The Army by a large margin. At the peak of the war the Marines had one division in country, the Army had the 1st Infantry Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, the 4th Infantry Division, the 9th Infantry Division, the 25th Infantry Division, the 101st…
The US military started using camouflage fatigues in the second war, mainly in the Pacific they stopped afterwards and then started using them again in the Vietnam war. I’m not sure how widespread it was but the US Marine Corps and the US Army had t…
I was a soldier in the infantry in Vietnam, and I didn’t hate my weapon, the M16. But, depending on which part of the country you were in, it required a lot of TLC. I was in the Mekong Delta exactly 50 years ago this month, and the M16 did not take …
During the Vietnam war, navigation was extremely difficult because the jungle has extremely limited view range, so it becomes difficult to locate landmarks. In fact, there aren’t many landmarks at all. So even if sight range was further, there wasn’…
