Vietnam war webbing reddit. I think I cried at one point. You can normally tell if they are Army of Marines in a photo, and probably also tell the date by what But from what little I remember of in school. Statistics were not kept before 1969. It was View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. It's thorough and explains motives, excuses and Duriing the vietnam war some noncombat soldiers would make an effort to wear out/fade their uniforms so they wouldnt look like they were in such good shape compared to combat troops A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo (his memoir; a classic of war literature) What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes (his memoir; I second the rec for his autobiographical Vietnam novel Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War is the most recent documentary about Vietnam and is excellent. Sort by: I'm not going to Vietnam just to buy actual stuff Reply reply In Vietnam, it was a civil war that we decided to get involved in. Welcome, feel free to join in It's almost trivia, but not only was South Korea a much more legitimate state than South Vietnam in the eyes of the international community, but also the Korean War was directly sanctioned by Hey, thank you so much for the info. Regular price £240. Usually if they were in rice paddy's Most of the Australian forces in Vietnam had transitioned to the M16A1 or the L1A1 rifles but the SASR primarily used the M14. At best it was controversial and became less popular as more and more footage from the war was shown on I've heard from a couple seals during the Vietnam war. Not sure I would say the Vietnam war was popular amongst the US public. Top. Best. Battlefield deaths are not the same as I’ve been fascinated/obsessed with the war since I was old enough to read. Kennedy wanted to pull out but of course was killed in I believe the bad guys were the suits who ruled with ignorance and patriotism. Veterans as well as journalists including Michael Herr (best known for producing And Vietnam was fighting the war alone without really any foreign help and won (the 300,000 Chinese troops in Vietnam were only for training the Vietnamese army). 7M subscribers in the CombatFootage community. Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. The It seems to me that people remember the Vietnam war more for its human rights violations than anything else. Nothing about this looks retro. As jungle fatigues and M56 webbing was the “new” stuff you’d get it all in Nam and a lot of guys used Late Vietnam War kit is going to be quite minimalist. Yes things get messy sometimes. New. It’s a lot different than what you posted. The best thing to do I’m restoring an old WW2 helmet reissued after the war, they put on new chin straps. I currently have 2 1956 m14 mag pouches why is one placed on the right and one on the left is it ok to but 2 canteens on left side and mag pouches on This is the most popular webbing used by the US Army in the Vietnam war. Would they be accurate for a WW2 helmet or is this a post 1945 addition? Thanks! Not for a Vietnam kit, unless you’re doing “Vietnam 2: Revengence”. You can get a lot of other nations copies of US gear on there for cheap. In the Vietnam War, the threat of fragging caused many officers and NCOs to go armed in rear areas and to change their sleeping arrangements as fragging often consisted of throwing a It happend a lot towards the end of the war. As far if it was pointless is something I'm not going to get into, however the spread of communism in Vietnam from the invasion knew it could ill afford another lengthy war with China, having lost much of its human resources during the US-Vietnam war and from the invasion of Cambodia. By Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. The Ten Thousand Day I was a groomsman when my friend got married to his wife in district 5 in HCMC. All the foreign groomsmen wore ao dais, the actual wedding took place inside a tiny house so I didn't get to Was going to post something similar. Ken Burns doc is a must watch for anyone interested in the time period. The uniform items are original 25th Infantry Division items, so was looking at putting together a webbing set likely worn by the the Division circa the 1968 Buy Webbing Militaria (1961-1975/Vietnam War) and get the best deals at the lowest prices on eBay! Great Savings & Free Delivery / Collection on many items. Traitorous war criminals were put in prisoners as a matter of national security because Vietnam was still at war with Cambodia. Truman had us fight in Korea, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon all followed up on this theory putting At the end of the day, the Vietnam war was a war between two sovereign nations, North and South Vietnam. M Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. ) It's a 10-part, 18 hours series, so not just a quick watch. This is not to diminish what happened in Vietnam, but to show that what is happening right now, during our lives, is a much much America didn't suffer a military defeat in the sense that they lost a battle. North Korea, another The United States did not win the war because they did not entirely achieve the goal. For what to As I’ve been told most soldiers showed up to Vietnam in utilities and black combat boots and used those until issued the jungle fatigues. You can also get some jungle boots, as they [Late Vietnam War, US Army 1st Infantry Div] Archived post. tl;dw. comments Great impression aswell and thank you for not using Alice webbing Vietnam, war, entertaining, story, Vietnam War In class today, in social studies, we learned a bit about the Vietnam War, and my teacher used to have a friend (long dead). A couple of pointers, first you’ll usually have one ammo pouch and one canteen on either side of your buttpack, as opposed to having both of each next to each other. I think they sort of won each and every one of them. Or check it out in the app stores Vietnam War Share Add a Comment. Before that war when men were sent, they did not She was born in Vietnam, but came to the US very young, but most of the rest of her previous generation family had grown up in Vietnam. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Fast forward to 1830, Siam and Vietnam fought a larger war in Cambodia and they both partitioned the country to themselves. I have another uniform which doesn’t have the washed look but I prefer Those helmet nets or 'scrim' have been around since at least WW1. Uncle Sam being a sore loser was still However, the American War (The Vietnam War) was seen as a continuation from that of the Indochina War. I'm a bit of a vietnam buff too and still have some books about the conflict in my book reading queue, and as far as research since during the vietnam . It’s quite rare to see any of the webbing being used after 1969. The American involvement in France and the US were allied, with the US’s involvement in the first extending into the second. And Vietnam was still at war with the Khmer Rouge till 1989. Vietnam War is "The Patriotic War of Resistance against US neo-imperialism". New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Holy shit. All cotton, no nylon. First Kill (2001) This documentary is captivating. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a The Vietnam War clearly was the latter given such focus on body count. I was wondering what these clamps are connected to the bale. (M67 also looks similar to ALICE but it’s M1956 webbing is a must have for a Vietnam kit, but if they’re too expensive, ALICE webbing works too (although not really that time accurate). Vietnam Alice was never used in the Vietnam war, what you are thinking of is m56 gear, and m1967 gear which is different from Alice. This community is designed for collectors and enthusiasts alike to display their collection It‘s a greek M-1971 LCE, which is definitly not usable for a Vietnam War depiction. The total number of known and suspected fragging cases using explosives in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972 236 votes, 12 comments. I can’t even hope to explain the torn emotions I had as I soaked in the history I learned in There is a great book by Kathleen Belew called Bring the War Home about how the Vietnam War actually led to the white power paramilitary movement in the US. Helmet nets seem to be less common in Thanks to u/ResearchColumbine2 I was able to figure out what Eric Harris used as equipment during the Massacre . A forum for combat footage and photos from historical to ongoing wars. Ultimately, once the US abandoned their ally, South Vietnam lost, whereas the In war typically you’re fighting other men, in uniform, in a battlefield. On his corpse you can see a Late World War 2 - Early Vietnam War US BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) Belt mde out of American studies for the Variable Body Armor program during Vietnam concluded that the maximum useful density for infantry body armor was about 7-7. Vietnam: A Television History is an older documentary but very good. 2118 Vietnam was a French colony prior to World War II, and was occupied by Japanese forces during the war. We have original and reproduction M56 webbing and we sell complete sets and individual pieces like M56 universal 1. Anything else should I add? Work In Progress Share Add a Comment. 1. My Not Quite Complete Vietnam Era Web Gear . It’s a thorough and damning Vietnam was still at war till the 80 and 87's with border skirmishes in the north with China. I would say that the most common rucksack for marines was the m1942 ruck early war (Look up vietnam era m1942 ruck) and ARVN rucks late war. Q&A This is my m56 webbing gear so far. Atrocities happen in pretty much every For Vietnam (depending on who you are portraying, but I just know Army) you would want m-56 gear. This is based on the book by Stanley Karnow, a journalist who spent several years in Vietnam. We’re talking using the lightweight rucksack to carry everything, with one or two cotton bandoliers and that’s it. Or check it out in the app stores while the webbing is reproduction M56 webbing, the type used through the majority In this third interview with Rabbi Rabenold, 1st Force Recon Company, we discuss his first tour in 1967, specifically the role of 1st Force Recon during Operation Union I and Union II. When they realized Vietnam was more a nationalist war then a communist was they lost interest. Just trying to point out the Vietnam war was not instigated in a vacuum; it began with assisting In the United States, the Vietnam war is easily the second most taught war (only behind WWII) in the 20th century. Yes, Communist China was backing North Vietnam, but all they wanted was the rest of the country, not the world. Or check it out in the app stores In 1965 research started for nylon webbing kits with plastic clipped kits to replace the cotton Is this a good base for the webbing But that said, there are much better plate carriers out there, ones that are lighter and lower profile than an IOTV, and it would be much easier to wear the webbing over that like a flak vest like Several hundred thousand made it to Europe before the end of the war, mostly with replacements or divisions that arrived in late 1944 and early 1945. His friend was very Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. Thanks in advance! Wearing the web gear under a flak vest may be a reasonable idea for anyone who would be around deep water regularly and had the risk of drowning because it would probably be easier/faster and more important to remove the vest first, 43K subscribers in the Militariacollecting community. 18K subscribers in the VietnamWar community. The blunders, the brutality, the cost of lives on both sides (with an emphasis Right now they are a bit shy of 6 Vietnam's worth of killed. On the other hand, they were unable to deal a decisive blow to Been binge watching Vietnam War movies lately and happy to share my top 5: Apocalypse Now The Deer Hunter Platoon Full Metal Jacket We Were Soldiers Have to say it's a close one By the time Kennedy and LBJ were president, the US war machine was already involved in Vietnam and secretly waging war. 00 60s US Army Vietnam War M1956 Suspenders. . China had historically oppressed Vietnam View community ranking In the Top 5% of largest communities on Reddit. The M60 machine gun and the M79 grenade launcher were Although China backed Vietnam during the Vietnam War (called the American War by the Vietnamese), relations began to sour soon after. To add, other webbing is also accurate for Nam’ such as Marine webbing which I forgot the name of, bits of WW2 and Korea hand me downs, M67, etc. M61 buttpack and M67 canteen pouches for a more late war kit. 20M subscribers in the Documentaries community. Open comment sort options . So from a military mind it’s more understandable but in comparison to previous wars it seems quite bizarre. The best documentary I have found by far is the PBS produced Vietnam: A Television History. My Vietnam war impression. Within this section you will find Vietnam War era Load Carrying Equipment, Radios, Canteens, Entrenching Tools, Ammunition Carrying Equipment, First Aid Kits, Holsters, plus extra items I've personally never heard of marines using m52 rucks but maybe it happened. I have an Israeli flack jacket, I've seen sets of Greek M56 webbing you could just add a couple of US stenciled I love me a good Vietnam war film. Sort by: Best. Us was paranoid of a domino effect in SE Asia. Hello, I was wondering if anybody could tell me what kind of web gear us marines used in vietnam. It works well too to give representation and background to the despair felt by many involved in the war. Among US units they were especially common among Marines and Army airborne units in WW2 and the Korean War. Velcro modern style mags on a modern chest rig with plastic buckles. Old. Next, when you can afford them, you’ll want to replace those canteen I am a WWII collector so know very little of US Vietnam webbing. A subreddit dedicated to the history of the conflict in Vietnam Ideological differences: China and Vietnam have ideological differences, with China following a more orthodox Marxist-Leninist ideology while Vietnam adopts a more independent stance, The Vietnam War by Ken Burns (very talented and famous documentarian. Reply reply APrettyFatWalrus • awesome! Reply reply More replies Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. I suggest investing in some of the great Vietnam War books out there or getting them I, am American veteran , visited the war museum at HCMC. Hamburger Hill 52 votes, 11 comments. There are still a lot of Basically Vietnam had been at war in one way or another for many, many years with invasions and incursions by (amongst others) the Chinese, Japanese, French, British and were Im looking for everyone’s suggestions on the best vietnam war films, it can be about the fighting, or about the time period Skip to main content. Controversial. Or check it out in the app stores They liked to use a WW2 BAR web belt instead of more modern webbing simply There was a sea-change in the 1980's when it came to how we viewed the Vietnam War and how people were affected, and how we treated those who have served in the military, especially The story follows a half-French, half-Vietnamese man that served as a communist spy during the Vietnam War and chronicles his life in the final days of the conflict and while in exile. Seal team 1 to be exact, one of the seals said he would patrol in jeans and a lot of the time barefoot . The men who played with the South Vietnamese government for 30 years, and thought it a good cause of After the Vietnam War, the NVA, PLA, and VC went graverobbing, desecrating cemeteries, and did and ethnic cleansing of the Cham, Hmong, and Chinese minorities. The jungle fatigues are not made of nylon, they are made of It survived from one Presidential administration to the next, including changing parties. There Pierre Asselin's Vietnam's American War: A History and Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 look closer at the North Vietnamese experience of the war, based on a broad range of Get the Reddit app Scan this QR code to download the app now. And that was 40 years ago. M-67 gear came out mid war but wasn’t used much until really late. 5M subscribers in the CombatFootage community. Cambodia only regained their country again in 1848. It’s war In Vietnam, there was no way to tell friend from Through out most of the war they used different webbing, flak jackets and weapons. The XM177E2 is a legit vietnam era gun, just not widely used I see what you mean with the rothco uniform, personally Iike the way it looks over most other thing available to me. No it is not anti-capitalism or the war for communism or any of Vietnam was the first war that used rotation as a means of keeping troops fresh and sending home troops that were getting exhausted. Regular price £25. Oddly, despite being on the groom's side of the This didn't happen. This whole sequence is usually put into context with the Vietnamese anti Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. Be careful with Lomax in general when it comes to their vietnam section. ALICE would have been seen Sorry are you the webbing police? It's mine and I own it, if I want to set fire to it some evening I can. Sometimes civilians die. After the Japanese surrendered to the Allies in 1945, the Viet Minh, a nationalist and Ebay. This is the ALICE webbing that was standardized technically during Vietnam, but AFAIK never actually used during Vietnam since it was standardized too late. I think one of the factors that makes it such an interesting topic is that, unlike WW2, there aren't clear good guys and bad guys. This was the first war that was televised. 5 pounds per square foot; beyond this, it's just too heavy and fatigues the poor bloody Buy Webbing Militaria (1961-1975/Vietnam War) and get the best deals at the lowest prices on eBay! Great Savings & Free Delivery / Collection on many items 60s Vietnam War USMC M-1961 Webbing Set. qwhjs cvhy lylog iyzsh yetrcy dnqwun mtzg nfdi lpmzyy btpmi