat commander had a Stoner 63 in Nam. My first year in the Army was in 93. He had it hanging in his office. The trigger and receiver had lots of damage on it. A certificate was next to the Stoner 63. It was for a silver star. A b40 rocket killed the guy in front of my Bat commander in Nam. Part of the b40 rocket hit his stoner. It saved his life..
I have 2 Remington 870s & 1 Remington 1100. I absolutely love them! You forgot that they were also used by the Tunnel Rats. The amount of care that the 870s needed was miniscule to the M-16. Whenever we were out on patrol & we came to an RP or whatever, I had my men clean & swab their 16s as well as me doing mine. The 16 doesn’t need much cleaning, just enough to clear out the gunk in the firing mechanism. And.... "can you see the light?" "I see the light!"
The M60 was called the pig because of how much ammo it would eat.
It didn't have such a high rate of fire, the German MG-42 far exeeded it,with the supply problems that came along with it, so the real ravenous pig was the MG- 42 chewing through 8mm Mauser! It was sensible to give the M- 60 a lower cyclic rate, the Germans opted for the high cyclic rate because they knew they were going to face a vastly numerically superior enemy esp on the Ostfront, their machine pistol MP- 40 had a substantially slower cyclic rate 500-550 rpm than the ppsh used by the Soviets, 900rpm, but the individual soldier was less burdened with ammo carry.Everything is always a trade off sometimes a high cyclic rate was advantageous and sometimes not so much!
Not nearly as much as an M240B eats.
@@janmale7767 German doctrine in WW2 was the riflemen were primarily responsible for protecting the MG crew-who did the most damage. This was because the main rifle of the Wehrmacht was the bolt-action Mauser. US doctrine was the LMG tied down enemy forces while the M1 Garand equipped infantry got into position to advance forward. The semi-auto Garand was much more formidable than the Mauser and put up a much greater rate of fire. US LMGs/HMGs had a lower rate of fire accordingly.
I’m still waiting for someone to make a video about how the 60s and 70s were similar to the 2010s
In terms of how American Society and Media was effected
Why wait ? Make it yourself then I can wait for you .
I served in the US Army in the early to mid 90's and we still used about half of these weapons. The M203 was so much fun to shoot even if it made my M16 heavy.
My moms cousin was,a green beret in nam. Was captured twice, escaped both times. To quote him "i used charlies weapons against him" sadly he is very sick with ptsd and other health issues. I have mad respect for him. Hes a certified bad@$$ in my book.
@@7thsonofa7thson80 hogwash
@garypiont6114 ok rambo.
@@garypiont6114 gee a random person on the Internet says hogwash, how will i ever recover, oh wait, I already have.
@7thsonofa7thson80 ha ha . Have a good day
MAC-SOG mad respect
XM177 Commando is another example for the war, and the prototype of the iconic M4 Carbine series. That said, the jamming with this weapon is worse than the M16, to the point where you had to take two cartridge out of the weapon, especially with the 30 round mag. That said, the XM177E2 Commando was a much improvement over the original E1.
There was no need to down load any magazines with either the M16 or XM177..SOG found the XM177 to be very reliable..
This showed more Winchester and Ithaca shotguns in use than Remington 870s.
And a couple Savage pump shotguns.
Yep, Stevens, Savage, Ithaca, and a Winchester.
Only one pic of a Remington 870.
Agreed.
I noticed a few photos also.
Another notable ones to add here would be the Stoner 63, The CAR-15 and the China Lake pump-action grenade launcher.
Feel like those weapons were more utilized by Spec ops, the Stoner and China lake were used by Seal teams. The CAR-15 was employed by SOG Recon teams.
Yes!
Please next video must be on soviet used weapons in Afghanistan. Because it was soviet's Vietnam . I been watching your channel since 2019❤
It's amazing that modern AR pattern rifles are basically the same as they were using in Vietnam. Genius design from stoner. The stoner 63 was genius too.
This is not too bad for a drive-by look at some Vietnam war weapons. The checkered story of the M-16 alone could fill volumes, and has.
a vet told me that the M16 failed because of the ammo. not the rifle
I also magazine used also problems as well...16a2 worked well the desert but needed cleaning..
It was a delicate rifle. Pantyhose were Stronger.
@@garypiont6114 It was much more accurate than the AK-47 but you had to keep it clean.
@pimpompoom93726 if you watch news from the time there was no time for aiming. Pray and spray was mormal. If it didn't jam.
Thank you for the video
I had a 1911 .45 ACP, a medical kit and 3 months Corpsman training.
The M-16 was a difficult weapon to keep clean.
The M-1 & M-2 carbines were also used, not only by South Vietnamese troops...
VC carried them, big time.
Those of smaller stature often traded their heavy battle rifles for the M1/M2 carbine. This started in WW2, especially in the jungles of the South Pacific islands. The M2 is not very controllable in full auto because of it's very light weight. The GI 30 round magazines were also prone to jamming in semi-auto fire as I have seen in my own GI M1 Carbine.
@@loboheelerBull -hit m2 in full-auto you can keep all 27 rounds in a eight” group
Swedish K was probably not widely used but deserved a spot. Great vid anyways!
Right, along with Ray ban sunglasses
In basic and advance training, there were a number of weapons I was trained on, including a bazooka, as well as various explosives, such as C4. In Vietnam, due to my assignment, I only had a. 45, but later discovered a grease gun in a small attic space over my bunk bed. I used to go out shooting practice with a couple of CIA guys who trained and were responsible for a small contingency of montagnards, who were an elite, for a lack of another word, elimination team.
Occasionally, I would fly as a gunner on a chopper with a. 50 cal machine gun, into LZs, as well as a midnight rescue into Cambodia. Unfortunately, as I came back from an R&R, I learned that a Special Forces colleague of mine and his interpreter were ambushed and were killed on a road I used to travel quite often alone. After that, a .45 was insufficient, so I packed a couple of frags with me all the time. Returning to the States I will agree that we weren't all that welcomed, especially in uniform and changing planes to get back to Bragg. Most of us were drafted, not necessarily interested in being in the military, nor going to war.
Preferred the M14 with automated switch when guarding the perimeter in a stationery Bunker.
Both my grandfather and dad carried an M14 in Vietnam.
you forgot the thompson machine gun even though it wasn’t issued often it was still there
So few they weren't even worth mentioning
They fought for FREEDOM and DEMOCRATHY
You forgot to mention the XM177 aka the Colt 723 or CAR-15. It's the shorten version of the M16 most used by US Special Forces Green Beret in Vietnam.
Love the great history
About the M60, yes the belt fed system are similar, but not the barrel quick change system. MG 42 use a total diffent system.
The feed tray and open bolt design stolen from the mg42
The m 60 is the only weapon that kept kommies at bay and saved all units.
After reading sevral SOG books including the one that focusing on their weapons, gear and tactics I always thought the Swedish K and the M3 were some of the coolest. Frankly I would take an m3 over a Thompson
@@brewcitymike1 reading does not mean truth.
The army reserves in Australia,Syd University regiment, was a combination of Vietnam era weapons a d 1990a cams ,and modern day larger.
A big part of it was the ammunition was wrong for the gun
A lot of m16 problem was army supply ignored the powder that was speced for it by stoner (air force didn't have half the issues using it) and used another powder that fouled more. There was a whole lot of bs in brass who were not fans of m16 or 5.56
m16 s 1st version caused problems causing more casualty bec of the malfunctions many troops either keep there m14s or grab a enemy weapon to defend there positions
YOU don't get to choose to keep your M-14 when you are issued an M-16, you get to turn over your M-14, all the magazines that go with it, all the ammo that goes with it, then you get issued an M-16, 5 magazines, and cardboard boxes of ammo for the matty matel special, anyone who says different is full of it, I was there '66-'67 1st Mar Div. where were you? I bought a 1911 .45, off an ARVN for $50 MPC, with two magazines, and a holster for it. And that was after about a month with the M-16, before the change over, "we", did not have any idea that it was a POS, no one did, anybody tells you different is full of it.
Mostly from using different powder in the ammo and economy mods. Lack of a chrome chamber.
11:53 A shotgun is one of the most successful rifles of all time. When you don't know jack sh** about firearms, things like this get said; even though the video as a whole was very informative.
Yep. I caught that too.
The truth to the Vietnam War that was never fully told. United States had No intention of winning the Vietnam War from the very beginning. Fear it might become like the Korean War with mass continuing Communist Chinese troops from China pouring against American military force in Vietnam. And the threat of a thermal nuclear War with the Soviet Union. The Vietnam War started during the Civil Rights movement and racial tension between whites and blacks all across America. Several members in the US government were segregationist and they had their eyes dumping their Blacks problem on Vietnam with the chaos that was happening in Vietnam at that time between Communist North Vietnam and South Vietnam. At that time, the South Vietnamese had 250,000 troops and North Vietnamese had 60,000 troops and the DMZ line had already been establish at the 17th parallel. Many Vietnamese peoples from both North and South did Not support going to War and killing each other over the idea of Communist. Even though several North and South Vietnamese leaders believe Vietnam should Not be divided and try to distrupt one another. But they couldn't rally enough support among the Vietnamese peoples in Vietnam to support going to War. Until Nov. 2, 1963 When JF Kennedy and LB Johnson order his CIA to stage a military coup assasination on a catholic South Vietnamese President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. This give America the power to do what ever they want to Vietnam and to the Vietnamese peoples. And they appointed an ex-Vietminh soldiers for Ho Chi Minh, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as their puppet South Vietnamese President. The South Vietnamese President who cause the lives of 500,000 South Vietnamese troops killed or capture by the North Vietnamese army and their communist allies The Pathet Lao army, and the Communist Khmer Rouge army of Cambodia when he order them to be station and patrol in Kampuchea. And who told Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to do so? The United States, fear more Americans troops will be killed in Kampuchea. 20 days after the military coup assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his young brother Ngô Đình Nhu. US President JF Kennedy was assasinated in Dallas, TX on Nov 22, 1963 and LB Johnson was sworn in as the 36th US President. On Aug 10, 1964, US President LB Johnson declare US military action to Vietnam over an alleged attack on a US destroyer, Maddox that was on patrol past the 17th parallel near Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. While supporting the South Vietnam. 500,000 US ground troops was sent to fight in Vietnam. 40% of those US troops that were sent to fight in Vietnam were adult blacks male along with high school drop out white male, non-college white male, trouble teen white male, and white convict male were all sent to fight in Vietnam. And when these US troops arrive in Vietnam and they did their "Search and Destroyed mission." The Communist North Vietnam gain mass support for their cause and their army grew from 60,000 troops to over 1,000,000 troops. In 1975, the Democrats control congress cuts off funds to all US promise military aids to South Vietnam causing the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Thus began a mass flow of Vietnamese refugee fleeing out of Vietnam. 10 of thousands of Vietnamese refugee died at sea from hunger, thirst, illness, Thai pirates, and Chinese warships. Today over 100's of thousands young South Vietnamese childrens are born of birth defect from the US toxic biological chemical, Agent Orange which the US military spray all over rivers and forest of South Vietnam. 3,000,000 innocent Vietnamese civilians of women, childrens, and old peoples had to die in their country during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War is the worse United States War Crime in history. From Truman, JF Kennedy and LB Johnson were all were WWI and WWII veteran who sent the next young American men to become killers. Why I post this is because for years I'm tired Americans use Vietnam War as a Propaganda War story. Telling peoples that they there to help South Vietnam fight against communist North Vietnam. When America is the root cause for starting the Vietnam War and the Fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam
Proof of videos leading to the Vietnam War on RUclips video and see/ listen yourself.
1) LBJ Admits assassinating Diem (1967)
2) JFK Speak of Diem Coup -Whitehouse Tapes Assassination.
3) Lyndon Johnson -Report on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.
4) Whistleblower John White on Gulf of Incident.
5) LBJ announce Vietnam increase and rise in draft.
6) Violent racism during peaceful protests in the Civil Rights Movement.
7) President Lyndon Johnson using the N word.
8) The Truth about the Vietnam War (PragerU)
9) US bombing civilian village, actual footage
10) US troops spray Agent Orange from riverboat in Vietnam.
Look up the bio Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. The South Vietnamese President that US President JF Kennedy place as President of South Vietnam after he had the former South Vietnamese catholic President, Ngô Đình Diệm and his younger brother, Ngô Đình Nhu killed. Ngô Đình Diệm was appointed by Vietnam emperor Bao Dai Nguyen and France and United States agreed to stay and support him to establish a Democratic South Vietnam. But that later change when a young Democrat name John F Kennedy became US President and his Vice President LB Johnson became America Commander in Chief.
@@BinhLe-bz2eu OK comrade, simmer down.
Make that 1:29 for a better view of the M16A2
Real good ,honest ,program.
Its really not right that our veterans weren't greeted like heroes when returning home from Vietnam. They helped to increase the chances of freedom overthere higher up. True that our country, America, had no offical reason to b there. But we were helping out with the problems overs there. Its called "Doing what's right. When u have the means and sincere reasons for it".
That we can both agree on.
"Doing what's right" usually means geo-political power and Big Business contracts, but if you wanna call it The Ever-glowing Torch of Freedom, knock yourself out brother.
Read up My Lai massacre. American soldiers were monsters
The US government failed everyone. It's people, South East Asia, and especially their soldiers.
Yeah, keep telling yourself that.
I carried the M-79 with H.E a perfect weapon for jungle fighting Much better than the TONKA/Matel. 4th div. RECON.
1:32 Video shows the M16A2, which was NOT used in Vietnam.
Back to infantry training, but without actual personal firing of each. But I still had a bazooka (pre lawws).
THEY’RE IN THE TREES!!!!!!!!
Sometimes they were.
Most of the shotguns that were shown were Ithaca mod. 37
you sure showed a whole lot of pictures of the Ithaca 37 while talking about the Remmington 870. just saying.
Biggest fan of Colt M16A1 rifle
How can you not love the 870?
Because it's a Remington
@ All mine are well aged. New stuff? Meh.
I miss this voice. This is the of the interesting facts
War means a lot of money for someone.
But you ain't the "Fortunate Son"!
You forgot about the car15 and the sonerlmg
What about the modified M-60 machine gun with the ammo can added on the bottom used by the SEALS. A kind of precursor to the Stoner 62.
M16 weapon got problem during Vietnam War,always jammed
And then they fixed it.
Was that actually an M60 Rambo was firing in the end of the Rambo: First Blood 2? I know it looks very much like it but I thought there was a similar gun that was almost identical to the m60 that was also fromthe Vietnam era and mounted on Hueys sometimes. Possibly a Mag58?
Yep, M60E3 in Rambo First Blood Part II. The US used the first iteration of the M60 in Vietnam. No Mag58 usage by the US as far as I know.
Hi from Australia mag 58 looks totally different to m60..I was qualified on both
The shotguns photos shown in the video are NOT Remington 870s, they are all ITHACA M37s.
CAR 15 ? And Stoner ?
Did the M-16 have the forward assist then?
Yes it did.
7 dot 62 lol
Robo voice has spoken!
We used the M-72 up until the middle of the nineties. It was replaced by the Panzerfaust 3.
Why don't you tell everybody what it was/is? It's the LAW.
@@boondocker7964 everyone older than 40 in Europe knows it as we all had to do mandatory service. It is the name, LAW is an American acronym. I served for 28 years and only GI's used the term LAW.
@@jacksonteller1337 I found it very much to my liking, don't know what you guys thought.
@@boondocker7964 it was simple and easy to use but much too vulnerable for some situations. Add that the usefulness went down over the last decade of use and we had to switch. The Panzerfaust replaced it as the Spike replaced the Carl Gustav. Just a matter of becoming obsolete. And with the draft being suspended we needed more versatile weapons that could cost more. For bunker busting they would still be useful but armour is too thick for it.
We still use the M72 LAW, be it in modernised form, in the Finnish Defence Forces. In basic traing, every conscript is taught how to use the weapon. I had the opportunity to fire a life one at a T-26 at a range. Unfortunately, the rocket didn't fly true. It struck an embankment, a metre or so beneath the tank.
Who came up with the pic with the soldier with the M-14 and th soldier with no mid section holding the M-16 in the same picture???
I want a shirt, to read, " Born to Luge"
Where's the Browning M2 🤔
Let’s also remember that the US only entered the conflict because France’s colonization of Vietnam wasn’t going well… Sure, the cover story was something about “communism and a children’s toy”, but it was purely about economic considerations (probably closer to economic exploitation if we’re still being honest). Those facts take nothing away from the service people who served, my displeasure sits entirely with the government. Funny how that’s not at all how it was represented to the public, nor does it resemble what I was taught in history class…
Interesting, but please note, a shotgun is NOT rifle.
The M-16A1 with a extended, 30-round magazine is the sexiest rifle ever used anywhere at any time. This is the one I'd trust my life to. But then, I am heavily "brainwashed."
A4 is way better ...but I feel you
@@winnerwolf9546 You go with what you know, bro. LOL.
the picture of the men throwing the m 26 was staged for the for the press, the man in the background is my friend Larry Kasper of New Hartford NY
Weapons without cleaning kits? What were they smoking?
You need to listen up AGAIN
So American Brand weapons used against Vietnam war.but i used mostly these weapons like M79 grenade launcher M60,M3 or mp40 Greece weapon in battle Royale Games 😂😂
7 "point" 62 not 7 "dot" 62.
Where's the m1 carbine?
Idk all I read inn high school alot of 19 yr old kids lost their lives I wd definitely got my hands on m14 or I wd grabbed m1
.45 Colt M1911 anyone????
I carried one, plus my M-16, never had to use it, but, I figured that it was better than nothing.
Magnum always had one...that's actually not meant as a joke, Tom Selleck did actually serve in Nam.
@@boondocker7964 My late father was a pilot during the Korean war and carried a M1911. They were told to always save the last round for themselves if shot down, the North Koreans were not known for their charitable treatment of captured pilots. At any rate, when my father turned in his gun at the end of his tour the armorer discovered it had a broken firing pin and was not functional! He had never fired it-only during his training at Boot Camp and that was ANOTHER pistol!
lol the Remington 870 looks a lot like a Stevens m77 😂 just saying 🤷♂️
Still have mine ! Not pretty but works great -
Also apparently looks like a Savage 520, Ithaca 37, and Winchester 1912.
Only 870 I saw was that lone pic of one.
several of the pictures that claim to be remington 870 sure look like ithaca 37 shotguns
just like to ponit out every one this thnks the phto in the opening secrones is us army but its the aus army an
Stevens/Savage and Ithica shotguns are not Remington 870's. Get history right, for future generations!
"7 dot 62"?
M72
The main force kommies had more powerful weapons. the law was defective.
What no 1911 ???
No ma duece ???
Triggered
The person behind this quick dock doesn't have command of the subject that they are tackling... He doesn't know she*$@
Real
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Isn't strange 🤔 America was in Vietnam 20 years and left with its tail between its legs , and 20 years in Afghanistan 😂..
Prk
Our tail between our legs? after two decades???
Why would we do that? Can you name just one fight we lost in either Vietnam or Afghanistan?
Fun fact" in 20 years we lost 2,400 people in Afghanistan.
That's Russi's equivalent to 2 days in Ukraine..
How embarrassing..
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@@rogerout8875 both 🤔
This video might be tolerable if a human was narrating.
A human is narrating. ALL of our videos are narrated by humans. We have 3 different narrators on the channel.
And many people make this comment. I don't know if it's a criticism of the - very human - narrator or a compliment to today's robots.🧐
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BS
When you see South Vietnam troops with us weapons they are as big as themselves big trouble 😜 firing accuracy 😳 and carrying 😳 through jungles
US lost the WAR in VIETNAM, soldiers were BLACK PEOPLE.
Can you name just one fight we lost?