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Vietnam Gun Trucks
Horse Plains Drifter
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Those are good ones.
Interesting video....thanks.
great video thanks for sharing
seems during war people getting the butts shot off can be very creative like the WWII tanks they put "blades " on to push thru the hedge rows and I sure countless other ways not so much know some from our posters i am sure
just another way the American military GI joe and Janes makes me proud of them , thank all of you who have served
My clerk's Brother was a transport driver in Nam in the late 60's. We talked in depth about the "gun trucks" and how things were built and modified. He was particularly impressed by how the M-2 could eat up trees and logs used for cover by the g00ks.
Thanks for posting!
Martha Raye - otherwise knows as Colonel Maggie by her beloved Special Forces troops - had her own gun truck. She was known to travel around Vietnam on her own, visiting even the most remote and dangerous Special Forces camps, and to keep her safer, the SF guys made a gun truck her "limo."
I just missed meeting her. I rotated home early and she came to Ban Me Thuot East Field a week later. A truly wonderful woman, and we all loved her.
They made them in Iraq. I saw a Military dump truck with a BRDM hull in the back and a M2 on a ring mount on the BRDM.
Here are some
http://www.radiodixie.cz/clanek/bizarre-american-gun-trucks-in-iraq
Great story! I have never heard of these trucks.
We had two of them at BMT. The gates and watch towers all had mounted M-2s, but all those were assumed to be pre-targeted for mortar fire if and when the NVA attacked. The gun trucks were mobile and could be quickly moved to any point on the perimeter where heavy fire was needed - and they'd likely survive the first barrage, unlike the others.
Yeah, I bet the Vietcong were surprised the first time they ambushed a convoy of gun trucks. They are firing AKs and the return fire is from a .50 Like the guy said "With the .50 we just sawed the tree in two."
HPD, thanks for the links, enjoyed the videos.
You should see what a M2 does to a person. The best way to describe is they get disassembled.
The 2nd to last Rambo movie where Rambo is in a truck shooting guys with a 50 cal is pretty close to what it looks like.
no first hand experience , I am positive some of you have life long imprints on such things to deal with , but I remember seeing video clips during one of the sand box wars , that got shared at work until the company shut them down not PC . I do not remember much about them but do recall seeing appendages flying off when the bad guys were hit with the 50 trying to hide and get picked off , I am sure DRT would be a easy guess
Neat old trucks. Pure ingenuity!
"You should see what a M2 does to a person. The best way to describe is they get disassembled."
They would certainly eat up those little wooden canoe boats the little people paddled around in. About 2-3 hits and the boat was in splinters. Most of the pintle mounts were too loose/worn for good accuracy but a 3 round burst usually stayed fairly close to point of aim if you held on tight or had the T&E connected.
A Mk19 will get the job done too.
I once had a patient in the hospital that was one of the developers of the Mk 19. He was an interesting fellow. He still did gun smith work where he lived in Kentucky.