TenMillimaster
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It was the remington 7188... I think I got that and the modded 870 mixed up. Oh well.
SOG weapons (your picks)
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JustinJ
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Reminds me of the Russian joke about the american CIA agent who parachuted into Russia after learning to speak perfect Russian and to follow all the local customs. Upon landing and hiding his chute he runs into a russian women who says "hello American". Startleds he asks, how did you know. She responds, "you're black".
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^^^ ha ha ha
Gunnerboy
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^ you mean that there is an option to have dry socks in a jungle ? man i wish i could find the dry sock vending machine when out hunting 
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Sgt. Donald Hamblen was seriously injured on a routine exercise in 1962. And though his leg was amputated six inches below the knee, he fought to stay in the Corps and passed every kind of endurance test. Training other Marines for service in Vietnam in the supersecret Studies and Observation Group (SOG) in 1965, he trained teams of Vietnamese for clandestine missions in both North and South Vietnam. Wounded twice, he served 30 unbroken months of duty. And as far as is known, he is the first and only Marine to go into combat with a prosthesis. For Donald Hamblen was a true marine who would not quit and repeatedly demonstrated that he had the courage, spirit, and self-determination to overcome all obstacles.
Was thinking about this today while at work a little bit.
Not only is Strykervet probably right about mission specific gear (I say probably because I have no experience in the military at all, let alone Vietnam, so I can't confirm it, but I definitely agree with it.), but that's what I would probably want to do, if it was an option.
Unless the job at hand called for something different, I'd probably carry, as a general rule either an FAL, AK, or an M16, and either a 1911, or Browning Hi-Power.
Then I started thinking about "secret" part of a "secret mission" and decided that there were two alternative routes:
CZ-52 and a PPSHA. They both shoot 7.62 Tokarev, which I understand to be one of the rounds commonly carried by the VC, so it wouldn't leave behind any especially distinctive shell casings.
Another option (not to make light of the topic) would be to choose firearms in the most oddball calibers you could think of, so as to leave anyone who came across the shell casings confused. Maybe 9mm Largo and that .260 Remington Fireball that the AR was originally supposed to be in....
Not only is Strykervet probably right about mission specific gear (I say probably because I have no experience in the military at all, let alone Vietnam, so I can't confirm it, but I definitely agree with it.), but that's what I would probably want to do, if it was an option.
Unless the job at hand called for something different, I'd probably carry, as a general rule either an FAL, AK, or an M16, and either a 1911, or Browning Hi-Power.
Then I started thinking about "secret" part of a "secret mission" and decided that there were two alternative routes:
CZ-52 and a PPSHA. They both shoot 7.62 Tokarev, which I understand to be one of the rounds commonly carried by the VC, so it wouldn't leave behind any especially distinctive shell casings.
Another option (not to make light of the topic) would be to choose firearms in the most oddball calibers you could think of, so as to leave anyone who came across the shell casings confused. Maybe 9mm Largo and that .260 Remington Fireball that the AR was originally supposed to be in....
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