The slick custom shotgun carried by a Navy SEAL point man in Vietnam
The dense jungles of Vietnam pushed fighting to a close-quarters environment where shotguns were highly effective.
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These exotic weapons were used by the Navy SEALs in Vietnam
Vietnam, like most wars, was a giant testing ground of weaponry, including small arms. Let’s look at those exotic, rare, and sometimes odd weapons of the Navy SEALs.
A history of American Squad Automatic Weapons
The Global War on Terror firmly established the value of a Squad Automatic Weapon, and the SAW is not going anywhere anytime soon. While the future is uncertain, the SAW remains a crucial weapon for suppressive fire. A Squad Automatic Weapon is a long gun designed to lay down suppressive fire and be organic […]
Inside the recovery of MIA Americans from a secret jungle base
A team of scientists trained at the U.S. Marine Mountain Warfare Training Center to prepare for their search for missing Americans.
How B-52 Bombers shot down enemy fighter jets in Vietnam
There is more than meets the eye with the 70-year old B-52.
Celebrating the highest military honor in the US
First established in 1862, a year before the Civil War, the Medal of Honor and how it can be earned, has changed over time.
More than missing guns: Why America lost dogfights over Vietnam
After dominating the skies over Korea, American pilots struggled to win dogfights over Vietnam. So what went wrong?
MACV-SOG: THE COVERT SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIT YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
If a conflict in U.S. history ever came with baggage, it has to be the Vietnam War. Although the service and actions of the millions of Americans who fought in Southeast Asia have been slowly recognized, the unpopularity of the war at the time, and for many years after, left a scar in American society. […]
ST IDAHO: THE SPECIAL FORCES TEAM THAT VANISHED IN THE JUNGLE
Southeast Asia, May 1968. A special operations team inserted into Laos for a covert operation. The men of ST Idaho, two Americans and four South Vietnamese indigenous troops, were tasked with locating enemy forces and activity in the A Shau Valley, close to the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The Tet Offensive earlier that year had caught U.S. […]
CSM JACK JOPLIN, CELEBRATED DELTA FORCE WARRIOR, DIES AT 82
Command Sergeant Major Jack G. Joplin, a legendary Army Special Forces and Delta Force operator who participated in two of the most famous rescue operations in special operations history has died. CSM Joplin passed away last week at the age of 82. Joplin spent more than three decades in the Army and continued to serve […]
4 REASONS THE B-52 IS WAY COOLER THAN YOU THOUGHT
America’s Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, sometimes referred to as the BUFF, has been around for a long time. As one of America’s three heavy-payload strategic bombers and one of only two bombers capable of deploying nuclear weapons, the mighty BUFF represents the nation’s nuclear triad’s most prominent airborne leg. If the world were going to end […]