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Posted: 7/9/2018 12:10:15 PM EDT
I have been watching a lot of very interesting Veteran's Project interviews on you tube lately. It kind of seems like you could kind of decide amongst yourselves who had what weapon.
I watched this mans interview: https://youtu.be/tdUpzpIjJLg He tried and used just about everything it seems. He used LAWs to knock down trees for LZs and stuff. He said the best setup was an M60 with a door gunner barrel. He removed the bipod and did some other stuff. He never let people carry ammo pancho villa style because the Ammon would get misaligned in the links and cause jams. Seems like the M-60 was awesome if you set it up right and took care of it. But I guess the Stoner would have been better? |
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Clean, well maintained ones. MI carbines and BARs in the hands of proficient riflemen would have been adequate. The weapons were pretty irrelevant when you consider they were fielded by poorly trained draftees in most cases.
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Considering the rather close range of fighting, I would say something like a PPSh-41 actually, or one of those old M2 carbine automatics, was the MP5 around yet?
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I'd be plenty happy with an M16, or better one of the shortened XM177s if I could get one.
As long as its kept clean, they worked fine and a much better weapon than SMGs, M1 Carbines, etc. M60 is too heavy I think. |
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Something in 30-06 like a M1 Garand or BAR and 1911. They both won two world wars so a little jungle skirmish should be no problem for them.
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M16 or xm177 would be my first choices. If I had to carry a belt feeder m60 hands down.
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Full Auto 30 Carbine
M2 Carbine Full Auto Machine Gun USGI 30 Caliber - M1 |
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I'd use an AK, 'cause it could take their ammo and ours, so I'd never have to worry about running out.
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M16A1, and a 1911.
A Suomi KP-31 with drums would be a good choice, and a Stoner 63A would be good too. |
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Do people actually believe this crap, or does it just sound cool to them? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Something in 30-06 like a M1 Garand or BAR and 1911. They both won two world wars so a little jungle skirmish should be no problem for them. Realistically, I hope he's being facetious. |
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Considering the rather close range of fighting, I would say something like a PPSh-41 actually, or one of those old M2 carbine automatics, was the MP5 around yet? View Quote At the end... developed mid/late 60's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5 |
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444 Marlin if I was "Mad Dog" Shriver
12.5" 6.8 SPCII with gold dots, suppressed and with modern small footprint NVD-Thermal G20 |
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Quoted: @LittlePony At the end... developed mid/late 60's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_MP5 View Quote |
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M-16. It is lightweight and good for traveling on foot in the jungles.
Considering the way the war was run, I don't think a change in small arms would have changed the outcome. |
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A double barrel shotgun. Let a blast into the sky and scare the bad guys away!
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870
12 gauge kills trees and everything on either side. eta - lost first shotgun by 27 SECONDS |
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M16A1, MG3(MG42), BHP,
There were so many good sub-machine guns in 9mm at the time, it would be a toss up. |
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something with a short OAL for walking around that shithole jungle
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Does napalm count as a small arm? What if it's just a little bit if napalm?
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The same ones they had, except better?
So...the right ammo and twist rate for the M16, refinements to the Stoner system, whatever they did in recent years to make the E4 version of the M60...those kinds of things. Are we talking strictly period weapons? Because it would have been really nice to have pmags or lancers or other polymer mags back then... |
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Funny thing about the military. They rarely ask you what kind of equipment you want. They tell you and that's what you use.
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