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I'm allowing an ARVN translator to tag along with the survivors, if you're interested. After some extensive research, one being there seems perfectly plausible.

Can I introduce them a little bit later in the story? I feel like creating an American soldier right now.

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Can I introduce them a little bit later in the story? I feel like creating an American soldier right now.

Of course, you can do whatever you want :)

An M72 works too. I just suggested the grenade launcher because the LAW is a one-shot disposable weapon. Plus you get better anti-personnel effects with the grenades, since the LAW was primarily anti-armor and doesn't create as much shrapnel.

Oops, I meant M79.

I guess I got them mixed up or a typo or something.

@QueenOfTheBee Accepted.

Okay, I think we're ready to start.

I've got the first IC post ready... here goes!

EDIT: Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd have at it :D

I'm going to start working on my post right now. If everyone's alright with it, I'd like to get the first one in, so SFC Davis can establish some semblance of control before the fecal matter strikes the turbine.

Go for it, Sar'nt.

Alright. Posted. I figure the next several posts will be happening almost at the exact same time as Ryan's, so I ended with him commencing the battle. That way I don't have to try and throw out a two-line post saying "he threw a grenade" and then you can respond with the VC reactions once everyone's posted, @TomeBinder

Let's get some!

I'm getting some right now.

Righty'o, I'm off to bed, but I know you Americanos are awake during my twilight hours. So I've sent Han in, with his remaining nine men.

They're basically performing a very small scale human wave against the crash site, neglecting to scout the area first or anything.

I don't need to explain to you folks their vulnerability.

Awesome. Knock 'em down, folks, I'll call the unit to regroup once everybody has gotten their kicks in.

I just had Barnes shooting at a couple of cong; generally aiming at anyone that he thinks might be taking a shot at Bobby and the Pig, giving Bobby time to set 'er up.

Posting...

Edit: Posted. Bloop!

I had to replace the Winchester 1200 with the Winchester M1912, owing to the date of the RP and all that. Not much difference between the two, a trench gun's a trench gun.

Alright, I am done with my character.

Hey @Rare Not to be "That Guy", but you might should think about a different weapon? By 1967 the M1 Garand had been more or less entirely phased out for US forces. Even the M14 wasn't that common except among Designated Marksmen and some National Guard units.

@RoadRash,

I changed the gun to the M16.

Awesome posts, I'll throw another one up tomorrow. Sleep calls now.

It's easy enough to find M-14's in Vietnam in 1967, which is really the year they started converting over to M-16s, but the air cav uses the M-16 for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that they are more compact and have full automatic capability. Air Cav was using M-16's from the word go, as an experimental unit initially and one of the first combat units in (after the Marines in Da Nang).

Funny story, as the the army was sending troops into Berlin in 1960, they hastily issued the M14 to the units going in, though they were trained on the Garand and knew the weapon well, but had to hastily zero their weapons -after- arriving in Berlin at an ad hoc range at Templehof Airport, in Berlin.

So there's a similar situation going on in a lot of Vietnam where the M-14 is there and being used, but the M-16 is being issued but the troops might not be sufficiently familiar with it...especially as basic training still involves the M-14 in this era. But the Air Cav has been using it all along.

Edit: Got a post up.

Edit 2: It should also be mentioned in this era that the M-16 is still teething; the powder and primer are not appropriate to the weapon, which was an Ordnance demand that the weapon use the ammo the Army wanted rather than ammo that worked well in the weapon. There was also insufficient training on weapons cleaning, which was exacerbated by the jungle conditions of Vietnam -- the M-16 barrel was not chrome-lined initially...whereas the M-14 was. There's a reason why veterans might still be using the M-14's that they might well have been issued when they deployed in-country at this stage of the war. Many Marines particularly kicked up a fuss about losing the M-14 around this time.

Another issue is the government-issued magazines. Failure to feed and extract properly is the big problem with the M16, and part of that has to do with the quality of magazines. Most infantry of the era loaded 18 rounds or less in the 20-round magazines.

This all came out in a Congressional investigation in 1967 where they essentially asked, "Why does this wonder-weapon have such a lousy reputation in the field?"

Also, the M60, by the same standard, has its flaws as well.

Further edit: However, at this time, thanks to the work of MACV-SOG in salting enemy ammunition supplies along the Ho Chi Minh with defective ammo, enemy AK's have a chance of blowing the bolt right back into the face of the trooper. It's probably also a problem with SKS'es and RPD's which use the same round as well.